app2d@te

About the project

app2d@te tackled digital illiteracy in schools by developing a shared "Digital Education Skills Kit" (DESK) for teachers and students. The partnership brought together schools, an SME and stakeholder organisations from seven European countries to build a guidebook, a training course and an e-learning platform that help teachers bring AR, VR and other digital tools into everyday lessons. The project ran for 24 months (1 September 2022 – 31 August 2024) with a €250,000 lump-sum grant, coordinated by C.D."Teresa Di Calcutta" (Italy).

Partnership

Objectives

• Build a curriculum based on the digital skills students need for future classrooms
• Develop courses and e-learning materials that promote students' digital literacy
• Collect case studies showing effective use of digital tools with students
• Create an innovative "Digital Teacher Toolkit" (DESK) and pilot it with a group of teachers
• Disseminate the DESK Toolkit to at least 1,000 teachers across Europe

Project outputs

• Guidebook — a 280-page "Beginner's Guide to Using Digital Tools in Education", translated into Italian, English, Bulgarian, Maltese, Slovenian, Czech and Turkish
• DESK Toolkit course — a 24-hour open course teaching how AR and VR tools can be applied in education
• DESK Curriculum e-learning platform — a multilingual platform hosting toolkits, resources, a webinar schedule and an e-learning library for teachers and students

Multiplier events

Each partner hosted a local multiplier event to disseminate the project's outputs, reaching an audience of school teachers, students, parents and local policy-makers:

• Educational Apps, Blended Learning and Flipped Learning — Educademy Prague, Czechia
• Digitalization and 21st Century Skills — Bulgaria
• New Technologies and Future Classrooms — Italy
• How to Create Your Own Digital Classroom — France
• Project Based Learning with Technology — Lithuania
• Educational Technology – Distance Learning Education — Türkiye
• A Step for the 21st Century Education — Slovenia