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At the heart of this project is the belief that mobile technology presents an opportunity to create value, improve environmental education and make a genuine impact on teachers and students. Wireless education technologies allow learning to expand beyond the four walls of the classroom and the hours of the school day, so teachers can gain flexibility in how they use precious classroom minutes and how they motivate and challenge their students. In this way we believe that this project can have a genuine impact on students, teachers and communities’ environmental awareness. The specific objectives of the project are: 1) To use mobile technologies to transform environmental education2) To enable teachers to plan and carry out learning activities which integrate mobile technologies into their pedagogies, through the specific lens of environmental issues3) To disseminate more widely the activities and approaches that exemplify how mobile learning technologies can be used to upgrade students’ learning abilities during educational activitiesThe topic of environment and sustainability lends itself to mobile learning applications, as it is an authentic problem with which pupils can engage on a broad subject level. In this project, four schools will collaborate, focusing on environmental issues and using mobile learning applications. Multiple lines of enquiry will be applied, such as political issues, economic issues, social issues and natural scientific issues. The planned activities consist of local activities in the form of case studies, in four stages over two years and four LTT events, which mark the progression of the four stages. The case studies apply a consistent approach across nationalities, in which students become environmental auditors and use mobile technology. The benefits for the project align with three EU horizontal goals:1) Environmental and climate goals2) Innovative practices in a digital era3) Common values, civic engagement and participationThe project aims to address these EU horizontal goals by using innovative mobile learning approaches, so that students become true factors of change - reducing energy use and waste, understanding the key environmental issues in their locality, consuming sustainable food and considering mobility choices. Thus the project aims to enable behavioural changes not only for the students but also for their families, teachers, and all the public that may be in contact with the development and/or results of the project. The project’s focus on mobile learning methods and tools for teaching, training, learning and assessment are clearly drivers of improvements in digital competence. Finally, the project will support the active citizenship necessary to raise awareness about the importance of the topic and the collaborative action among the partner schools, which means a development of social and intercultural competences associated with working together from different parts of Europe.This project is intended to have both tangible and intangible results, producing digital artefacts (YouTube channel, project website, blogs, eTwinning workspace and Social media presences) and to transform environmental education through challenging and changing habits and attitudes towards mobile learning. Our target groups for dissemination are:Students, Teachers and trainee teachers, families and local communities.Students will be the agents of sustainable change, gaining new environmental knowledge, intrinsically linked to their local geographical and community contexts. In this way, the work will be embedded in families and the local community. Our project educators will have sustainable skills and knowledge from applying our exercises of integrating mobile apps in environmental education and in-service and pre-service teachers will take part in workshops organized by project members. At a national and international level, the outcomes will be disseminated in teachers’ workshops. Participating educators will also disseminate the results of the project nationally in magazines and sites for educators, Twitter and Facebook groups. At a European level, each partner will be responsible for the creation and upkeep of one instrument. Metis will be responsible for the project magazine. Santa Maria Marianistas will be responsible for the eTwinning account, while Liceo Statale will be responsible for the Instagram account and the Facebook page. Geniko Lykeio Aigiou will be responsible for the project website and project YouTube Channel. After our last LTT we intend to prepare an Erasmus application for the following year. In this way the project will ensure impact after the KA229-project funding.
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