ArchaeoSchool for the Future

Abstract

Six secondary schools from Catalonia, Italy and Greece, a Venetian university, the Association of Doctor’s and Master’s Degree Holders of Catalonia, the Archaeological Museum of Kalamata (Greece), and an environmental education center in Kalamata work together in a European program under the Erasmus+ KA2 conditions to study different archaeological sites. They all share innovative teaching methodologies, like knowledge building, the ICE framework (Ideas, Connections, Extensions), reverse engineering using the 3D virtual app Edmondo, learning by doing, sustainability and a forward-looking approach. This article is about the implementation of the knowledge building theory in a European project, the benefits of applying this method and the relationship between the knowledge building principles and 21st-century skills. It also includes an example of one of the themes developed over the course of the 2016-17 academic year. This paper also presents evidence of the reverse engineering technique and the learning by doing method, since a group of students from the three countries are rebuilding, in the Edmondo app, the archaeological sites that they are studying.The connection between so many different people, multidisciplinary teams, and higher education and life-long learning professionals who are working together, allows the achievement of unsuspected learning levels.

Keywords: Knowledge building, Erasmus+ KA2, Knowledge Forum, reverse engineering, international projects, sustainability.