[Extendt2_omt] Re: Pilot school inteventions Year 1 - partners involved

Dear all, I hope you had a refreshing and relaxing holiday! This is just a reminder for the following email, to share your thoughts and plans on implementing a small pilot study in the first year. In this excel, in the "Targets-Plans" tab, you can find a table with the numbers promised for each year for school interventions (on the left) and a suggested plan of how they can be distributed between partners (on the right). This is an indicative plan, based on the PMs each partner has in WP5. It can change accordingly as long as we reach the targets Can you please have a look at the excel and the attached email and share your ideas/plans by this Friday the 13th? We can also discuss this point in the OMT meeting this Friday. @Shamim, can you add 15 minutes to the agenda for this point, so that we don't use WPs updates time?  Best wishes for a happy new year, Marianthi Grizioti   Dear all, We found out that there are 2 different things mentioned in the proposal (attached) regarding the partners who will do pilot school interventions in Year 1 On page 11, Cycle 1 descritpion, i.e. Y1 , writes that "The evaluation (WP7) will take an in-depth look at the implementation of Exten.(D.T.)2 activities in two classrooms in each country." On page 32, WP5 Task 5.2, writes that "[...] implementation of pilot interventions by 1-2 partners in a school setting. It will engage a small number of students (~100 students) for the initial testing of Exten.(D.T.)2 technologies (WP4) and resources (WP3)." So we have to decide what we will do to reach the numbers and stick with what we have promised Regardless the above, it is probably a good idea that each partner does at least one small pilot intervention for this year, e.g. 1 teacher and 8-10 students, for the following reasons: 1) If all partners are involved in year 1 piloting they will provide valuable feedback on the evaluation, the intervention process and the technologies which will then be a strong baseline for designing year 2 tools and resources 2) With piloting, partners will develop the necessary experience and background for year 2 implementations, which are full studies and with a much higher number of students. Otherwise we may face the issue of year 2 turning to be the pilot phase for some partners instead of a full study. 3) We don't know if the reviewer and the PO will notice that so, it is better to stick with the scenario that promises the most, i.e. all partners do piloting, rather than the less. Please let us know what you think on that. A reminder: In this excel you can see the planned school interventions and insert your infromation Best regards, Marianthi   -- Marianthi Grizioti (PhD) Post-doc researcher & software developer Educational Technology Lab (ETL)  Department of Educational Studies National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Research Gate | Academia | LinkedIn Χωρίς ιούς.www.avast.com -- Marianthi Grizioti (PhD) Post-doc researcher & software developer Educational Technology Lab (ETL) Department of Educational Studies National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece