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In the Cloud

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-UK01-KA219-036803
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 101,560 EUR

In the Cloud

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The need for Digital skills has never been greater. Employers continue to report difficulties in recruitment of qualified staff, while all young people benefit from the critical thinking and other transferable skills characteristic of STEM subjects, whether or not they are destined for STEM careers. The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing our world. We are moving to a new age of connected devices. We are living in a new connected world. Not only smart devices like smartphones and tablets are getting connected but many others in our everyday lives. They are changing industries as we know them. Automotive, Health, Energy, Connected homes are just a few of the sectors where we are seeing lots of change. The big players Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, CISCO and many others are making alliances, acquiring new companies and creating new teams involved with IoT. They spending millions of dollars? Why? Because IoT is very hot future trend.There is overwhelming evidence that the UK’s and indeed Europe’s digital tech sector is critical to its economic growth. The objective of ICT research under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) was to improve the competitiveness of European industry – as well as to enable Europe to master and shape the future developments of these technologies so that the demands of its society and economy are met. The European Commission recently launched a call for proposals on IoT large scale pilots in the areas of wearables, assisted living, connected vehicles, smart cities, smart agriculture and water management supported by Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The Internet of Things is the emerging technology offering the greatest opportunities to create new business and revenues, according to CompTIA's second annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, released in June 2019.We believe our project can help our students address some of the key skills challenges that Europe is currently facing. In the context of our project we are looking to promote these skills gaps to girls and encourage more girls to look to these contemporary careers and realise they are #notjustforboys. We will involve 84 students from 3 countries. Our project has a great variety of possibilities for dissemination. The broad interest aroused by any innovation among the maker movement, spread by all the countries of the world, favours the projection of our activities. We believe, through our partnership, we can use our intended projects to develop our students’ skills to make them better digital citizens, workers, makers, entrepreneurs and gamers to enhance their employability; and to help them become economically active. Activities range from completing iDEA (https://idea.org.uk/) all completed bronze and some silver level. All students carried out activities that introduced The Invention Cycle. Groups worked in mixed ability teams to access, use new technology, and created a framework for approaching an engineering or design process. They were introduced to new technology to begin to plan their projects. They developed and demonstrated skills in innovation, teamwork, communication, decision making and budgeting. The mixed International teams developed their projects further, developed their pitch and presentation skills and produced prototypes. They took part in activities that included: tinkering; introduction to 3D modelling and printing; introduction to prototyping with Little Bits and Strawbees; programmed and problem solved using Robots: Little Bits; Lego WeDo 2.0; Lego EV3; Robobo; mBot; microbit; microbot. They were introduced to Cloud Computing and the Internet of things. They developed skills in coding and computational thinking, used web 2.0 tools to collaborate, e.g. padlet. The pupils produced resources collaboratively for dissemination on a web site that we designed about this Erasmus project 'In the Cloud' http://bit.ly/36c6XoY and staff and pupils prepared resources for e-Twinning (http://bit.ly/2Psprf9) for VISH (http://vishub.org/)and we are going to disseminate the results on the http://www.scientix.eu/ platform as the staff involved in each country are Scientix Ambassadors for their countries. We have disseminated on social media which can be found on eTwinning site, Twitter @IOT_Erasmusplus (where in Mar 2019 alone we made 7922 twitter impressions had 80 profile visits) and we have collected all tweets on Wakelet (http://bit.ly/3534GM9). We believe our project has impacted over 2,000 pupils across Europe and a lot of what we produced is now embedded into each school's curriculum. We believe this project fully addresses the Gatsby Benchmarks which are a framework of 8 guidelines that define the best careers provision in schools and colleges in the UK, particularly: 2. Learning from career and labour market information; 4. Linking curriculum learning to careers; 5. Encounters with employers and employees and 6. Experiences of workplaces.

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