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Sprinkle ICT across European Curricula
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Five schools from Germany, Catalonia/Spain, Finland, Italy and Denmark will work together on the topic of water because the future of Europe will be strongly connected with this resource. Our project “Sprinkle ICT across European Curricula - SICTEC” wants to contribute to the EU's 2020 strategies, as water presents so many different fields. Among the EU's five key actions are the fields of climate change/energy efficiency and education. As these two key actions are the most relevant to schools, we come to the conclusion that we as teachers have to share our knowledge, our skills and our teaching methods in order to enhance students' learning process tackling their early school leaving and promoting lifelong learning. As a result this will facilitate their inclusion in the world of labour. Sustainable water management is a vital part of Europe´s new, greener policy. The task for the future is to keep or improve the health of our water ecosystems as they sustain our economy and finally our human existence, as "water is life“! Water is a necessity and we consider having access to sufficient clean drinking water a human right. In this project our students will become aware of being part of a union of countries, needing English as our common language. This fact has become very true in the current economic crisis. Students who are willing to be mobile and have some basic knowledge of English at the same time, have an excellent chance to have a better future. This will perfectly support the EU's key action number one of reducing the unemployment rate. Thus students will be motivated to improve their language skills and will be additionally enhanced to citizenship and multiculturalism avoiding racism and xenophobia. In a peer learning relationship our students will learn about cultural, geographical, environmental and climatic differences in the countries involved in the "water" project. On the other hand SICTEC will enhance and reinforce the quality of the teaching by revising and strengthening the professional profile of our teachers. Our project will stimulate: the use of new technologies, the getting to know and later practicing of new teaching methods and, as a result, the improvement of sustainable learning. We finally hope that SICTEC will contribute its share to raise the educational standard of those students, who only have basic skills and knowledge, and will finally reduce the number of early school leavers by offering interesting, “real life” tasks and by making students use new, attractive technologies. Taking part in SICTEC will strengthen their digital and communicative competence. These key competences will open their doors to lifelong learning. We are convinced that nowadays "to share" means "to learn" and as teachers we are going to share not only our teaching methods, but our students and curricula, too. On this good base we have now agreed on accelerating the process of sharing and spreading our knowledge among us, adding the topic of methodology to the ordinary ones. In addition to students’ exchanges, video conferences, working on documents etc., we think it is time to spread our teaching experiences and knowledge more quickly. That is why sharing new teaching methods will give extra value to our project. By developing teaching material, sharing it with our foreign colleagues and testing it internationally, we can reach many more students and teachers. We want to create an electronic school book (calameo), which can be used by both students and teachers. Doing so we provide that our new teaching methods are linked and will be spread among teachers. Putting teaching material in a kind of pool (cloud, dropbox) for project use first, but later on using e-twinning/EST for disseminating all material, will give us the chance to spread our ideas and ways of teaching widely. Another point is promoting the use of English in classroom in subjects different to English. Finland and Denmark already have European courses using English in many subjects. So "Content and language integrated learning" (CLIL) is a common teaching method there. Italy and Catalonia have started with CLIL and wants to consolidate this method. With all these tools and expertise we feel strong enough to go one step beyond "old-style" projects and try to involve literally ALL students of each school despite their abilities instead of small groups only. So finally more than 3000 students will take part in activities related with the topic water. All in all these five partners will form a very strong alliance collaborating in the fields of teaching and education. We want to open and develop our schools in order to make our youth enjoy learning more and to achieve the aims of our schools’ development plans. Finally they will become more competent, have better skills and will be better prepared for the challenges they have to face in their lives, the world of labour and protecting the environment of this planet.
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