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The practical usage of your theoretical knowledge

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-LV01-KA201-035450
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education Funder Contribution: 165,355 EUR

The practical usage of your theoretical knowledge

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"Any learning process consists of theoretical knowledge base, practical skills and understanding of the knowledge and skills in actual use in daily work and activities. The overall level of education in the Baltic States is known as quite a good and appropriate to nowadays requirements as far as it relates to the theoretical knowledge base. According the practical skills in primary and secondary schools the situation we would like to see much better. The reason it mainly is a fact that schools don’t have enough equipped classrooms, practical equipment and raw materials to be able to provide practical examples and demonstrations for academic and theoretical knowledge in practice and everyday life. Remembering ourselves and our peers in lessons as physics, chemistry, natural sciences, economics, etc., I very well recall that during those hours one minute seemed like an hour and lessons in the end was like a relief, equivalent to sense when toothache is over ... the logical question of course is – why so? And as a logical answer there is that a student at that age and with his life experience, just don’t see the sense to learn so many complex formulas and incomprehensible algorithms, which, in his view, in real life he will never use. The situation is drastically reversed, for example, manual training and physical education classes - one reason, here the theoretical knowledge constitutes only 10%, while the rest of the lesson are practical activities that are highly attractive for such a young age pupil as 8, 9 and 10 class, which is our primary target audience of the project Our project's main goal is to – let’s give knowledge for those young people in a form and manner that they find interesting and attractive. Let’s give them arguments why they need these theoretical knowledge’s and how they will be able to practically use them in their everyday life and professional career. Our principle of this project is that we have to talk to the student in a “language and manners” that raises interest. Are there any pupils who have dreamed to become a chemistry doctor or pharmacist? Probably not ... Is there any girl who dreamed about becoming a well known super model? Is there any boy who dreamed of becoming a policeman or James Bond? It is likely that at least 99% of them did it … The question is – in what context there is physics and chemistry? In fact, the most direct - Who have not seen those videos curiosity when a beautiful model falls on the stage, as her shoe slips? So in this moment we have physics - the term ""coefficient of friction"", which means that there is not properly chosen shoe soles against the floor covering... Who have not seen the films of Hollywood - car chase scenes, but only a few people have understood that the fastest ride for a car would be with the appropriate width tires on it for a better grip on the road … These are just two of the examples that we have mentioned, but our project idea is to prepare equivalent examples in attractive video materials with detailed explanations and video films for an exciting way for students to demonstrate that the theoretical knowledge that they acquire in school has a real and practical usage in everyday life as well as it will be useful in their professional career. The project is planned to be implemented Baltic-wide with participation of members from all the Baltic countries, where all project participants have had previous experience in similar projects. During the project we will develop practical videos with real examples of the use of theoretical knowledge in everyday life situations. There will be developed guidelines for teachers on how to prepare an equivalent material in their schools by organizing student working groups – so it will become a kind of healthy competition among students (who made the best practical video) and at the same time promote their understanding of the theoretical knowledge in practical situations."

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