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Environmentally Friendly Cranberries and Innovative Tablets

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-1-LV01-KA219-022636
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 90,540 EUR

Environmentally Friendly Cranberries and Innovative Tablets

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"""Environmentally Friendly Cranberries and Innovative Tablets"" was an innovative transnational project for the students aged 13 - 16 and teachers from 5 different countries: Latvia (Rigas Igauņu pamatskola), Finland (Kiukaisten yhteiskoulu / Euran yhteiskoulu), Italy (Istituto Comprensivo della Val Nure), Poland (IV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. I Dywizji Kosciuszkowskiej) and Estonia (Võru Kreutzwaldi Kool). This was a project with the big cultural diversity in which each country brought its different experiences and competences. All the partner schools found the utmost priority to purposefully integrate non-formal learning, ICT and digital devices like smartphones and tablets with the knowledge that our students receive via formal learning. *One of the main objectives of this project was addressing an open and innovative education. Despite the fact that the schools involved in the project ""Cranberries and Tablets"" were situated in different parts of Europe, they had to tackle the same problems with the students concerning the age group 13-16. Our teenagers possess various new digital devices (smart phones, tablets etc.), but they lacked the skills for using them on educational purposes. *The second objective was closely connected with the first one and was addressing underachievement in the basic skills through more effective innovative teaching methods. As cranberries means pure natural environment around us and tablets represent innovative methods of studying, the focus of the project was put on field trips to learning sites outside the school in order to integrate formal and non-formal learning in different subjects (math, science, literacy, art, craft, English, IT). This project met the objectives set by the Erasmus+ Programme. *Specifically, the following objectives were fulfilled: 1. to provide more competence for students and teachers in ICT and to encourage using more ICT tools in everyday learning and teaching process. 2. to arouse students` interest towards basic subjects and achieve better results in them 3. to integrate formal (in classroom) and non-formal (other natural environments) learning 4. to promote teachers` and students` communication, language and cooperation skills at regional and European level 5. to supplement curricula in our school systems 6. to broaden the knowledge of natural and cultural heritage of home country and partner countries in order to learn to recognize and respect similarities and differences. *During the first project year the focus of tasks was on teaching our students how to use to make videos and sound recordings of nature using smartphones or tablets during the field trip. We also focused on teaching our teachers how to use Open Educational Resources (OER). We also organised one field trip with integrating formal and non-formal learning in different subjects (math, science, literacy, art, craft, English, IT) and some pieces of creative writing (poems, tales etc) inspired by nature was produced for eBook. *During the second project year the focus was shifted to rehearsing and performing plays based on environment, videoing the plays and having a video conference. We also organised a Photo Hunt which activities were connected with ICT. * The last year focused on one more field trip. This time we also used smartphones, tablets and ready-made apps in the nature. In the 3rd year more attention was paid to project products. Contributions of new learning resources were uploaded in Open Educational Resources and a multilingual eBook was designed, edited and uploaded in free e-books environment. eBook also contained photos made during the field trips and photos of art-work inspired by the field trips. * During project students´cultural awareness was raised (Kahoot game, learning about partner schools etc), their basic skills were improved by integrating and using innovative methodologies; their transversal skills were enhanced. Teachers professional skills were promoted. Of course the project was important also to improve all participants English language skills and using digital devices in formal and non-formal studying has become part of everyday work. Overall feedback of partners was good - project was interesting, demanded a lot of work, but as a result it made school life more interesting and gave opportunity to integrate IT and non-formal learning into learning process."

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