Ensemble project flyer (English version)

1. Università degli Studi di Firenze
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione
e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi
Università degli Studi di Firenze http://www.unifi.it
Comune di Prato
http://www.comune.prato.it
Giunti Labs UK
http://www.giuntilabs.com
Conseil Général des Yvelines
http://www.yvelines.fr/
Centre Régional de Documentation
Pédagogique de l’Académie de Versailles
.eu
www.ensembleproject
http://www.crdp.ac-versailles.fr
The Ensemble Project was funded by the European Commission.
This web site reflects the will of just the members, and the Commission
is not to be held responsible for the information contained within it.

2. n Such multimedia resources are available on the project’s web site and are released under
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on condition that the Ensemble project is quoted as the author and that the same rights are
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maintained on the derived products.
T
he Ensemble Project sets itself the task to test the use of mobile communication tools In Prato students were given MP3 players to download the podcasts, which had to be
in fostering integration between local populations and migrants. listened to outside school. The podcasts were later discussed in class and students worked
In Prato and in the Parisian district of Yvelines, both localities with a high percentage in groups to produce new podcasts or audio presentations on the same subjects. An online
of first and second-generation immigrants, we have carried out activities for both students platform has been used both to access the multimedia content and to publish the work
and their parents in schools, where there is a high concentration of young foreigners”. produced by the students.
The project has developed educational resources, in Italian and in French, on four topics: Multimedia messages were sent to the parents’ mobile phones and several meetings for
• European citizenship the parents with their children and the teachers were organized at school. The Municipality
• Intercultural education of Prato has provided a linguistic mediator who attended the meetings and who was at the
• Being parents/Being students parents’ disposal throughout the project.
• Old and new addictions
In Yvelines the students were given small computers, notebooks, with the audio content
and in different formats: for the students and the videos for the parents.
• Audio content known as podcasts In class, the teachers started off by listening to the podcasts to suggest discussions and
• Animations sent by mobile phones other activities. Communication with the parents was through text messages and meetings
• Videos that can be viewed on the Internet at school.
• Interactive multimedia content.