“EuroKids 24 News” is an Erasmus + project started in September 2017 designed to create an international channel news controlled by students from five European schools in France, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Spain, where they created school radios and newspapers to publish their news about different topics: everyday life at school, local news, national news and international news, as well as news about other topics, such as weather, sports and likes.
Students have published their oral and written piece of news both in each of their five native languages, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Spanish and Romania, and in the foreign language they are learning, mainly English, even though also Spanish and French, so both students and adults from their national countries and other European schools could communicate one with another, access other school's news and share them worldwide.
Online school radios were mainly created through the radio broadcaster www.spreaker.com, so radio shows are both easily available live through the internet or through radio podcast channels (iTunes, iVoox, etc.) searching for EuroKids 24 News.
Online newspapers are published in each of the five national languages blogs of each school partners (i.e. EuroKids24Spain.blogspot.com, EuroKids24France.blogspot.com, EuroKids24Poland.blogspot.com, EuroKids24Romania.blogspot.com and EuroKids24Bulgaria.blogspot.com),
and also in the common international project blog in English, the international language of communication between teachers and students from the country members (EuroKids24.blogspot.com)
Newspaper articles was created by students from each of the country members through the online tool Adobe Spark, where they will choose a title and a subtitle, write the information for the topic they are covering, and will finally design each article guided by their teachers, other groups of students and the project coordinators.
The main reasons to carry out this project in an international way was: first exchanging experiences about school radio and newspaper with other European schools; second using media to research and exchange cultural facts and information about the countries participating in the project; third, and finally motivating the students to communicate with other students using the foreign language and developing their XXIst century skills: creativity, communication, access to digital media and technology, critical thinking, life skills and collaboration between students and teachers at school and international level.
The main methodology principles we will use when working with students in this project are: project based learning, learner centred approach, cooperative and collaborative work and finally integrating new technologies and media in the learning/teaching process.
See you soon and keep tuned!
EuroKids 24 News