LIGHTHOUSES AND STATIONS, TRIP TO ITHACA

The dictionary will be an intellectual output resulting from several inter-generational activities whose aim is that students should improve their skills in languages, ICT, and practical questions in order to survive in a foreign country.

Elderly people will tell words or phrases that they used to need or find useful in the past. It will be used in the classroom as an educational assistant and a go-to-tool for teachers and students alike. At the same time, it will be used in everyday life for easy and simple understanding of terms users will encounter when using ICT for job searching, communication with future employers or just connecting with their friends and colleagues. Along with the usage of the Dictionary in ICT classroom, it can be used for learning other languages - in this sense, words in English in the Dictionary will serve as "bridges" from one language to the other.

Besides, the dictionary will include a section on vocabulary about ICT that will contain the words most widely used in new technologies and in all kind of leaflets about electronic appliances, shopping on line, etc that are essential for communication.

Lessons for survival is a place of cultural and generational exchange. The goal is to help students and teachers exchange lessons they have learned and drawn from a wide variety of educational and pedagogical experiences in order to help all those struggling with a new culture and striving to make a new life in an unknown country.

All the lessons about life from every generation can be used for an easier understanding of the new culture. We will use handbooks with instructions, on line forms as examples to make the didactic units transferibles to similar institutions.

We are going to organize face to face meetings and debates in each country with the students who have been working and communicating on-line between meetings. The aim is for all the students to work together on the DICTIONARY AND LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY and improve competence in ICTs and languagues (specially English).