This document outlines a Comenius project between 2012-2014 involving 5 schools in Europe. The project aimed to study how educational media could be used efficiently in schools. Participating schools were from Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, and Germany. Objectives included designing an intervention program to benefit students, increasing awareness of other cultures, and encouraging student motivation through active involvement in learning. Activities over the two years included online collaborative work, surveys on reading habits, and work on literature. The expected results were for students to take more responsibility for learning, improve literacy and math/science skills, and document results to share with other schools. The project included visits between participating schools.
7. OBJECTIVES
• To design and use an intervention programme
which will directly benefit the participants
• To gain an understanding and awareness of
the culture and values of their partners.
• To raise awareness of its impact on their lives
and educational experience, particularly in
relation to literacy and mathematics.
• To encourage motivation among students by
involving them more actively in their own
learning.
8. OBJECTIVES
• To build on their interest in IT/ICT to develop
learning strategies which could increase their
motivation, their literacy levels and their
interest in maths and science.
• To encourage them to suggest and use
alternative learning approaches which would
make subject content more relevant to them.
• To build up a bank of resources which can be
more widely used to benefit other students
9. ACTIVITIES
• YEAR 1 (2012-13):
- Work on language
and literature.
– Online collaborative
work in Twinspace
– Surveys on reading
habits
– Work on “A Brave
New World” by
Aldous Huxley.
– “Phrase Book” in the
languages of the
project.
YEAR 2 (2013-14):
- Work online
- Maths, science
and technology
10. EXPECTED RESULTS
• To make students more aware of their own
responsibility in the learning process.
• To make them increase their literacy as well as
mathematical and scientific levels.
• To make them more active in using, and also find out
about, and even invent themselves, different products
within the ICT/Edumedia field in their own studies.
• To document this and let the schools benefit from their
results and products in this project. * To let this be a
part of a bigger European intercultural context, together
also with schools in Ireland, Germany and Spain.
11. VISITS 2012-13
• Coordinators’ Meeting:
13-17 October
2012,Göteborg
(Sweden).
• 16-20 December 2012:
Güstrow (Germany).
• 9-13 April 2013: Dublin
(Ireland).
• 4-9 June 2013: Biella
(Italy).
12. VISITS 2013-14
• Coordinators’ Meeting:
6-10 September
2013,Vic (Catalonia,
Spain).
• December 2013:
Güstrow (Germany).
• March 2014: Dublin
(Ireland).
• June 2014: Gotteborg
(Sweden).
