UTIHL

"USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPLEMENT A HEALTHY LIFE" responds to the need of several schools that wish to make their educational offer more suitable for every student. Considering the many challenges that we face as educators and the social expection to equip our students with competencies that they might not have the chance to develop at home, we have based this project on two main axes:

1) USING TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE INEQUALITIES. Even though we are surrounded by technology in our everyday lives, many teachers do not use digital resources or strategies as an integral part of their teaching practice. On the other hand, we are educating a "digital generation of children", but considering that all the partner schools are state ones, we can see that a high percentage of our students cannot have an access to technology at home, so it becomes an added exclusion factor for them. Therefore, an important part of this project aims to train students and teachers, so that they can improve their digital competence and see these strategies as facilitators for their learning and personal growth. Working on this direction, our final goal is for all our students to have access to the same opportunities, without regard of their social, economic or academic level, so that digital illiteracy may not be yet another obstacle to reach social justice.

2) LEADING A HEALTHY LIFE. According to the opinions of the project partners, health education is usually not treated properly in educational systems, as it is dealt with in subjects like Natural Science or P.E., but normally seen in passing. At the same time, educators are observing how their students´ habits are getting worse by the day: lunch boxes are filled with unhealthy snacks, physical activity is becoming rare in breaks, parents show little interest in taking children outdoors to practice physical activities in family, computer games and video games are filling most of children´s free time… A long term objective of the project is to implement healthy behaviours among school students and their families in project partner regions.

The PARTICIPANTS include around 2600 pupils (3-14 years old) and their families, together with 240 teachers from five different European countries: Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain.

ACTIVITIES will be varied and realistic, focusing on the training on students in the use of digital competences and on the learning of healthy habits, and on the training of teachers in the inclusion department.