website of the KA229 Erasmus+ project   Project Reference: 2020-1-ES01-KA229-081965 

Summary

Nowadays, we can’t understand our way of living without technology. Therefore, it is necessary to train future European generations of citizens in the technological knowledge and advance. Hence, a part of our project focuses on robotics and application design. But it does not only requires practical preparation, it is urgent to reflect on the impact that technology causes. Therefore, another part of the project is the critical reflection of the technological phenomenon.

We want our students to be trained in the use of different programming languages with which to design video games, applications and robots. Also to make them responsible for the use of the technologies they operate on a daily basis. And to make them have a critical reflection of concepts such as: cyber-bullying, environmental impact and programmed obsolescence. The union of these two lines will create a technological seal of ethical guarantee, which will be a mark of distinction for any product that carries it, based on the principles of responsibility, sustainability and cooperation.

For the development of this project 5 educational centers from Spain, Romania, Greece, Italy and Portugal are associated. Partner Schools for the project have been selected according to whether they have a high development in at least one of the aspects of the project. We understand that the strengths of some can supply the deficiencies of others. Therefore, we will be able to create a synergy from the union that will make the project prosper and each center to improve those initial weaknesses.

Each partner school will select its students participating in a public competition, mainly attending to their interest in the humanistic and technological fields. But also to other criteria such as inclusion, equity and parity. In each transnational mobility, each country will have a team made up of 2 teachers and 6 students. The age of these will be from 14 to 16 years.

The project will last two school years and there will be five transnational mobilities, each with a duration of 2 days of travel and 4 days of activities, which will also include to show the results of the work done before each mobility. We will divide the students into two types of work groups: the first one will be made of students from each partner school and will work on the creation of an electronic device that helps to improve life at school. Another group will be a mixed one in which there is a student from each country, their job will be to study a specific problem related to technology. In each mobility, 5 creations and 6 talks will be exhibited. The works will be supervised by the teachers in charge of each area. The last activity will be the creation of a seal of ethical guarantee and the elaboration of a theoretical Decalogue to support it. In each mobility, other activities will be carried out in collaboration with external agents that will help expand our knowledge of what has been worked on. Finally, to spread the project, the students of each delegation will make a podcast that summarizes the content worked on in the project.

The methodology will be based on the principles of collaboration and communication. The project language will be English. We will create two work forums in Twinspace, one for each area of the project. Teachers will take care of stimulating and supervising its use. We will hold regular meetings to see that the established objectives are met and, if not, to correct errors. All activities will be evaluated to measure the objectives achieved and that everything is carried out as agreed.

In the short term, the impact of the project is the internationalization of each school and the knowledge of digital platforms to carry out and disseminate research work.

In the medium term, shared experiences between partner centers will have been generated and transmitted to the entire educational community and schools will incorporate into their curriculum both the shared methodologies of research work as well as the seal of ethical guarantee and the Decalogue that supports it.

In the long term, the partners undertake to maintain the use and dissemination of the seal and to include the content of the project in the schedules. In addition, the associated centers will be motivated to carry out more European projects.

The impact will be reflected on the final report that is made in the project evaluation plan.

The benefits that we can obtain are several: an improvement in our teaching work born from the exchange of methodological practices from all partner schools. Also, there will be a greater involvement of the students due to the nature of the project and its results, making life at school more attractive and reducing absenteeism and dropping out of school. In addition, from the students’ collaboration and the coexistence in the mobilities, a real feeling of European union will emerge that will spread throughout the entire educational community.