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Promoter:

Service for vocational education and training

Partner in this project:

VLAJO Innovation and incubation centre

Main goals:

The main goal of this project is to stimulate and develop the key-competences (that have been launched in the lifelong learning vision and that are essential for anyone to make it on the labour market) andthis from a very early age on.

Pupils in primary school have to know what their talents are, they have to be able to estimate their own competences and have to be able to collect the necessary documents that proof these competences. It is a mentality change that can only be a successful one when teachers, trainers, coordinators and directors also believe in its necenssity and its importance for the future of their pupils. In order to implement this thinking process in education, starting already at the primary leel, a clair pedagogic and didactical support and strategy is needed.Teaching equals guiding steering, mediating, and supporting. The teacher becomes the guide and the mentor. As seen in previous projects this demands that mentality change. But what we often see in the classroom is still a very traditional chalk and talk way of the teaching and communicating with pupils.

Teaching today is linked permanently with ICT. It's a basic competence, which is essential on the labour market, and for which education is a good starting point to get the basic competences. Education has the official and social duty to offer access to ICT and give the basic ICT skills to all its pupils, especially the ones who don't have the access at home. Education knows that ICT is essential for anyone's future, but still we have to recognise that the inequality in competences and access still exists, if not, becomes bigger. Some children are privileged, supported at home and driven with the newest ICT tools, but some of them don't have any ICT background what so ever. In this project we will try to bridge the ict gap by introducing a free online tool, which can be a part of the schools curricula.

Final target group:

Pupils in primary education, aged 11 - 12 and pupils in secondary education, aged 12 - 13.

Intermediate target group:

Teachers, directors, study coordinators

Starting date:

1st of January 2010

Launchevent:

4 Oktober 2011
Hadewychauditorium Consciencegebouw
Koning Albert II-laan 15
1210 Brussels

Projectmanagement DBO:

Nathalie Briessinck - nathalie.briessinck@ond.vlaanderen.be