COMPUTER

Project Location

Country: 
Belgium
City: 
Mechelen

Organization

Organization Name: 
Sint-Janshof VZW De Ranken
Organization Type: 
School

Website

http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p84658

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Project Type

Education up to 15 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

Students with and without special needs of 4 different countries show eachother in what they are an expert by using 4 themes: computer, gardening, art and cooking.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

The project ‘Experts academy’ has a student oriented as well as a school oriented intention. With the students we started from the strengths of students with special needs. By working with different themes we showed each other what we are good in. Each partner country has chosen a theme in which the school has a lot of expertise.
For the work with the students we always had the same structure. One of the partners prepared a task for the others according to the theme in which he is an expert. The students took pictures from the result as well as the work process. They sent the images with instructions to the other partners and they had to try to do the same exercise and achieve a good result. We have put together the results of the partners in different ways. In this way we all became an expert in the themes of the others.
In the block of each team we met in the ‘expert-country’. We also took some of our students to the meetings. During the meetings the students worked together and tried to reach a common goal by working on a common result.
On teacher level we have built expertise about integration in education. There for we visited the different partner countries to exchange the ideas of inclusion, integration. The partners worked on a common publication in which we describe the way of working in the different countries together with some reflections, impressions and thoughts.
We had a lot of different activities and different themes to involve as many students as possible.

How long has your project been running?

2012-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

PUPILS:
-To be open minded towards European cultures:
By exchanging working methods and experiences we want to open their minds for European cultures. To achieve this we worked with audiovisual tools.
-To integrate students in mainstream schools and local community:
For future life it is important that students are included in their social environment. To achieve this we have let them work in mixed ability groups.
-To recognize strengths and increase self-esteem:
We wanted to make them aware that they have good qualities and others can learn from them. To achieve this they became an expert on a topic.
-To increase ICT-skills:
ICT can help students to gain autonomy. To achieve this we teached them how to use different ICT-tools by sharing knowledge between students.

TEACHERS:
-To share strategies about how special needs students and mainstream students can interact and cooperate:
sharing our experience can help to improve our pedagogical skills about inclusion. To achieve this we shared methodologies with our partners.
-To compare and adopt new pedagogical approaches according to integration of students in society:
To achieve this we exchanged expertise by observing strategies and methodologies in other countries.
-Improve ICT, language and communication skills:
To achieve this we organised some training sessions on different communication and ICT-tools.
-To value the importance of working together to achieve a common goal:
We believe that knowledge building in teamwork requires some complex processes (discussing, reflecting). To achieve this we organised a possibility to collaborate in our own school and with school partners.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
PUPILS: - increased language skills: students made a presentation in English, students tried to communicate in different languages and had nog fear about it. - increased ICT-skills: students use more and new ICT-tools now. - increased social skills and self-confidence: There is no more fear to communicate with people from abroad. - increased motivation: working with a European project is very motivating for the students. STAFF: - increased organisational skills: We are more trained in organising in a structured way larger activities - increased language skills: More and more colleagues don't care about having students from abroad in their class for a workshop in English - increased ICT-skills: We learned to know some new ICT-tools and we are using them in our school. - increased motivation: By travelling with students, more colleagues are open for European projects now.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

Most of the time the project coordinators of the 4 countries interact by e-mail.
We also had 6 project meetings with teachers and students travelling to the partner countries.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
From 10.001 to 30.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Fee
Specify: 
Secondary school for special needs education
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No
Since when?: 
2014-11-29 23:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

We were scared to travel with our special needs students because of the language. We learned that there is nog reason for fear, because especially our students are very good in communicating by trial and error. They always found a way to understand eachother and ask what they wanted to know.
Others can learn out of the information we collected about inclusion in the different partner schools. The activities and workshops we organised with our students are perfectly usable by others. The step-by-step schemes and descriptions of the tasks are on the Twinspace and can be used.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
It was not easy to find common dates for our meetings. Every school has his own agenda and holidays are not always together. Also the weather is sometimes important. We tried to plan everything very long in advance and had a calendar for almost the whole schoolyear everytime.
Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
At this moment our project is going to his end. The funding of the national agencies ended in june 2014. During the rest of 2014 we finished some paperwork and worked together to apply our project for some labels and prices. We want to get the projet under attention because it was very important for our schools.
art gardening special needs education COMPUTER European exchange cooking

Project Location

Country: 
Ghana
City: 
ACCRA

Organization

Organization Name: 
GHANA-KOREA INFORMATION ACCESS CENTRE-UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
Organization Type: 
University

Website

http:// www.facebook.com/GhanaKoreaInfoAccessCentre

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Project Type

Education up to 29 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

ICT TRAINING AND OUTREACH FOR PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

We are a public entity that provides “free public access” to information through the use of computers and the internet. We encourage the use of IAC particularly to underserved communities and schools in Ghana.
With our concurrent aim with our Korean initiators, we seek to reach out to underserved groups, such as primary and junior secondary schools who lack the practicality in computers and internet usage. Our technology service is made available to the public without charging any member, be it national or foreign. This therefore fell in line with our core mandate to forming the IACTON PROJECT to help the neglected school children in ghana.

How long has your project been running?

2013-09-29 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

The objectives of the IAC are as follows;
• To aid the spread of ICT knowledge and information dissemination.
• To promote learning of ICT.
• To equalize the digital divide of students and other users of ICT.
• To explore other use of ICT for the benefit of the Primary/secondary schools, the commercial World and the public.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
1. Students so far have enjoyed hands-on-computer training. ICT – (Student ICT Participation and Knowledge) 2. Teacher ICT and Pedagogical skills and knowledge 3. It has Boast ICT teachers’ morale 4. It has exposed students to our ultra modern IT Equipment 5. To prepare students for active and productive citizenship 6. To facilitate education and the spread of knowledge
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

USERS ARE MOSTLY SCHOOL CHILDREN (30/MONTH). INVITATION LETTERS ARE SENT TO THE VARIOUS PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND THEY COME TO OUR ICT CENTRE FOR SUCH TRAINING (WITH PROJECTS, WIRELESS, 30 COMPUTERS, PA SYSTEM)

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No
Since when?: 
2014-10-30 23:00:00
When is it expected to become self-sufficient?: 
2015-12-30 23:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

MAKING ICT EDUCATION PRACTICAL AND INTERACTIVE THAN THEORETICAL IN TEACHING. THAT WILL BE THE SUREST WAY TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED STATES.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
HEADS OF SCHOOL WERE RELUCTANT SINCE THE TIMING WAS CRUSHING WITH THEIR CLASSES HOURS BUT IT WAS RESOLVED AS THEY INTEGRATED THE ICT AS A MAIN CREDIT OUR COURSE
Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
OUR INITIAL PLAN IS PILOTING IN ACCRA REGION AND SOON WILL EXTEND TO OTHER REGIONS IN GHANA. ALSO WE WILL SUGGEST TO ITU AND OTHER NATIONAL INFORMATION AGENCIES TO MAKE THIS A PRIORITY PROJECT AS THEY SEEK TO ESTABLISH ICT CENTRES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. GETTING THE RESOURCEFUL PERSONNEL.
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