The Future of Education

PISA results have been showing that the acquisition of subject content and digital and communicative competences of pre-university students from several European countries is not very successful. When using digital tools, most pupils, and sometimes students at the University, just copy and paste, which cannot help in the learning of significant content in any subject, on the contrary bad habits are favoured in learning such as copying without reasoning. On the other hand communicative competence is extremely poor in young people, so lecturers and researchers from six Universities,-Alcalá University (Spain), Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia), Leicester University (United Kingdom), Lisbon University (Portugal), Helsinki University (Finland), and Karadeniz Technical University (Turkey)- have worked in a European project ‘An INTegral Teacher Training for Developing Digital and Communicative Competences and Subject Content Learning at Schools (intTT)’, financed by the European Commission.. The project intended to improve subject content learning, communicative and digital competences in an integrated methodology used at primary and secondary schools, consequently the project was addressed to teacher training students in Universities, and didactic materials were designed to develop both competences and, at the same time, to foster subject content acquisition in school pupils.

This paper will briefly describe project aims and didactic materials, focussing on some of the materials dealing with Art, addressed to school teachers, student teachers and pupils. Criteria on the design, pedagogical properties, subject content accuracy and implementation of the materials at schools will also be remarked in this paper. Examples of the materials will be shown and commented too.