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The Magic of Sound
Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The partners are four grammar schools from Germany (Neusäß), Romania (Arad), United Kingdom (Plymouth) and Croatia (Zagreb), among the best in their countries. We want to create and test the "Ode to Joy of Science and Art", as an example of teaching/learning materials which will make education more interesting for all, even for less motivated students with lower achievement. It comes from the existing curricula of all participating schools, so it will be applicable in different EU countries, independent of their school systems, and it will be shared and further developed on a broad base. As ICT has a great potential in enrichment of ways of teaching and learning and making them more efficient, we want to get a full advantage of it. We generally want to enhance digital integration in learning and teaching. We chose sound as a topic because we found that it can be perfectly integrated in the subject curricula of physics, mathematics, music, languages, biology, history and psychology in all four countries. Our organizing the sub-topics in four groups around the main subjects (Magic of Music, Sounds in Nature, Sounds of Europe, Theory of Sound) allows us to establish a good basis for the exemplary interdisciplinary teaching. Finally we will show the techniques and examples to recombine the materials and give the teaching an arbitrary context, according to teacher wishes and student needs. Magic arises from sudden understanding of apparently totally different points of view, all describing the same thing and presenting the same truth but only when put together inevitably giving deeper insight. The activities are so designed that even prejudices about physics and mathematics being absolutely rational can be broken as they are connected to emotional experience. The point of the project is not only to give strategies of teaching to reach the objectives in all covered subject, but more to present strategies how to give simultaneously our students deeper insight in the global image and provide them with the tools to interconnect their knowledge and apply it in different fields, which is still one of the biggest problems in education. Each context will be approached through the same implementation phases. In each phase we will organize particular learning activities which will help in gathering corresponding knowledge and skills to be used. In Zagreb the curricula and strategies will be examined in more details, the necessary ICT knowledge will be exchanged and acquired, academic honesty will be discussed. In Plymouth the communication skills will be discussed in more details, using different media to communicate and collaborate (deepening of ICT skills addressed in Zagreb and solving possible problems). The next phase (Neusäß) stresses dispute settling and coordination of ideas, putting ideas together to produce the new quality, going in the direction of interdisciplinary teaching and learning, which will be fully addressed in the last such session in Arad. One part of the learning activities will be connected to the collection of materials needed for specific contexts, exploring of cultural differences and similarities and employment possibilities and one part will cover general knowledge and skills needed independent on the context. The knowledge and skills acquired in these activities will be disseminated, developed and applied in the work according to the project objectives and individual responsibilities at home in individual schools. Our activities will include visits to relevant institutions, factories and other places of interest, as well as presentations of cultural heritage connected to the project. It will allow students to see the opportunities for future employment within the EU in the context and in the same time to realize that being a part of Europe does not mean losing their identity, but can enhance it in positive way. Evaluation activities will be implemented during the project meetings, which will be used to discuss, evaluate, modify and finalize the prepared materials. We expect new ideas to be born and followed during these activities. We will end our project with the big international exhibition "The Magic of Sound-Ode to Joy of Science and Art" in Zagreb and the section of International Mathematical Conference with the same name in Arad, with promotion of our new methods and materials, and by the general evaluation and sustainability reflection meeting in Plymouth. Possible trans-national discussions and exchange of best practice will support not only teachers' competencies but as well their enthusiasm and encourage the further development and implementation of modern, intriguing and innovative teaching/learning methods on all levels. On e-Twinning and other collaborative platforms (OER) students and teachers will be able to learn, discuss, co-create materials and exchange the examples after the project has been finished. The materials and experiences will be included in the taught curricula.

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