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Description of the project
In recent years, there have been constant and rapid changes in the field of education as well as in many other fields. One of those
changes in the field of education is that conventional teaching-learning techniques and methods have been superseded by student
centered teaching-learning approach which promotes 21st century skills as well as basic and high level competences. As a result
of those changes most of older teaching&learning techniques and methods became outdated and they failed to motivate students
and call students’ attention during lessons. In addition, teachers’, students’, even parents’ role in teaching and learning has
changed, too. However, most of teachers and students are not aware of this situation. So, they still keep teaching and learning
through conventional methodologies.
Also, today’s students spend almost all of their out of school time with ICT tools or on virtual social networks. So,
conventional teaching methodologies and classroom environments are not appealing for them.
On the other hand, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released an education report, in 2015,
based on test scores of students aged 15 in maths and science. The report was based on the most comprehensive ever global
education research in 76 countries. According to that report, we (Turkey) ranked 41st, our project partners Estonia ranked 7th,
Portugal ranked 30th, Italy ranked 28th and Romania ranked 44th among the 76 participating countries. Unfortunately, the report
clearly showed the project partners’ (Romania, Turkey, Italy and Portugal) poor performance in the maths and science test.
In conjunction with this result, our project partners also cannot get the expected results from natural science as well as from social
science. In addition, today’s students do not like studying, doing homework and most of them are lack of basic skills such as sense
of responsibility, problem solving, entrepreneurship, creativity, collaboration, analytical thinking, critical thinking, finding and
evaluating knowledge, communication, learning to learn, lifelong learning, higher order skills, researching and so on. On the other
hand, today’s students use technology only for entertainment rather than for self-improvement. However, digital media is full of rich
learning resources and practical learning softwares and applications. They all imply that there is something wrong with the way we
teach maths and science, as well as with the way we teach literacy.