The Electronic Bulletin of
CREA Project
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http://www.uca.es/crea
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 BULLETIN Nº 6 19-04-2002
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The analysis that next is described it seeks to pick up the impact that the CREA project is taking place in the participant centers and to value the key aspects that are approached (the CREAtivity, the learning in collaboration and the use of the ICT) keeping in mind the faculty and students' opinion.
The CREA project as a stimulus for the students
The integration of this project in the curriculum of the pupil of Secondary has give to them a high motivation degree and interest for its learning. They have lived the learning more as an entertainment that as a boredom, with a total participation fundamentally in activities related with the computer and the Information and the Communication Technologies.
Working with CREA activities is translated in working in team and it has favored the relationships among partners CREAting a spirit of help, cooperation and shared learning. As they describe 'this type of work has given us the opportunity to discover what we can do ourselves.'
Equally, the participation in the project has allowed to establish a learning net beyond our frontiers putting in contact different educational communities and diverse cultures, what has taken to an inCREAse of interest on the part of the pupil, in collaborating and being related with students of other countries.
The CREA project as facilitator of knowledge and experiences with the ICT
The installation of this project in the Educational Centres has put in contact the pupil of Secondary with the Technology of the Information and the Communication. With the integration of these in the school curriculum the students of each Centre have lived the importance of this technology in our days, the talkative possibilities that they offer and the necessity to learn how to use them.
Their experiences have taken them to define the computer like an ally that helps them to develop their ideas as to work in team.
The CREA project and the endowment of resources
The participation in this European project has had positive repercussions for the participant Centers (Educational Centre Ignaciano, Institut d L´Alma and Externato do Escravas Sacred do Coracao and Colegio Nuestra Señora de Lourdes), and it is that these has been endowed of the necessary technological resources to take them to the practice. There are schools that lacked multimedia classroom and at the present time they enjoy it and centers like the CNSL that have passed of having an obsolete room to have an appropriate classroom with enough computer equipment and an amplification of the infrastructures (digital camera, canyon, scanner...)
The CREA project like stimulus of change for the faculty
The CREA project has had a good welcome on the part of the faculty who has seen in it the possibility to work in team and to exchange experiences with other teachers of other countries.
To participate in this educational project it has made them to meditate their educational practice and to see the necessity of a change in their teaching: to learn new participative and motivating methodologies; to centre more in the strategies than in the objectives and contents; to break up with the rigidity of the curriculum and to favor the divergent thought.
The CREA project and the dissemination of experiences
The CREA project becomes a communication mean with the objective of disclosing and disseminating the experience. This project uses opportunities like those that offers the television, the press or Internet, to give to know a new educational experience in which the integration of the new technologies is sought in the secondary education but also, the European integration in the environment of the education.
From this vision, disseminating the results that are being got with the CREA project becomes one of the main objectives since on one hand, what is sought is that this experience stays once the project has concluded and on the other, to give the opportunity to the people of knowing new experiences of integration of the ICT in the curriculum and to participate of them if they want this way.
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