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Museum Education in a Digital Era

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-EL01-KA229-047909
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 106,927 EUR

Museum Education in a Digital Era

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"Taking for granted the celebration of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 we decided to plan the MEDE project. Our main goal was to increase cultural awareness of our students and support it by innovative practices in the digital era. Cultural Heritage and Museum World consist an important learning tool for schools because it can motivate teachers and students to broaden their view of the world and lead to cultural awareness. Thus, approaches of digital and artistic content that have been designed for this project are innovative. The project is based upon a previous Comenius ""Museums Education & Modern Society"" which was successfully accomplished in 2009-2011. The experience & material produced was supportive to the implementation of this project. The partnership was consisted of five schools, most of them vocational, with students aged 15-18 years old with similar characteristics, coming from low social and economic background, immigrants and Roma. Three of them had extensive experience in EU projects while two of them less. We had a range of objectives which were achieved through various activities mainly of digital and artistic content which made the procedure more appealing and creative. We started with a seminar in Greece, achieving the diffusion of our experience. Teachers were asked to plan educational museum visits with an artistic character leading to the awareness of cultural heritage. Two museum visits were proposed and a couple of activities, but the partners were so enthusiastic that they made more than 2 visits and various activities. It is very interesting the variety of the museums that every partner has visited – big museums in Budapest and Bucharest, small local museums in Greece and Portugal.Then the students were asked to create: 1) a museum corner within their school about the History of Education, 2) an old photo's revival, 3) a digital museum in order to establish a common space of projecting their cultures, 4) a museum kit about the History of Education which brings intercultural pedagogical benefits. They also created a virtual museum where someone can “walk” inside the digital museum, a photo gallery and many artistic pieces.With all these activities, the cross border cooperation and intercultural dialogue, the development of digital competence and communication along with comparative and critical thinking were achieved. All the activities have enhanced communication and linguistic competence and have fostered a partnership with a European dimension including elements of respect, tolerance and cultural awareness. Evaluation questionnaires, interviews and stories assessed the activities separately and on the whole at the end of the project. The feedback of the evaluation was positive. Dissemination tools among which are the digital museum, the website where all material are published, the eTwinning, the poster, the dissemination walls and museum kit (with the boardgame etc) will certainly integrate our objectives into school's regular activities. Also the museum kit is going to be lend to other schools. The teachers may use the material in any way they consider best, suited to the particular group and should encourage pupils to participate actively in the presentations.The methodology used here was team discussions, teamwork, presentations, assigning roles to students, interviews, painting and photography. The material produced by this project remains for integration in school-subjects.Teaching staff was influenced because they were informed by partner colleagues – students and they can take on similar projects in the future and become multipliers. Parents supported their children, contributed to the successful outcome of the project. Hosting foreign friends is an example of how society should function and accept differences. Local authorities were also involved as museum educators supported the design of activities, the digital museum and the museum kit and opened new channels of communication. Museums owners were very supportive too.The project attempted to create active citizens with knowledge and critical thinking, well-historically and culturally aware, competent in digital and other skills. The project hoped to be for the benefit of the community.."

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