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Catch It
Communication-Attitudes-Technology-Community-Health-International-Teenagers
Web site: http://www.boknskule.no/en/
Catch IT is a project concerned with developing ICT skills as a means of immediate correspondence and publication. The project has established a web site called Catch IT. This web site functions as our common publication device, offering unique access to the material produced by the other participants. Web tools like discussion boards and e- groups are meant to secure effective exchange of information.
However, the implementation of ICT is only a means of making our work with the other aims visible to our partners and the local community. The main perspective of this project is to use local communities as a starting point for surveys into issues like youth problems, health, cultural heritage, trade, industry and other aspects of the present, past and future context we find ourselves in.
We believe that by working on the same issues at each school making the results available at the web site, we will provide the pupils and staff involved with a unique first hand information inviting to comparative studies. This will lead to the ability to empathise with and tolerate other individuals, raising an awareness of national and transnational identity through knowledge of local communities and individuals in other countries.”
Catch IT and the theme of MIGRATION
Within the Comenius 1 Schoolproject Catch IT we worked on the theme “Migration” during the second year. The students from Sweden studied the Swedish emigration to America and wrote articles about this. As many of our students have a foreign background they also wrote their own families migration story.
This year, the third in the project, we had our project meeting for both students and teachers in Lurgan, Northern Ireland.
Since we were there we had the opportunity to visit Ulster American Folk Park, an outdoor museum of Emigration, and to learn something about the Irish emigration to America. We also met Evelyn Cardwell, the Education Officer at the Park and the co-ordinator for MIR on the Island of Ireland.
During the project meeting the students and teachers from our partner-countries together decided that this year’s theme would be health. They also drew the lines how the work should be done during the year, which is our third, and last in the project.
We are happy to mention that our project not only have been a success for us participating in the project, teachers as well as students, but it is also recognised as a good example of school-projects by the National EU-office in Norway.
We hope that this project will continue in another form and possibly new partners can be included.
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