SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
The need
and rationale of this project is strongly seen in daily life in schools in
Europe: media is everywhere and both children and adults live in the middle of
media culture. In order to act in media culture a child needs skills to master
media and it's adults duty and pleasure to support and guide children. Our aim
is to wake parents to pay attention to media behavior in families; how to enjoy
of media as well as control the use of media; time limits, age limits etc. We
aim that children will learn to use digital media equipment in responsible way. Our aim is to find new
working methods and new ways of enjoying media in schools; making short movies
with children, filming own News in school, making Newspaper, meeting a reporter
from TV, etc. By new technical equipment we'll have more opportunities to carry
out various media education, as school's technic is not at present-day level in
most of countries. Beside that we'll use traditional methods of media, such as
books and we'll carry out "Time Line of Media"-exhibition with
parents. The main point is, that children will work actively; create, play,
learn and produce, not just sit down and stare what happens in a screen.
By means of
various media education we'll support the development of children’s basic
skills, such as learning skills, as well as social skills. In many European
countries there are plans of preventing bullying in primary or secondary
schools, but young children are a forgotten group. In case of bullying a child
needs adult's support. Teachers need tools and knowledge in case of bullying.
Therefor we'll make a plan of preventing bullying in each school. We´ll use
experts and change all experiments and competence among partners. Our aim is
that children will adopt ethical values for life; how to treat other people,
also in case you meet them virtually. We expect that children’s self-confidence
will strengthen, as they know what kind of behavior is acceptable and as they
know what to do in case of bullying. We expect that children’s creativity will
increase as they get many kind of experiences of media education: story and
movie making, interviews, photo taking, etc.
We'll
organize training and disseminating events in local, regional and national
level and we'll use different kind of channels: events, printings, articles in
Newspaper or magazines, exhibitions, professional events and Fairs, radio or
TV-programs and internet (eTwinning, Facebook,
A Blog of the Project, Youtube, school's website, professional
websites). We expect that most of the project activities will stay sustainable,
because there is a need for new methods in media education and by new
technology we'll be able to carry out activities at present-day level. A plan
of preventing bullying will support teachers in their work in the future.
Cooperation with European people breaks stereotypes and leaves lifelong
memories and an open attitude towards foreign cultures.
There are 6
partner schools involved: Finland as a coordinator, Germany, Slovenia, Poland,
France and Belgium. Slovenian school is the biggest one; 9 units with 720
children and 120 staff and French school is the smallest one; 4 classes with 5
teachers. Other schools are middle size; amount of children from 100 to 300.
Age of participant children is from 1 to 10 years, mainly 3 - 7 years. German
school is a primary school and both German and Belgian schools have many
nationalities. Especially children in Belgian school face many problems because
of their immigrant background or weak social situation. Needs for this project
are obvious and what connects all participants, is a very strong motivation,
which was remarkably seen in a long preparation period of the project.
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