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"Technological advances have affected many areas of our lives: the way we communicate, collaborate, learn, and, of course, teach. But what does being a 21st-century teacher really mean and what and how has educational environment changed, students changed? Whilst collaboration between teachers and students, students and teachers is much talked about and known, the collaboration between students and students and teachers and teachers to change the role from the passive students to active, on collaboration centered activities, is quite poorly understood. Where is the balance between using handouts and worksheets and using ICT at the lessons? How much does teacher speak at the lesson and what about students? Is the teacher still the main manager (leader) at the lesson? What should be changed at the lessons? How to help teachers to improve their lessons? What is needed to support the teacher (courses, experience, advice, examples)? The answers to these questions were found by working together on the project ""ICT in Active Learning & Teaching-Inspiring, Challenging, Terrific"".Project aim: An aim of the project is to facilitate a better understanding of how students can better work together to improve their well-being, how teachers can better work together to improve their teaching skills with the use of ICT at the lessons and how to organize the lessons more active and modern where the role of the teacher has changed from the leader to the adviser. There were 7 countries participating in the project: Latvia, Turkey, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal.Profile of schools:1.The schools have a common understanding of modern teaching, there are regularly organized observing and analyzing of the lessons. 2.Classrooms are equipped with modern technology (computers, computer rooms, projectors, interactive whiteboards, document cameras, voting devices, tablets, laptops), most of teachers have the necessary skills to work with them. 3.School promotes cooperation between students and teachers: learning group of teachers, the weekly consultation training for teachers, student council, school board, etc. 4. There are students aged 12-16.To understand what, exactly, are needs for our schools, there was organized a research among all partner schools, teachers and students. The main objective of the research was to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the learning process and the attitude to use of ICT at the lessons. 89% of students mentioned that they would like to have more active lessons, more games, more common work (work in groups), no lectures, more use of ICT. About the attitude to the use of ICT among teachers- 53% gave the positive answer, 42% answered that they would like to use it, but they are lack of knowledge, and just 5% are not ready to change anything (waste of time) or they are too old. The Project length- 36 months.Main activities:STUDENTS 1. Logo online competition.2. Research of use of ICT and motivation.3. Team-building course.4. ICT course.5. Work at the conferences (ICT, science).6. Organizing workshops.7. Work at the learning groups.8. Video tutorials.9. Creating video about the country, city, school.10. Taking part at the Olympiad.TEACHERS1. Researches at the beginning and at the end of the project.2. ICT course (collaborative tools, tools for formative assessment, virtual reality).3. Learning course (the structure of the lesson, learning outcomes, formative assessment, collaboration, differentiation)4. Learning groups at schools.5. Planning the lessons, organizing analyze. 6. ICT program.7. Materials for the international Olympiad.8. Presentations9. Online lessons.10. Regional Olympiad. There were organized 3 Regional language online Olympiads. They were organized as online Olympiads.11. Regional conferences.There were organized 4 Regional conferences (creative work, use of ICT, planning lessons).Results and input.1. E-book with the descriptions of the most popular tools and ICT program. There is the description of the tools, information for teachers to work with the tool. https://en.calameo.com/read/0056384825f56a503de832. International Olympiad where students worked in the mixed groups to solve the problem.3. Presentations of the project work.4. E Twinning project to disseminate the results of the project. 5. Teachers participated at 4 learning courses, learnt to collaborate, planned the lessons, work with the ICT. 6. Students' created videos to introduce with their school, city, country.7. Information about the project- web page articles.8. Video of the math lesson and observation tool."
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