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ICT, especially iPad/tablet technology in the classroom can be a powerful tool for learning and comprehension. The interactivity provided in this project, made for a very engaging experience, definitely for elementary school aged students. Classroom technology made for an incredible learning tool.

Everyone learns differently. With iPad, you can teach all your students the same lesson, in different ways. The iPad/tablets in the classroom bring education to life. Children now have endless access to valuable information which previously was only available in printed format.

In this project interactive technology made learning more engaging and memorable. The six schools involved in the Project shared this point of view about iPads/Tablet and their possibilities as a means for teaching and learning. We shared our good practices related to it, and we contributed with our strengths working on basic competences, improving our students’ digital and learning skills and searching together for new ideas, resources and activities. The specific objectives of the projects were:

- To introduce students to the use of the iPads/Tablets as a tool of learning, and to develop their skills in order to make the most of them.

- To promote students' understanding of their local area from an environmental, social and economic point of view, by defining the role of humans in the surrounding area and the role that each one can take as an adult to benefit their own living environment from a European perspective

- To develop numeracy and literacy skills through the medium of an intercultural Ipad/Tablet project (Key-competence for lifelong learning: mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology)

- To make students aware, responsible and respectful of themselves and their surroundings and to enable them to collaborate and make a contribution within a context of initiative and mastery of cognitive and operational tools (Key-competence for lifelong learning: sense of initiative and entrepreneurship)

- To raise awareness of students' personal roles, skills and attitudes; to educate young people to promote awareness and intercultural dialogue and respect for cultural diversity (Key-competence for lifelong learning: social and civic competences).

In the project there were five physical meetings whose aim was to provide partners with training courses for the participating staff regarding the methodologies and tools used to carry out the project and in order to share good teaching practices and monitor and re-design phases of the project if necessary. For these meetings the receiving school prepared activities and a workshop on the use of iPads/Tablets in Education, so that they could bring to the project their experience and the good practices they had developed. The hosting school managed the workshop and prepared materials for participants.

The topics of these workshops were:

Spain: Making learning visible, Flipped classrooms through iPads/tablets; Ireland: Technology Outdoors; Poland: Creating new apps; Turkey: Gamification; and Finland: Creativity through iPads/tablets.

The tasks were developed for all the partners, some of them with a common outcome (Logo contest, web page, project blog, e-twinning space, e-magazine, presentation videos...), with one of the partners as the main responsible. And some were developed, in a simultaneous way, in each school (Erasmus+ corner, iPad/Tablet activities, videos about the project, e-books, keynote presentations, Project Week, dissemination meetings…) Apart from these, there were some students’ blended mobilities that took place during the same dates and in the same hosting school. To organize both mobilities together was a way to optimize resources and to disturb as little as possible the daily schools organizations. In order to take into account the needs of each school, and due to their contexts and the age of the students, not all schools moved and hosted students.

After the application was completed, Romania left the project. Spain, as the main coordinator, took all the tasks and responsibilities of Romania and took care of them.