Name of the project:

Future Schools 2018

Founders:

 Tea Horvatić (Cro), Emma Escamilla Luna (Es)

Partners:

Marko Brajković (Cro), Esther Cabrera (Es), Serdar Dikman (Tr), Suzana Anić Antić (Cro), Justyna Babiarz-Furmanek (PL), Kamila Janowska (PL), Petra Žganec (Cro)

Details:

Age of the pupils: 6-18

Used language: English

Duration: 1 year

School type: primary and secondary public schools

Short description:

In this project we are connecting schools to advance their teaching and learning practice, share professional development materials, new learning materials and teaching methods. The idea is to get closer to the future and cooperate while doing so.

Aims:

Exploring and sharing new teaching skills

Acquiring new teaching / learning methods

Developing digital literacy

Improving communication skills in English

Using ICT - teachers and students

Talking about current topics in curriculum

Fostering creativity, tolerance and inclusion

Working with microbits and learning coding

Pedagogical innovation and creativity:

Integrating new teaching skills in curriculum

Creating new teaching and learning materials

Creating informal learning platform (for teachers and students)

Curricular integration:

In eTwinning group

In extracurricular activities

Possible new curricula

Workplan

- setting up the project  and finding partners (e.g. Erasmus schools)

- introductory activities: presenting school systems of our countries

- working out the topics: eTwinning Live Event on Adobe Connect - brainstorming

- creating app sharing page/Padlet

- dissemination of KA1 courses or job shadowing

- students' Skype or eTwinning conferences (Mystery Skype, Guest speaker, Virtual Field Trips)

- learning about the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, create activities related to them according to Future Lab approach

January- finding partners and creating a workplan

February - introductory tasks: video presentations

March -  Climate action movement, exploring what we can do to help

April - Easter and spring, Microbit project finalising in Croatia

May - video conferencing, Mystery Skype

June - creating eBooks, evaluation

Collaboration between partner schools:

Using eTwinning platform: events

Email

Facebook messenger

Partners will use Skype in the Classroom, Mystery Skype and other Microsoft tools for connecting to each other, share current content of teaching/learning, exchange presentations, videos etc.

Creative use of ICT tools:

App sharing page:

Kahoot

Quiziz