Closing The Gap ιn ICT
Rationale of
this project, Needs and Objectives
The project works on strategies to
close this gap and improve ICT teaching. This improvement will be achieved
through the optimization of e-learning.
As a result we create many courses as
OER content which can be used by every school. We try to address many different
topics which are in general useful like Math,English as well as tools for
analysing general social or personal aspects (e.g. racism or drop out of
school).
Because of this we created a team
with many schools form different countries. That is our basis to include
different approaches from different countries and cultures to our topics. A
larger team guarantee a result in quantity and quality.
Closing the gap can only be successful
if we address many colleagues with our topics and methods.
Implementing an international team
raise the attention and increase the acceptance for the usage of e-learning
tools.
With the integration of these tools
in our daily work our education will be more valuable and improves the learning
quality.
Project Innovation
-Complementarity to other projects .
In one way we are continuing our
work from the previous projects. Therefore we have included former partners of
our last projects.
The aim in the last project was to
optimize the learning surrounding for students followed by creating e-learning
applications and in this project we want to establish methods and workspace to
involve more teachers.
In the other way our approach is
innovative because we include the methods with strong usage of tutoring system
for closing the ICT knowledge gap between teachers and teachers as well as
between students and students. Exemplary this is given in our project structure
in which we want to close the ICT knowledge gap between the partners.
Additionally we continuously evaluate and
directly improve our methods during
our project meetings. In this process teachers and students work closely
together.
We also focus on peer to peer
education. To underline this focus we organize one meeting special for peer to
peer education.
For spreading this knowledge with
other European schools with the mentioned interactive approach, we will
establish an European cooperation
between school partners.
Project
partners experiences and competences
General setup of our partners:
Germany -> organization, OER
dissemination
Sweden -> elearning experience
outside moodle
Romania -> administration of our
common moodle platform (accounts, design, ...)
Bulgaria -> structuring our
elearning courses for moodle
Greece -> administration of
etwinning and organizing the content
Turkey -> evaluating and
improving our content related to tablet and whiteboard usage
Poland, Italy and Lithuania ->
evaluating and improving our pear to pear content
The structure of the participating
schools correspond with structure we find in every school. There is a gap
between teachers in school (experienced /less experienced) which we also have
in our project.
In this structure we are able to
test and evaluate activities which we optimize during our project and which we
can transfer afterwards to our daily school life.
We can benefit from different needs
and special knowledge with a larger number of partners. With a total of nine
schools we also get valid results.
Topics
ICT - new technologies - digital
competences
New innovative curricula/educational
methods/development of training courses
Key Competences (incl. mathematics
and literacy) - basic skills
Expected Results
Generally expected results:
1. All partners establish e-learning
platform in their school
- more teachers in all schools use
the platform for education management
- using i-pads /Whiteboards in
lessons
- each school has teams who develop
ICT contents
2. A portfolio for e-learning in all
schools is created
- the e-learning courses are common
products in English and available for all schools
- several subjects are addressed
within our project
- creation of diagrams, graphics an
videos which can be used of all schools (as creative commons license)
3. Online diagnostic questionnaires
are used for individual support for the students
- to find risks of early school
leaving
- to find needs to work against
racism, violence, intolerance in the classes.
4. Guidelines and handouts for
ExeLearning and special features in Moodle (e.g. Test, Online diagnostics, ...)
5. General exchange of experiences
in
- cultural differences and the
different needs to analyze and handle this
- handling of e-learning
6. Strengthen of the European
dimension of cooperation
- newspaper of the project and political topics created together by our students.