The objectives of the project are to develop methods, tools, and skills for creating digital stories inspired by diverse cultural backgrounds to promote cultural and language awareness to address the need for inclusive educational interventions that promote empathy and creativity by adopting a community building approach in the developing the appropriate skills of its target group and facilitating them to design and implement engaging learning activities exploiting the cultural capital of EU countries.
This project will utilize the eShadow software to enable the development of engaging digital storytelling learning interventions in the involved countries. Using eShadow, teachers can set up and implement project-based learning interventions that combine multiple forms of digital media to produce dramatized digital stories. In this way, teachers and students are actually working under a STEAM approach. Their artistic (shadow theatre, storytelling – Arts) and digital skills (eShadow- digital technology) are enhanced.
The aim of this transnational project is to offer teachers the means to develop their learning design and digital skills to co-create with their students engaging, inclusive learning environments. The innovative employment of digital technology will stimulate creativity and facilitate interactions among all students, strengthening connections and providing opportunities forstudents who come from diverse backgrounds to be heard (e.g., by sharing their life stories/traditions).
This type of support for student creativity and learning within a collaborative learning environment is certainly aligned with the EU policies for fostering soft skills and offers new opportunities for the effective integration of immigrant students by enabling them to raise their voices through the stories they create and promote an over intercultural understanding the learning new media skills so that students become active users of modern digital tools.
Project Τitle: Stories4All: Developing Innovative Pedagogies and tools to enable the establishment and sustenance of communities of educators promoting empathy and social inclusion via digital stories for all.
Project Duration: 30/9/2023- 30/9/2026
Project URL: https://www.stories4all.tuc.gr/en/home
Project Framework & Funding: ERASMUS+ ΚΑ220
Scientific coordinator (UNIWA): Maria Hatzigianni
Consortium – Partners:
- Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) – The Center for Continuing Education (ZWW) – Germany
- The Technical University of Crete – TUC/MUSIC centre in the Dep. of Electronics and Computer
Engineering – Greece
- University of West Attica, Department of Early Childhood Education and Care – Greece
- The University of Warsaw (UW) – Poland
- Pelican School – Czechia
Research Publications / Results / Patents : Platform: https://stories4all.coursevo.com/
