Priorities

  • The project aims to establish a successful partnership among a diversity of schools and regions. The partner schools have come together in an attempt to develop meet the desires and needs of students in terms of utilising technology in their learning endeavours. Students already spend quite a lot of time on their phones or computers and often this activity has negative effects on the student's performance in school. We intend to use applications and develop virtual lessons which can improve students' literacy and numeracy skills, thus making them more accessible to the learner. We want to enter the world of students and try to see things from their perspective.
    Spending time on the computer is frowned upon by parents and teachers as a waste of time, and worse, some education experts think that this activity corrupts the brain.  Students who spend a lot of time in frot of the computer are said to become alienated or commit  anti-social behavior.  But many scientists and psychologists find that computer-related activities can actually have many benefits – the main one is making kids smart.  Video games may actually teach kids high-level thinking skills that they will need in the future.
    More than that, our project intends to meet the needs of partners in terms of addressing issues such as: integration of minority groups (Bulgaria - 40% of the population in the village where the school is located are Turkish: Italy - there is a significant number of immigrant Muslim students in the school), enabling intercultural dialogue (all partners), improving the quality of teaching methods and materials in order to attract lower achieving students (all partners), improving students' communication and interpersonal skills (all partners).
    We start from the idea that the successful student, and therefore the successful future adult, should be confident and creative, with literacy and numeracy  critical thinking and ICT skills, as well as personal and social capability, ethical and intercultural understanding.
    In attempting  to achieve this aim, schools are faced with yet another challenge - that of preventing or reducing the number of early school leavers. Due sometimes to poor education in the family or to financial difficulties, students often drop out of school early on. The age of our students is perhaps the most critical, as it is the time when they need to make decisions regarding their future and cope with the pressure of peers, family and school requirements. Therefore, we intend to assist students and focus their attention on school as being the only option for them to attain their goals in life.