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Teddy Bears
in Pairs – E-learning with grandchildren Erasmus
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Coordinator : Powiat Mikolowski (Poland)
Partners:
LJUDSKA UNIVERZA AJDOVSCINA (Slovenia)
FUNDACIÓN ARANJUEZ PAISAJE CULTURAL (Spain)
South Europe Youth Forum (Italy)
E-SENIORS (France)
The main
objective of the project is to motivate the whole community to adopt a caring
approach towards its elderly residents and to improve the overall quality of
their life.
The project
has 2 main target groups:
·
elderly
people from all sectors of the community, including those suffering from
disadvantaged situations or from mild dementia,
·
children from
secondary schools.
The older
people involved in the project activities will share with children their life
stories on specific blogs. Younger people will be “paired” with adults under
trainer’s supervision and will enable the seniors to gain new skills (surfing Internet, writing
e-mails and on a blog, chatting, playing games). Interaction between adults and
youngsters will be focused on specific topics (i.e. places, schools, historical
diets, former jobs, health and safety procedures/measures used in the past and
those used nowadays). Thanks to this exchange, adults will gain IT skills,
confidence and self-esteem, while younger people will enrich their knowledge
about the history and the social changes in their community.
This project
will concentrate on dual course. First,
during project meetings (5) and study visits partners will listen to the
presentations and collect good practices and methodologies of e-learning in
educational institutions for senior citizens to make a synthesis accordingly to
project objectives. Secondly, each partner will recruit up to 10
representatives of each target group - seniors and young people (10+10) - put
them in pairs and implement the methodology for e-learning elaborated by an
external expert. Finally these active target groups (from each project partner)
will establish Internet contacts through chat and e-mailing.
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The direct results of the project in soft context
according to a general aim:
• Creation
a collaborative e-learning environment where all the learners (elderly and
young) can acquire and improve their digital skills, and to seek the innovations
and best practices by the means of e-Learning and digital communication.
...and according to the objectives:
• motivation
of the whole community to adopt a caring approach to its elderly residents and
improving, as a result, the overall
quality of their life
• change
the roles in the learning process between elderly and younger people
• identification
of the needs of elderly people in order
to enable them the participation in the evolving Digital or information society
and definition of appropriate ways to meet these needs.
The approach will concern the organization of 5
international partner meetings including the following activities:
• Exchanges
of experiences and good practices of each partner (study visits, professional
workshops, meetings with target groups)
• Workshops
with organizations (concentrating mainly on target groups) belonging to the
network of every partner of the project
• Synthesis
of the meetings and writing of a short methodology of e- Learning
• Change
of own practice and to seek to integrate the acquired knowledge into the
practice of own institutions or organization
• Disseminate
of examples of best practice.
Minutes of Final Meeting in Ajdovscina June 2018
My memories of the remarkable
events from the past decades