Erasmus + project 2016-2018

1. ERASMUS + project
2016-1-RO01-KA219-024478_1
01.Nov. 2016 - 30.Oct. 2018

2. GENERAL KEMAL BALIKESIR
ORTAOKULU, TURKEY
ZAKLADNI SKOLA ZAMBERK,
28.RIJNA 581, CZECH REPUBLIC

3. 3RD PRIMARY SCHOOL OF
AGIOS NIKOLAOS CRETE,
GREECE
AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS
DO FORTE DA CASA, PORTUGAL

4. Liceul Tehnologic "Octavian Goga" Jibou,
Romania

5. This project will focus on:
 promoting the use of ICT in teaching
 strengthening the profile of teaching profession
through transnational cooperation, developing,
testing, implementing, sharing ideas, practices,
teaching materials and tools;
 developing students' basic skills in maths, science
and literacy
 improving collaboration with parents and other
stakeholders
 promoting a sustainable lifestyle through creative
recycling.

6. Our students have changed radically. Today's
students are no longer our educational system was
designed to teach.
Lydia Plowman (2015) suggests that children are
often very engaged by digital technology, firstly
because it is fun and secondly because succeeding in
what they do and the feeling that they can master a
challenge effectively.
Technology in the field of education is an important
tool. It is future oriented, as the future is all about
technology and education can't stay behind.

7. Our project aims to develop, test and implement
innovative and effective teaching methods using
ICT in the classroom, to increase the quality of
education, create a pleasant and safe educational
environment, promoting peer-learning, problem-
based learning, game-based-learning, which will
help to increase students' problem solving,
numeracy, digital, verbal communication skills,
critical thinking, creativity, team-working and
will improve their transition to high school.

8.  The project proposes a strong and close
collaboration among European teachers as part of
their professional development.
 Teachers will devise together innovative teaching
materials, pedagogical approaches and tools,
research, analysis, studies, which we will
implement in our school activities and make them
available on the Internet for other teachers to use
them.
 To enhance the collaboration and practise team-
teaching, to maximize peer-learning and the
sharing of good practice, teachers will devise and
lead the transnational learning and teaching
activities in pair countries.

9.  Moreover, we are aware of the fact that communication
and collaboration with parents is an essential part of
teaching.
 A child's education can be greatly enhanced by their
parents' involvement in the classroom and at home.
 Throughout the project we aim to strengthen the
cooperation with parents, through directly involving
them in our activities, workshops, seminars, parent
support groups, making them aware of the importance
of their involvement for a successful school life of their
children, offering ways of spending time with their
children and also raising their awareness on the
positive and negative sides of the digital world.

10.  Finally, environmental education is a major challenge of the
21st century. The result of a survey conducted by Euro
RSCG Worldwide (2012), shows that, in particular young
consumers (52%) believe to have wasted money on things
they don't really need.
 The aim of the creative recycling workshops is to foster
students' creativity, develop their ability to turn ideas into
action, turn them into a more responsible, global citizen.
 As many of our students are facing economic obstacles,
these workshops are a good way to teach them, that they
don't always need money to have new things. With little
effort and creativity, they can make themselves the desired
products from old materials.

11.  Our primary target group are students aged 10-
14, their teachers and parents from the
participating organizations.
 We will extend our impact as we are going to
organize workshops and fairs for the local
community, publish and make available all our
materials and outcomes, as other interested
teachers, students, parents, educational
organizations to have access to them and use
them in their work.

12.  The international dimension will expand the
horizons of our students and teachers, allowing
them to value themselves as citizens of their own
country and also of Europe.
 It is a chance to raise participants' interest in
learning about new cultures, to promote
intercultural learning and European values.
 Angela Leung, an associate psychology professor
at Singapore Management University reports, that
people with more experiences of different cultures
are better to generate creative ideas and make
unexpected links among concepts.

13. Common blog:
http://carsinthedigitalage.blogspot.ro/
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/erasmusprojectgoga
/
YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX12F0B
35V49YaTvX5yFAow
eTwinning:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/9745/home

14.  Romanian webpage:
https://digitalgoga.blogspot.ro/
 Czech webpage:
http://inthedigitalagecars.blogspot.ro/p/blog-
page_3.html
 Greek webpage:
http://3dimcarsdigital.blogspot.ro/
 Turkish webpage:
http://carsinthedigitalworld.blogspot.ro/