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Learn IT

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-NO01-KA229-076543
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 196,979 EUR

Learn IT

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We live in a rapidly changing world and do not know which professions that will still exist in five, ten or twenty years when today's students are going to earn a living. What we do know, is that digital competence and programming will be increasingly important. Programming has even been called the new literacy. In some European countries the curricula are in the process of being changed, and programming will be given more attention. This is likely to happen in the other countries as well. In a future world full of technology, not only programming will be more important, but it is also to expect that even soft skills will be increasingly important since that is what separate human beings from machines and robots. It is important as a teaching institution to be one step ahead when it comes to methodology and strategies. We believe we can learn a lot from each other, develop new ways of teaching together and in this way be ready to educate our pupils for the future.Based on this we want to introduce and use programming in traditional school subjects, such as social sciences, mathematics, foreign languages, physical education and natural sciences. By doing so, we will make learning more practical and hence increase the students' motivation, and we will turn our students into computational thinkers and thus increase their sense of mastery. Another important objective is to contribute to gender equality. This can even be seen twofold. Statistically boys achieve lower than girls in most subjects, while girls tend to choose other subjects instead of technology. We will encourage and give the boys a new access to traditional school subjects through programming and at the same time encourage and give the girls a new access to technology and programming through the other subjects which they statistically prove to master.We are six schools from six different European countries, namely Latvia, Greece, Portugal, Croatia, Spain and Norway, and we all share the interest in using programming in the context of non-IT subjects. In Latvia and Norway, the curriculum is going to change, and there will be more programming and practical learning, so therefore this project is extremely motivating for them. At the heart of the Greek school's culture, is the belief that programming represents an opportunity to a genuine impact on teachers and students. They have already used it in mathematics and found that the students are excited with this new approach. The Portuguese school can contribute with a vast experience in using programming in the classroom, but they have not yet introduced it in non-IT subjects. The Croatian school has studied its own practice and come to the result that their pupils get better prepared for lifelong learning and the labor market through more focus on programming, and they are therefore interested in including programming in more subjects. The Spanish school is of the opinion that focus on transversal competence and digital competence helps mastering other key competences, such as communication, language skills and basic skills, and prepares the students for their future.Our activities will focus on programming in non-IT subjects. The activities will span from visits in local companies and universities, building and programming robots, solving math problems numerical with programming, 3D print climbing holds and building a European boulder wall to making art with mathematics and programming. We will collaborate in eTwinning and in addition to physical mobilities in the different countries, we will carry out a lot of virtual exchanges.When it comes to methodology, the fact that we will do a lot of programming, defines it to a considerable extent. Programming is synonymous with computational thinking, a mode of working where you fiddle, create, debug, persist and cooperate. We will combine this with the ideas from collaborative learning, a method where the students team together and get to share their strengths and develop their weaker skills at the same time as building their interpersonal skills. Practical learning is also a key word here, the students will be active and solve real problems. In addition to that, we will go out of the classroom and see how the pupils can use what they have learnt in the real life.We will produce several physical results, like for example code samples, lesson plans, robots and even a boulder wall. The impact envisaged is for example that more girls will be interested in programming, more boys will achieve better results in non-IT subjects and the teachers will be able to teach in many new ways and also share this with teachers at other schools.In the long term, our students will benefit from the project in their future professions and everyday life because they know programming. The teachers in our schools and other local schools will have methods, teaching materials and code samples to use in their lessons, and our common resource library will continue to grow.

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