Teaching innovatively (with focus on ICT) and its impact on the quality of education

How has the project enriched you?

This project has enriched me by enabling me to connect with foreign students. It has also allowed me to create projects that involved using my creative side and my English skills.

The project has enriched me in many ways. Professionally speaking - I now have a different view of teaching using the new technologies. I learnt many new things I can apply in the classroom. Personally - I met so many wonderful people, the joint work and efforts promotes cooperation and friendship, which is one of the major goals of the project.

I think that knowing more about other cultures, helps you in understanding the world around you.

I fully agree with Paula!

thinking innovatively

Although the target of this project has been the whole "teaching innovatively" aspect, particularly connected to the ICT angle, I think the actual privilege of visiting other countries, and experiencing for yourself other cultural environments, and other approaches to education, have an even more significant impact. Obviously, I speak for myself when I say I became a bit more relaxed in my attitude towards students, in the sense that I am perhaps more lenient to their occasional shortcomings. I noticed that seemingly laxer systems - at least compared to the Romanian one - such as the Swedish or the Spanish one, seem to yield good results nonetheless, so perhaps strict discipline and an even stricter enforcement of it, are not necessarily the only keys to a good educational system.

meet a lot of foreign people from different countries and differet cultures,lifestyle..

meeting new people, visiting other countries, all the experience ...
in two words : thinking innovatively

Despite the differences in education in the countries involved in the project, there is a common feeling I have perceived. This project, which is about innovation and the use of ICT, requires the use of computers mostly, however human interaction and the wellcoming attitude shown by everbody is what makes it really go forward so successfully.