Cross diciplinary peer learning using ICT 2014 - 2016
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Cross disciplinary peer learning using ICT - XPLICiT Our project started in September 2014 and has now two years later almost come to an end. The project is financed by the European union. XPLICiT is a school to school project where schools from Denmark, England, Finland and Sweden have been working together. Our project has had 5 main objectives. • Investigating peer learning as a learning methodology • Learn more about methods for creativity and entrepreneurial learning methodology • Improve students ICT competence and secure use of social media. • Learn more about European culture. • Improve students’ language skills. To reach our objectives we have worked together in national and international peer groups, we have met online and in real life during mobilities. We have had coordinators’ meetings in London and Copenhagen and student mobilities with different themes in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Visit our weebly page at: http://peersandpads.weebly.com/
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The London Nautical School United Kingdom The London Nautical School was founded in 1915, as a consequence of the official report into the loss of the “Titanic”. In 1990, it became one of the country’s first 11-18 comprehensive secondary schools for boys to be awarded grant maintained status. In September 1999, we became a Foundation School within the London Borough of Lambeth. The school is situated in Stamford Street on the south bank of the River Thames, in between Blackfriars Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. The London Nautical School is a smaller than average school situated in the heart of London. The school has a unique nautical ethos, is very popular and is heavily oversubscribed with four applications for every available place. It serves a very wide catchment area which stretches throughout London. The school has specialist sports status and has gained a number of prestigious accolades including Healthy Schools Standard and the British Council Gold Award for International Work.
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The school has a welcoming and harmonious community, where students are happy and safe and make sound academic progress. They behave appropriately and respect the views of others. Through the work associated with the national awards, students have a good understanding of the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, participating enthusiastically in sporting activities and physical pursuits, which reflect well the ethos of the Sports College status.
Uotilanrinne Comprehensive School Finland Uotilanrinne Comprehensive School is a school of approx. 460 13-16-year-old-students. Our lower secondary school is situated in the western coast of Finland, in Rauma. Rauma is one of the oldest towns in Finland, and this beautiful Unesco World Heritage small town represents long traditions in shipping and lace manufacturing in Finland. Uotilanrinne Comprehensive School has students in three age levels (7th, 8th and 9th graders) divided into 7 or 8 classes in each age groups. The school has 40 teachers, and 20 other staff members. The school has a long tradition being the school where the students have always come from the surroundings of Rauma; nowadays the students come from 7 different primary schools. We do not have that many students with a foreign background. Instead, our school has a good reputation of receiving and integrating students that have special needs in learning; equal possibilities in learning and tolerance between different learners are the values that our school carries.
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Kjellerup Skole Denmark Kjellerup is located in the heart of the peninsula of Jutland. The city of Kjellerup is part of the municipality of Silkeborg. Kjellerup has about 5000 inhabitants. The municipality of Silkeborg has about 90000 inhabitants. The area where Kjellerup is situated is mainly a rural area with small shops and businesses, but there are also small industries. The majority of people living here, mainly, work in the bigger cities Viborg and Silkeborg. Kjellerup is located between these two cities. By car it takes about 15 minutes to go Viborg to the north and about 15 minutes to go to Silkeborg to the south. It is quite easy to go to both Viborg and Silkeborg by bus. Kjellerup School is the only school in the local area, and we therefore have children living in the countryside and children living in the city of Kjellerup. Kjellerup is a low-income to middle income area. Kjellerup School is one of 29 schools in the municipality of Silkeborg. The school has about 710 students. The students vary in age from 5 to 16. Kjellerup School is a comprehensive school. The pupils at school all come from the local area. At school we are about 50 teachers and 12 leisure time teachers. There is one Head and a Deputy Head and a pedagogical leader. The administrative work is managed by 2 secretaries. At school there is a Leisure Time Center. This is for children from school year 0 to 4. There is a school club for children from year 5 to 7. The school day starts at 08.15 am. The youngest children continue school until 14.15pm. The olvvdest pupils 6
finish their school day 15.15 pm. After the school day has finished for the youngest children the majority of them continue in the Leisure Time Center. The Leisure Time Center is open until 5 O’clock. On Fridays it closes at 16.00 pm. At present the school has different areas where we are trying to develop and focus on how we can improve our teaching. • We work on how we can get more physical movement into classes. We think that many children can increase their learning ability if they have the opportunity of physical movement at the same time. It is also a lot of fun. We are appointed as a Danish profile school for movement and exercise. • We work on our ICT skills. We try to think the use of ICT into all our teaching. We recommend that the children bring their own devices to school. • We work on a pre-reading program together with the local kindergartens. In this program we use I pads. In general we have much attention on reading. • We work with innovation and entrepreneurship in our classes. • And we work with different international projects. We work together with a German school where they send students as trainees to us, and we have a Chinese sister school as well. We have at a number of occasions been a host school for teachers from specially China. We are always interested in participating in Erasmus-projects.
Kvarnbyskolan Sweden Kvarnbyskolan is located at the centre part of Mรถlndal. It is a secondary school with students from year 7-9. Our school building, as you can see have a beautiful exterior. Kvarnbyskolan was built 90 years ago. In our school we have 450 pupils divided in 5 classes for every year and 35 teachers. We don't have any after school activities but Kvarnbyskolan has a music profile. That means that some classes have more music classes and play in bands, write and perform plays etc. Kvarnbyskolan has taken part in a number of Eu-projects. For this project we started off in 2014 with 20 students in year 7. Pupils from every class took part. We have been working with the different tasks once a week since the project started.
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Coordinators meeting UK The mobility is planned to introduce the project and be familiar with the tasks as well as the programs that will be used throughout the project. The other aim of the mobility is to organise practical ICT training for the partners. The training helped the teachers to use various ICT tools to produce movies, newsletters as well as use the project portal.
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During the mobility we had the opportunity to discuss the project management, general rules, interim and final reports as well as planning the future mobilities and trans-national meetings. Part of the training was “in house� and at least 15 teachers attended.
Team UK
OKORIE My highlight of the project was when we did the cooking activity with everyone else in the project. Something I am looking forward to in Sweden is getting to know the culture and learn the language.
DEWI The highlight of being in Finland was getting to write and produce and soundtrack to the film and seeing how everyone interacts with music. Something I’m looking forward to in Sweden is getting to meet new people.
DEELAN My highlight of the trip was when I was able top act in the movie. My favourite part of the project was when we visited Finland and we got to experience learning another language. It was also very fun to make the movie.
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LOIS My highlight of the trip was 40/40 home in the forest when Erol landed in sewage. My favourite highlight was when we went to the art museum and my favourite paintings were the three amigos and duckzilla.
EROL My highlight of the trip was meeting new people, making new friends and finding out more about Denmark and our new friends. One of my favourite days was when we presented our project which was a way to make the art gallery more appealing to younger people.
OLIVER The highlight of my visit was visiting Denmark for the first time and also participate in the project and also making new friends. My highlight was also bowling and the swimming in the afternoon which was really fun.
JEREMY My favourite part of the project was the making the prop for my team and making the presentation for the team. I also enjoyed going on the plane and the landscape of Denmark. I also enjoyed going to different parts of Denmark like museums and tourist places that is available in Denmark. F0or example the ring of colours. I may not know the name of the place but i8 remember how its looks like. You can see the whole city of Denmark. I also enjoyed going to the port of Denmark and a shopping mall.
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VICTOR The highlight of the project for me so far has been recording the videos exploring different languages and the many ways people ‘speak’ English. I’m currently looking forward to meeting new people in Sweden, as I wasn’t in Finland last time. Hopefully I will have a good time.
LAZARO My favourite part of the project was visiting Finland, getting to socialize with the Finnish people and being part of the cartoon makers. My highlight was going to the sauna and jumping into the sea.
DIOGO My highlight of the trip was meeting new people and also my host in Denmark, it was so fun and also a bit scary. My favourite part of the trip in Denmark was when school finished and when we played 40-40 home in the forest. I also liked when we did the project and worked as a team it was really fun and interesting.
NICHOLAS My Highlight from the project was when it was after school and we were at the forest playing 40/40 Home. My Favourite highlights was when we went to the swimming pool and we were all having fun swimming ,Throwing balls at each other and spraying water at each other. I also enjoyed it when we all went to the Birthday Party. It was extremely fun!
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JAMAL My highlight from the project was making the film and meeting all those amazing people as well as all the interesting food. My favourite place we visited was Heilminan, with its beautiful scenery and hot sauna and hottub
Teacher NEVZAT YUKSEL Head of Faculty of ICT, Business and Economics at London Nautical School
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Mobility Finland Saturday 18th of April Our guests arrived to Rauma. Meeting the guests in the school yard. Everyone was excited and it was unbelievable. Sunday 19th of April We all met in Old Rauma and started our city orienteering in color groups. Then the host families took their guests and ate with them. After that it was the time to go to Helmiranta. There we were swimming in the ice cold sea and the guests got to try the Finnish sauna. There was also two hot tubs where you could just be in warm water. We ate sausages and played some games together. We had a great time. Monday 20th of April First day of school. The school day started at 9 AM. It was very exciting to bring the foreigner guests to a Finnish school. Then we split up in two groups. The other one visited the home economics class and made Carelian pies while the other group played games to get to know each other better. The games were really funny and we laughed a lot. After this all the colour groups started writing their own script for the movie. Then all the groups represented the scripts and we chose the best one that we would produce. We got to leave the school a bit earlier than usual. Everyone spent the evening with the host families. Tuesday 21st of April In the morning we went to school again. Everyone chose what they would like to do in the movie project. The
options were making of, producers, actors, music team, tech-team and animation team. The script writers started working on the script more closely. The tech-team started learning how filming works. The animation team made their animation characters out of paper. If someone didn’t have anything to do, they could try to learn how to make lace. The making of team was filming the whole thing. After lunch the filming project started. The animation team started doing their animation and everything was on full-speed. The evening we spent in the host families. Wednesday 22nd of April The filming project continued. The music team produced music in music class. Half of the tech-team started to edit the movie. We printed our hands with colorful paints next to our project logo on our school wall. In the evening most of us came to play to the school yard before our farewell party. We ate pizza and watched the trailer of our movie. We also watched the animation and the making of film. Some of us gave speeches about the week and everything that has happened. Thursday 23rd of April The host families and their guests gathered at the school 7.50 AM. Everyone was hugging and saying goodbyes over and over again. Many of the girls started crying. Then the bus came. It was so sad and our guests had to leave Rauma. We waved at them and one boy even ran after the bus.
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Team Finland
EMMA BECKINGHAM The highlight for me was the Finland mobility. I look forward to summer holiday.
MILLA HEINO The highlight of this project for me was the Finland visit. I got to meet the most amazing people and had so much fun. The person I admire the most is Troye Sivan because he is following his own track without caring about other people’s opinions. That’s what I aspire to do also.
SAMI JEHKONEN My highlight of the project was making the animation. My favorite place is my room, on my computer.
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JULIA LEHTONEN The highlights of this project was the Finland visit and getting to know other people. My favorite place is home
JEREMI LEMMETTY The highlight of the project was when we were all together at school and did stuff together. My hidden talent is planning a story. I noticed it when we needed to come up with a plot.
ELMERI LEPONIEMI The highlight of this project has definitely been the way all of us in the project have worked together, and through that we’ve created connections that last. My hidden talent is cycling. I noticed it when we were going to school one morning by bikes.
TEEMU LUODEMAA The highlight of this project was the Finland visit. My favorite place is my room and my computer.
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JESSE SUOMINEN The highlight of this project was the Finland visit. I´m looking forward to holidays.
ELINA TALSI The highlight of the project was the mobility in Finland. I’m looking forward to summer.
NICLAS VALPOLA The project’s highlight was when we ate pizza. I’m looking forward to Avengers: Infinity War (the movie adaption)
VALTTERI YLIJOKI The highlight of this project was the Finland visit. My favorite place to hangout is my room.
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IIRIS KARIKYTÖ I joined the project in the spring 2016 so in my case the highlight was when I got invited for the visit to Sweden. One of my favorite places is on the stage when I’m performing my own choreography. I love the feeling it brings to me.
EETU KAUKKILA The highlight of the project was when me and Valtteri got to play magic with Jonathan and Lazarro. My favourite place in the entire world is Science fiction bokhandeln in Stockholm.
EVELIINA KORTENIEMI The highlight of the project was when we were in Finland and we went playing football in our freetime. The person I admire is Antti Katila because he is my best friend and he’s awesome.
MILLA KUUSISTO The highlight has been the Finland mobility and just being together was fun. best things about holiday.
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KATRI MAAJÄRVI The highlight has been when we did the movie. It was amazing experience. My favorite place in the world is baseball court because I love it so much.
VEIKKO SALLINEN The highlight of this project was the Finland visit, and all the activities we had by ourselves, It was great. My hidden talent is acting, I can get out of tough situations by acting cool, surprised, blown away etc.
PETRI SEIMELÄ The highlight of this project was the Finland visit. My favorite place is my room.
JONNI SIIVONEN The highlight of this project was the Finland visit. My favorite place is my room and my computer.
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TINJA JURTTILA The highlight of the project was when we made the movie. I look forward to future.
Teachers MINERVA HALMINEN My highlight was the first day of our first mobility. When I saw students playing, laughing and swimming in ice-cold sea together, I realized, that this project was something we should do more in our schools.
JOHANNA KOUKKARI For me as a teacher, the highlight of this project has been the chance to offer my students an experience of an international atmosphere in my classroom. It has been amazing to see how the project has had a positive impact on everyone!
TITTA AITAVAARA The highlight of this project was to get to know different European teachers and schools. It was great to see similarities and differencies of them.
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Mobility Denmark The theme for our mobility was “Innovation and entrepreneurship”, and we should focus on Art - Music - Craft - Home Economics In this project we worked together with our World famous Art museum Museum Jorn. In cooperation with the head of communications, Lars Hamann, and the dissemination inspector, Mette Hanghøi from the museum, we had written a case. “Branding Competition - How to attract more adolescents in the age 13 - 18 years?” There were certain demands, that should be fulfilled, and by the end of the week, the students should present a synopsis and a product.
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The students worked very hard, committed and had a lot of creative and innovative ideas. The products covered a wide field from innovative playgrounds to interactive showrooms. The last day every group presented their idea for the representative from the Museum Jorn and all the other students. Both Museum Jorn and all the teachers were very impressed with the students and what they had achieved in the peer groups.
Team Denmark
NICOLINE MØLLER RASMUSSEN What has been the highlight of the project : When we were in Finland, in Rauma. It must have been the most experiencing and exciting week in my life. One person I admire and Why : My mom, cause she’s like a bff to me, and not my mom <3
KIRSTINE GULDBORG JACOBSEN What has been the highlight of the project The highlight of the project was to get new friends and work together with people from other countries. Something I look forward to? I look forward to summer because you can sleep in a tent, go to the beach together with my friends and eat a lot of ice-cream.
LAURA ØSTER NIELSEN What has been the highlight of the project? Be a part of a project across nations Something I look forward to? Summer and warm weather when we go to the beach and eat big ice cream:-)
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MADS TIND DAMGAARD My favorite place: Portugal What have been the highlight of the project? The highlight of the project for me was the Danish mobility and meeting new people
JULIE BRØGGER KROGH What has been the highlight of the project? Our trip to Finland My hidden talent
I can make my eyebrows dance, and I’m really good at table tennis on wii.
MARIE LOUISE NIELSEN What has been the highlight of the project The highlight has been to meet a lot of new lovely people from other countries My hidden talent I’m good at tetris Something I look forward to? I really look forward to summer.
SIGNE LARSEN What has been the highlight of the project? To visit Finland was amazing! We had so much fun! My favorite place: The riding school is my absolute favorite place!
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SIGNE STUDSGAARD DAHL What has been the highlight of the project? The journey to Finland!!! It was fun making the movie, and I got many new friends :) My favorite place My bed, because it’s so nice and soft
MILLE What has been the highlight of the project? To travel to a country and experience their normal day. To work with people from other places, who look at things in a different way and to make new friendships. Something I look forward to: To go to Sweden with the project and then go to Barcelona five days after. With my mom, dad and sister and to fly for the first time ever.
NICOLAI HUGE PEDERSEN For me the highlight of the project has been meeting all people from so many countries and getting to know and work with them. It has also been interesting learning about how the schools work in Sweden, England and Finland. My hidden talent is being a handball coach. I have the last half year trained some young boys in the age category of 6-8 years.
MAGNUS HOLTEN-MØLLER The highlight of the project … … has got to be meeting all kinds of different people from different Nations. When we meet, I know nothing about them and then we just start talking and have fun. Something I look forward to. I look forward to get a job and to go into the life of the real world as an adult.
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EMILIA HØFFDING LARSEN
Teachers
What I have learned by being in this project? Well I can tell that what I have learned is that I have got all kind of friends no matter culture or religion, colour or languages as long you open your heart. To be in this project makes me consider all the times I actually doubted this. It has turned down all my prejudices and surprised me in a positive way. vI feel that I have learned to communicate better with people from abroad and learnt how to work with them in a different way. But the best is all the great new friends I got now. I can only say that this Erasmus project is a lifetime experience for me.
Teachers ERIK RAABY – DEPUTY HEAD KJELLERUP SKOLE It can be extremely difficult to highlight one thing from our project. It has been fantastic to see our pupils mingle in our motilities and to see how soon they got to know each other. On a personal level it has been really great to meet new colleagues. It has been great fun.
BIRGITTE MØRCK RUGHOLM The best things about participating in a project like this is to get international contacts and work across borders in cooperation with other teachers. To follow the students as they develop intercultural awareness.
LINE MARIA ANDERSEN
Highlights of the project: • Seeing the students from the different countries interacting • Working with teachers and getting inspiration from other countries.
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Mobility Sweden The mobility is the last and focused on this semester’s task which is language learning. The peer groups have among other things, during this semester read children’s stories and fairytales from the different countries, The legend of King Arthur, Pippi Longstocking, Moomins and The girl with the matches. After reading these stories they have written a text inspired by the stories but with a modern twist.
The Swedish students made a walking tour of places of interest in Gothenburg to learn more about Gothenburg and it´s history. We have also experienced different types of food when the students made famous dishes from their countries.
Once in Sweden, the students worked with their texts, and wrote, filmed and edited a book trailer. We have also been doing peer group activities in “Universeum -science centre”. Here our students also took part in a workshop where the made their own “drawing robots”. 25
Team Sweden
MOA I think the highlight was when we had workshops for the third graders. It was really fun to see them work. My favorite place is Jordhamn, on Ă&#x2013;land.
LUDWIG The trip to Finland and meeting new people and learn more english. I´m looking forward to meet everyone who is coming to Sweden
AUGUST The trip to Finland was really fun, especially making the film and learn more about Finnish school system. I look forward to Saturday.
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ANDJELA In my opinion, my favourite part of the project has been to meet everyone and learn about new cultures. I look forward to the day I turn 18, why? well, so i can leave Sweden with Ellen.
LINNEA My favourite part of this project is making new friends all over Europe. Also our trip to Denmark was amazing. I look forward to possibly to meet some of you again.
NORA The trip to Finland was my favorite part of the project because I meet new fun friends whom I will never forget. My favorite place i in a rowing boat on the lake.
SARA The trip to Denmark was the funniest part of the project because I learned very much english and I got to know new people. I look forward to the summer vacation because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to a camp for a whole month.
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EMBLA I think the highlight of the project was the trip to Denmark. I met so many nice people and I became good friends with my host and her family. It was really fun to work with other people and I learned a lot too. :) My favourite place is the football field. When i come to the field I forget all the problems I have and just focus on the ball. I LOVE IT!
LOVA The highlight of the project has been to meet new people from other countries. My favourite place is New York.
RAGNAR The best thing with the project was to meet new people and see other countriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; schools. I look forward to go to France in the summer.
ANNA What I liked most with the project was when we actually got to meet each other. When we met we had a lot of fun and now we got new friends. I visited Denmark and I really thought that the project we did there was fun because I love art.
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KLARA The trip to Denmark was my favorite part of the project because i got some new experiences. I am really looking forward to the summer holiday.
MATILDA I think that the trip to Denmark was the most fun because that was what I expected the project to be. My favorite place is in my books.
JONATHAN The trip to Finland and getting to know new people. My favourite place: Backe, in Jämtland (Our ex-summer house)
SEBASTIAN The travel and meeting new people. Also speaking english. My favorite place - A vineyard in Tessorino, Italy
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ELLEN “The fika” has been the best. It was fun to go to Finland too. I`m looking forward to move out of sweden with Andjela to an apartment in london. and we will be playing music all day long.
Teachers CHARLOTTE KARLSSON
The highlight of this project has to be all the meetings with some truly wonderful people. Also It has been highly inspirational learning about the different school systems and different pedagogical approaches. And of course all the creativity generated.
MARGARETA GULDÉR Great to meet everyone.
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What have we learnt so far….. Our main objective in this project was to investigate peer learning as a teaching methodology. To achieve our aims and objectives we have tried different ways to implement peer learning in international project groups and as well as within the participating schools. We have tried different short peer learning exercises such as; • Group problem solving activities • Peer assessment • Designing workshops for classmates and younger students.
companies understand as cooperation with schools can be mutually beneficial. Learn more about European culture and improve students´ language skills. During the mobilities we have learnt more about culture in our project countries in many different ways as all our student have stayed in host families they have experienced family life in a foreign country. English is the project language so all students have had the opportunity to practice English throughout the duration of the project. We have concluded that the student mobilities and the opportunity to meet other young people and share experiences is important. Our students have practiced their language skills and have made friends as well as memories which they will cherish for life.
• Teacher led workshops for colleagues. We have concluded that peer learning is a great way of engaging students and that the peer learning methodology works well in combination with other more conventional teaching methods. Improve students’ ICT competence and secure use of social media. We started the project with a course in Internet ethics as cyber bullying is a big problem in our society; this has been an ongoing activity in the schools During the project we have used social media to communicate with each other. We have done via conducting online meetings and have produced a number of digital products such as e-books, movies, podcasts, and questionnaires. Products which have then been shared on our web page www.peersandpads.weebly.com
ROSE-MARIE CONWAY
Project coordinator
We conclude that the use of ICT tools facilitates active learning in a creative way. We found that students already knew a lot about the use of social media but needed to learn better tools to deal with online bullying. Improve methods for creativity and entrepreneurial learning Entrepreneurial learning, as taught in our Danish mobility, sought to improve students´ creativity skills. We found that students are very creative and are often better than adults at coming up with unconventional solutions. This result is something we have to make 31
Thank you for all the memorable moments!