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“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.“Albert EinsteinProducing a new tool for education technologies in international cooperation

Increasing teacher awareness about new teaching techniques and methods

Generating an innovative learning approach

Developing critical, questioning and emphatic thinking abilities

Supporting effective learning

Strengthening professional teaching profiles

Dialogue Erasmus+ KA2-Strategic Partnership ( 2016-1-TR01-KA201-034762 ) - This project has been funded with support from the European Commission through the Strategic Partnerships of the Erasmus+ programme. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Separating education and technology nowadays is not possible: they are two major dynamics in the knowledge age that we live in. Techniques such as school trips, drama, museum visits, and documentary film screenings are currently used in lessons.

However, these techniques are not enough to make them appealing to students. Thus, in many countries, movies and technological devices are also used in the lessons. These tools can be effectively used in such disciplines as history, psychology, philosophy, sociology, biology, geography and many others. They will give a new approach to learning, teaching and training activities.

DIALoguE project aims to convert suitable lesson topics into course material with films that consist of scene, setting, costume, story and music features.

DIALoguE wants to bring new approaches to the lessons and contribute to the development of a historical consciousness. We intend to develop a new tool that can be used in all subjects at school, and we would like to contribute to the EU citizenship concept by creating software that will be used for student films shot in regional and transnational collaboration.

Project “DIALoguE” aims to:• Produce a new tool for education technologies with international cooperation• Generate an innovative approach in education• Enhance effective learning in class • Raise the awareness of outstanding teaching methods in history lessons• Bring synergy and collaboration among partners• Increase student attention, curiosity and participation in the lessons• Make history lessons more attractive by taking advantage of technology• Develop students’ critical, questioning and emphatic thinking abilities• Enhance the students’ creativity and communication skills when shooting the films • Involve students in history studies

Expected results of using the tool in the lessons:• using technology in class• raising teachers’ awareness about using new teaching methods• providing continuity in teachers’ career development • improving students’ approach to history lessons• increasing student participation in the lessons• providing effective learning in lessons, including history lessons• developing students’ “learning to learn” skills• raising awareness about fiction and historicity in the films• raising awareness in common historical consciousness and establishing common culture • providing the necessary classroom environment for brainstorming that will let students develop their critical thinking and quizzical attitudes and increase their participation