TOWARDS ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP USING ICT

Eleni Christopoulou and Dimitrios Ringas
Department of Informatics
Ionian University
and
Second Chance School of Corfu
Greece

The objective of this paper is to present the achieved results and the lessons learned from a Grundtvig II Learning Partnership entitled “Active Citizenship”, that focus on the use of innovative application of ICT tools with the purpose to further active citizenship. We present the methodologies that we applied while teaching Informatics at the Second Chance School of Corfu, which evolved around three axes; active citizens are informed, open-minded and act locally while thinking globally. Our overall aim was not merely to teach our adult learners ICT skills, but to motivate them to embrace ICT as means to alter their daily attitude.

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