Erasmus+ KA219 Project

 

“ Digital vs Traditional”

Project No: 2020-1-TR01-KA229-092872_1

 

 

Meeting in France

7-11 February 2022, Uzerche

 

 

 

 

Mobility Report

    Activities realized during the Mobility

7.02.2022, Monday

 

·         Opening Ceremony: all the participants attended the official opening ceremony of the mobility in the school canteen, with the opening speech by the headmistress, Mrs Bedou and the Academic director for international opening (DAREIC), Mr Mathelin.

·         Visit of the school in 4 groups by the French students.

·         General meeting:

o    Presentation of our school, the French Education System and our school’s previous EU projects. 

o    Presentation of the different teams.

o    Presentation of the topic “Learning science” and the connected activities organized during the week). In order to increase the levels of achievement and interest in sciences, two main activities are organized. The first one was intented to be about Astronomy with a traditional observation of Mars before the meeting and a collaborative work during the meeting using robots. However the pandemic situation made it impossible: first, the observation of the apparent retrograde motion of Mars had to be made in Autumn 2000 which was much too early in the project. The results had to be studied during the meeting in France initialy planned in May 2021 and postponed to February 2022. From this was kept the idea of a collaborative work using robotic programmation. The second activity focuses on movement and mechanic interactions. the different teams have to build and launch water rockets and film the take-off in order to calculate the speed of the rocket by pointing on the video (decomposition of the movement). This collaborative work in groups aims to improve the use of ICT and mathematical skills. The students have to record short explanatory videos of the different steps of both activities (see p.7).

·     Visit of the Library: foreign students, together with a French class, attented a presentation of the Library and its resource.

·         Teachers meeting: all the coordinators and participant teachers joined the project meeting during one hour before the lunch and half an hour after it.

o   Firstly, the coordinator Murat Aksoy gives an assessment of the project’s progress. The date of the next mobilities decided during the Turkish meeting are confirmed.

o   The Spanish coordinator Ana Delia Ramos Rodríguez gives information about the next meeting in Spain from 4 to 8 April, concerning the flights, the accommodation at the hotel and the local transportation.

o   The Spanish coordinator also explains that it was impossible to complete the first issue of the magazine before the meeting in France because it is a hard job for the students to arrange the various contributions that sometimes are in different formats (such as pdf…). She confirms that all the contributions have to be in Google doc format, text and pictures in a same file. She recalls the 8 selected topics (the country, the city, the school, the Erasmus team, music, food, tourist attractions and testimonials) and which ones are missing for each country. Concerning the testimonials, each team has to give one from a student, one from a family, one from a teacher and one from the coordinator (that means 4 testimonials for each country). The deadline is on February 28^th.

o   The coordinator presents on a Powerpoint the draft of the 2^nd issue of the magazine and ask each team to send him all the needed information, especially a complete report with pictures after each mobility. He will continue to collect data till the final meeting in Latvia in December 2022, then the report of the Latvian mobility will be added at the beginning of January so that the pdf of the complete Magazine could be send immediately to each partner. It will be under the responsibility of each partner school to print for its own use the necessary copies of the Magazine.

o   The coordinator explains that since the project is extended by 6 months the official end should be at the end of February 2023, but let say that all the evaluation process and the final report have to be completed before the end of January.

·       Lunch at the school canteen.

·      Music Workshop: All the students participated the Music Workshop which was prepared by the school Music teacher Gwladys Zohin with her students from the 7^th grade. Each team performed 2 songs from its country. Foreign and French students sang then together.

·    Workshop n°1 “robotic programming”, part 1: learning how to program. After a general presentation by the Science teacher Joël Poussain, 10 mixed groups of 4 students from the different schools learned how to program small robots using the software « Scratch ».

·       Dinner at school with the administration staff.

 

8.02.2022, Tuesday 

·         “Safer Internet day”: foreign students attended a presentation in the Library about password security on Internet.

·         Walk in Uzerche: All the students walked from the school to old train station and the Paper factory to meet the mayor. After that, they visit the old city center, especially the abbatial church and the city gate “Bécharie”.

·         Visit to the Mayor of Uzerche: The mayor Jean-Paul Grador welcomed all the participants in the assembly hall of a former Paper factory transformed in a municipal cultural center. Participants introduced themselves and gave the official presents. They visit the auditorium “Sophie Dessus”.

·         Teachers in the Classroom: Foreign teacher attended classrooms and taught the lessons they prepared before they came to France. Feedbacks from both the students and the teachers were positive.

·         Students in English lesson: foreign students attended an English lesson about stereotypes concerning French people.

·         Lunch at the school canteen.

·         Workshop n°2 “water rocket”, part 1: after a general presentation by the Science teacher, 12 mixed groups of 4 students from the different schools tried first to build efficient water rockets. Then they were given at least 2 tries to launch their rocket, with the possibility to improve their construction. Each take-off had to be filmed and timed.

·         Dinner in a Reunionese restaurant: typical food from La Réunion, French island in the Indian Ocean.

 

 9.02.2022, Wednesday

 

·      Boarding school: foreign students visited the boarding school and had a meeting with the school boarders who presented their life at school.

·         Teachers meeting:  the French coordinator presents a Gantt chart illustrating the remaining tasks of the project (see p.8):

o   Magazine issue 1 (P11): collect of the last data before the end of February. Presentation during the mobility in Spain.

o   Entrepreneurship contest (P13): the Polish coordinator Anna Szajerska explains that this task will be realized mainly during the mobility in Poland in May, but some preparation work will have to be done before coming. More accurate information will be given by the Polish team during the Spanish mobility.

o   Photography exhibition (P15): this task is to be done before the mobility in Poland in May. In each school, students are free to take photos of traditional and/or digital subjects. Transformed or edited pictures are accepted. Every participant will receive a certificate for their work. The school will choose at least 20 photos to build an exhibition in the corridors of the school. The photos have to be printed on paper format A5, but more digital and imaginative presentations can be done too. The exhibition has to be opened to the public, parents, press…  with a report in various medias (newspapers, social media…). This activity can be a good occasion to organize workshops with professional photographers, artists… before or during the exhibition. 4 pictures from each school will be selected to be brought to Poland and added to the Polish exhibition (this would need space enough for these extra 20 pictures).

o   A more precise schedule for tasks P16 (social media) et P20 (eTwinning application) will be decided later.

o   Evaluation and final report (P21-22): January 2023.

·         Workshop n°1 “robotic programming”, part 2: robot competition. The 10 teams had to program their robot for 2 different challenges: “following the path” and “getting out the maze”.

·         Lunch at the school canteen.

·         Visit of Turenne, Collonges-le-Rouge, Branceilles, Curemonte and Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (for teachers / free activities in family for students).

 

 10.02.2022, Thursday 

·         Visit of Limoges (world famous for the porcelain and enamels): cathedral, central market, medieval streets, porcelain dealers.

·         Visit of the Higher National School of Art: the different activities of the school either traditional and digital were presented to the participants, especially the 3D printing on ceramics.

·         Farewell ceremony: all the participant students and teachers attended a common meeting with the parents in the school’s playground. Final speeches from Mrs Bedou and the Mayor of Uzerche, Jean-Paul Grador.) who delivered the certificates to all participants. The ceremony ends with a shared moment around a buffet of sweet specialities.

 

11.02.2022, Friday

·         Art workshop: the initial work was intended to be about “glitch art” (distortion of a digital picture by entering words or sentences in its code), but the impossibility to use the Computers’ room transformed the activity into more traditional art (painting). This proves that when digital tools don’t work, traditional practices still do!

·         Workshop n°2 “water rocket”, part 2: calculation of the speed. Since no video of the rockets’ take-off was usable for the calculation of the speed, the Science teacher gave the foreign students other digital work already practiced in our school for the ICT certification (PIX), such as using a metadata of a picture to find the exact place it was taken, calculate distance and speed between 2 hiking photos... or decrypting morse code in a wav file… Congratulations to Ahmet and Ahmet Efe from the Turkish team who succeeded efficiently in every task!

·     Final meeting (rewards and evaluation): all the participants attended the evaluation meeting. Rewards were given to the wining groups of students for:

o     the best robot challenges (“following the path” and “getting out the maze”): Levin (TR), Louane (FR), Ivan (LV) and Lucas (FR) tied with Maria (RO), Eric (ES), Simon (FR) and Charlotte (FR).

o    the most beautiful rocket: Karina (RO), Coline (FR), Natalia (PL) and Claire (FR).

o    the best take-off: Ahmet (TR), Antonio (ES), Raphaël (FR) and Quentin (FR).

All the participants played a Kahoot on our school and the activities of the week. Then they filled an evaluation form (see p.9).

·         Lunch at the school canteen.

·         Visit of Brive-la-Gaillarde (for teachers / free activities in family for students).

 

                    C3-P9 Meeting in Uzerche (France) / Learning Teaching Training Activity:

Learning Science

Description of the activity:
- Describe the content, methodology and expected results of the activity.
- How is it going to be related to or integrated with the normal activities of the involved schools?

In order to increase the levels of achievement and interest in sciences, two main activities will be organized.
The first one was intented to be about Astronomy with a traditional observation of Mars before the meeting and a collaborative work during the meeting using robots. However the pandemic situation made it impossible:

-          the observation of the apparent retrograde motion of Mars had to be made in Autumn 2000 which was much too early in the project,

-          results had to be studied during the meeting in France initialy planned in May 2021 and postponed to February 2022.

From this we kept the idea of a collaborative work using robotic programmation: in the first workshop, mixed groups of students from the different schools will learn first how to program small robots using the software « Scratch », then these teams will be in competition for different challenges (following the path, getting out the maze…).

The second activity will focus on movement and mechanic interactions: the different teams will have to build and launch water rockets, film the take-off and then calculate the speed of the rocket by pointing on the video (decomposition of the movement). This collaborative work in groups aims to improve the use of mathematical skills (calculating speed…).

The students will record short explanatory videos of the different steps of both activities.

These activities are already offered to the students in our school. Robotic programming is in the ICT program of 8th and 9th grades. Movement and mechanic interactions are also studied in Physics during the 8th and 9th grades.

Please explain how this will be achieved and what the expected benefits are.

Etwinning will be used before the meeting especially for the robotic programmation. Partner students will get information about « Scratch » and examples of the possible challenges and may also ask French students questions to better understand the work they will do together.

How is participation in this activity going to benefit the involved participants?

The main aim of this meeting is to increase the levels of achievement and interest in sciences through different activities, either digital (robotic programmation, processing movement data…) or not (water rockets building).
We hope it will contribute to develop Scientific and Mathematics skills such as:
use of proportionality, programming/ algorithmic programming, search for information, accepting error to progress…
We also aim to develop collaborative work based on communication within mixed groups of students from the different schools. This means developing different skills: respect for others, sharing tasks, autonomy, taking responsibility within a group, critical thinking…
Then we would like to develop, in our school and others, Peer training, i.e. the creation by the participating students of efficient teaching tools that could be used by other students after the meeting (video explaining the calculation of water rockets’ speed).

Evaluation of the Meeting in Uzerche - 7-11 February 2022

 

From 1 = “not good enough / not interesting” to 5 = “very good / very interesting”

 

1	2	3	4	5
	1		3	31

 

1. Accomodation in the family / at the hotel

 

1	2	3	4	5
3	3	5	5	19

 

2. Lunch at the canteen                                                

 

1	2	3	4	5
1	3	5	10	16
		5	3	27
1	1	7	6	20
1			5	29

 

3. Activities

3a. Robotic programming

3b. Water rockets

3c. Meeting with school boarders

3d. (traditional) Art

 

Do you think the activities were connected enough with the topic of the meeting?

Yes: 34 / No: 1

 

Any comments about the activities:

😊Amazing, well prepared, perfectly organised, love it, will never forget. Congrats to the organizers. Fun, funny. Develop imagination and creativity, creative. Perfect timing

☹Too long

 

1	2	3	4	5
			4	31
		4	4	27
1	1	1	10	22
				12
1		1	2	31

4. Visits

4a. Uzerche

4b. Limoges

4c. Visit of the School of Arts in Limoges

4d. Collonges, Turenne, Beaulieu (teachers)

4e. Visits organised by the family (students)

 

Any comments about the visits:

😊Perfectly organised, beautiful, good and friendly places, exceptional places, interesting.

Love Limoges, Uzerche, Collonges-la-Rouge. Enjoy nature.

Opportunity to self-improve

☹Too much walk. Some people don’t speak English. Need more information about the history of Uzerche.

 

Something you like particularly during the week?

All: visits, people, accommodation, food…. Meet new people. Getting to know culture and people from every country. Great experience. Hospitality of the French team.

Workshops and trips: water rockets, robots, English lesson, Kahoot / Limoges, School of Art.

Visits organised by the family, bowling.

Timetable always in front of my eyes

Visit each other after school. Stay with my French friends. Spend time with our new friends.

 

Something you dislike during the week?

The language barrier at some moments between students.

Robotic programming.

Food at the school canteen. Too much bread. Food. Only croissants available for breakfast. Breakfast.

😊Too short