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"Inequality in education is a rising problem in many EU countries due to various factors: the main obstacle for children to meet the expectations of schools is the economic and educational background of their parents, not the fact that they have a migrant background. But mainly migrant children face disadvantages during the lockdown. In our project, we try to not only reduce the negative impacts distance learning has on the equality of chances in education, but rather use it as an opportunity and provide special training and tools to teachers to better understand their students’ needs.Teachers tend to have a negative perception of the performance and the behaviour of migrant children, which leads to a continuous downsizing of their talents and options as they still don’t receive appropriate training to deal with diverse classrooms. To remediate the negative impacts of distance learning for underprivileged children and to strengthen them in a new situation of online and blended learning, it’s not only important to go for digital literacy education and for adapted online learning tools but also for a steady training of teachers and educators in dealing with discriminating patterns and for an analysis of teachers’ expectations towards parents’ support.The project brings together 4 organisations from Austria (Südwind), Italy (ProgettoMondo Mlal), Spain (Association Madre Coraje) and the UK (Gryd Ltd.), experts in providing innovative tools for global citizenship and digital education, and 4 secondary (higher) schools (HAK 1 Linz, BSBK Vienna, Istituto Sanmicheli Verona and Ergos Sevilla) who will participate in the project, mainly with a team of 2-4 teachers and educators each. The main target group are the teachers who work in secondary schools with high diversity and with pupils of poor economic background. In the long run the project outputs will be available as multilingual OER for teachers all over Europe. DigiEdu4All also targets disadvantaged learners and their parents as beneficiaries of the pedagogical action.The objectives of the project are the development of digital pedagogical competencies of educators, enabling them to deliver high quality inclusive education in a setting of blended learning, taking advantage of online tools and flipped classroom settings. This learner-centred approach gives room for participation in the whole learning processes and with a strong accent in the empowerment and strengthening of disadvantaged learners within the educational system. Educators and students get curated information and tools to enhance learning and improve digital literacy and the implementation and evaluation of inclusive activities for inclusive teaching.Therefore in a process (research, draft, pilot, feedback, final version, evaluation) of extensive exchange and mutual learnings 4 intellectual outputs that will be available as free online resources on the DigiEdu4All web platform in the final stage of the project will be developed. (1) a didactical handbook “Digital learning with no one left behind” on inclusive digital education as a printable online publication (ca. 50 pages), primarily addressed to teachers and parents from secondary schools across Europe.(2) an online training course for teachers “Strengthening digital readiness giving voice to ALL pupils”. Content of the 6 modules is non-discriminating digital education, digital and media literacy, analysis of discriminating patterns, participatory methodologies to strengthen self-esteem, ownership and active citizenship. But there will also be a module on parental engagement and on the use of the evaluation tool for inclusiveness (IO4) as part of training. The course will be tested in a blended version in Austria.(3) a multilingual Open Education Digital Literacy Platform "" DigiEdu4All "" with Toolkits and a Lesson Creator that provide educators and students with curated information and tools to enhance learning and improve digital literacy can be used across Europe. It will contain tools for teachers and students and rich media lessons created by partners and the wider education community.(4) a toolkit to evaluate the inclusiveness of digital and blended teaching units based on methodologies consistent with Global Education, composed by a manual for teachers and educators on how to evaluate inclusiveness and a web app “digital glasses” to test the evaluation tools and to foster its application by teachers (beyond the project).Beyond conceiving, testing and evaluating these tools the partnership will strongly be involved in disseminating the innovative tools among teachers and educators across Europe. An important impact of the project will be a deepened knowledge and understanding within the Educational Community about the linkedness of an inclusive approach in online education with a critical and caring way of thinking and learning to tackle discriminating patterns, offering tools to sharpen the skills and the attitudes to do so."
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