Cooperative skills, Project-Based Learning, School project, Social Media in Education

The need to introduce new educational technologies into the educational process is considered a necessary condition for the further development of pedagogical sciences and practice. Social media are one of the educational resources that take into account modern pedagogical approaches and are widely applicable at the level of primary education. The paper presents one of the effective ways of implementing social media in the environment of elementary schools in the Czech Republic with using the methods project-based learning. This method allows the application and interconnection of knowledge from various disciplines, motivates pupils to independent work, searching, discovering, team cooperation and communication; provides enough space for the development of pupils' key competencies. The basic idea of the described activity was to support the process of implementing new technologies in teaching, to strengthen cooperative skills of pupils, to introduce pupils to the cultural heritage of their region and promote the development of cooperation between schools within the partnership. The project also provided opportunities to meet the BYOD model when pupils use their own mobile devices in teaching.