ICT at schools in the City of Linköping. The education system Pre-school Pre-school class...

ICT at schools in the City of Linköping

The education system

Pre-school

Pre-school class

Compulsory school

Upper secondary school

Universities and university colleges (undergraduate and graduate studies)

Age

1-5

6

7

15

16

18

1

10

9

12

13171821

Adult education

Years of study

Who bears responsibility for schools?

Government determine the curricula, national goals and

guidelines Municipalities

decides how the work within the schools should be organised and implemented

Schools decide on their own organisation and how

to achieve the goals

ICT projects in Linköping Started about ten years ago

1992 ICT for girls and their parents 1995 the first Internet coffee shop in Sweden at

Berzeliusskolan 1996-1998 The ”BIT-project”

(Building bridges with IT) 1999-2002 The national action plan for

ICT in school (ITiS) with a lot of local facilities 2003 - ICT is a tool for learning on a regular

basis!?

The BIT-project 1996-1998

The City of Linköping in cooperation with the KK-foundation

A project budget of totally 3 000 000 Euro

Hundreds of subprojects divided into three main tracks

New pedagogy To increase interest in science and technology Schools-Library-Museum in ICT cooperation

ICT in schools (ITiS) 1999-2002

Supported by the government 1100 teachers in 160 teams participated

Most parts of the BIT-project continued in order to support ITiS with extra facilities (With funding from the municipality) Information literacy - 1500 teachers Web based support for historical research A newspaper project for students and teacher

teams

Use ICT for information retrieval and communication

Realize what kind of information you need Define the problem area and formulate questions Choose among different sources and search

effectively Examine and process the information and

transform to knowledge Use the information, interpret, analyze, draw

conclusions and solve the problem

Information literacy

“The history gateway”

Web based support for historical research

A large quantity of Web based material

Produced in cooperation with schools, the County Museum and the University of Linköping

Reporter- a newspaper project

A Public Private Partnership (PPP) including schools, the local newspaper and the software company Textalk

The main purpose is to stimulate the use of a more investigative method of working at our schools

ICT facilities

All schools are linked together in a common network with connection to the Internet

Common servers for storage of software and data

All pupils and teachers have their own e-mail account accessible from any Internet browser

Internet connection Almost every computer is connected to

the Internet No restricted access (no filters) All schools have their own websites Teachers can publish own and student

material on the Web directly from their own computers

The network is divided in two parts

adm.linkoping.se computers and servers for

employees 3 000 users, 2 500 computers

edu.linkoping.se computers and servers for

students 20 000 users, 5 000

computers

Type of connection

25 km

Fiber 100 Mbps 2MbpsCompulsory schools 39 17Upper secondary schools 6

Network resources

Individual folders for server storage of documents

Common folders for each school for server storage of documents and software

E-mail with individual accounts for all pupils and employees

MS Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Network in school buildings

Each room in all schools is equipped with one data outlet connected to adm or edu network

If more than one computer is to be connected in the same room, the school has to set up a small network

Automation and support

All computer- and email-accounts for pupils are automatically generated from a common data system where all pupils are registered

All schools have their own ICT-coordinator who can manage forgotten passwords etc

Success factors

Do not forget the principal Choose robust technology Listen to the teachers Take your time

it often takes more than 5 years to introduce new pedagogical tools

Encourage partnerships Think “after the project”

Questions?

soren.thornell@linkoping.se

Linköpings kommunPedagogiskt centrumAtt. Sören ThornellSE-581 81 LINKÖPINGSweden

+46 13 207438