ICT and learning

Examples fromLangkaer Gymnasium

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Introducing Langkaer GymnasiumThe Danish School System• Compulsory primary

school, 9 years• Technical, business, or

upper secondary school• Universities

Langkaer Gymnasium• Upper secondary

school, 3 years• Integrated use of ICT• Website • Portal• First Class

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A project; Presidential elections in the USA

• 1st year students• Danish, History, and English: US history

and culture • One week to work out a presentation• Independent formulations of investigation

areas• Voluntary lectures on politics, history and

religion in the USA

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Various ICT toolsFirst Class

- mail system

- chat system

- project room

- digital log

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Various ICT toolsBrowser for the internet

Presentation programme

On line evaluation

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an example

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Challenging the pupil- From pupil to student -

• The pupil becomes a student

• Formulating his/her own goals for the learning process

• Controlling the personal learning process

• Finding relevant information

• Organizing and formulating knowledge on their own

• Production of knowledge rather than just re-production

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Challenging the teacher• The teacher primarily functions as a consultant

• f2f

• Decreasing control – in traditional terms - of the learning process

• Setting the students ‘free’

• New forms of evaluation with focus on both process and product

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But why ICT?• ICT removes problems concerning space and time

– the students can communicate any where, any time– the students can contact the teacher any where, any

time– the students can collect and exchange information any

where, any time

• ICT gives access to knowledge– in principle the students can draw on a global pool of

knowledge

• ICT makes saving – and sharing – knowledge easier– the students can, individually and/or together create

records of notes and presentations (portfolio) and thus register their progress and use it for exams

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Saving and sharing

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Empowerment

‘Learning for Life’• Awareness of learning strategies• Acting responsibly in a democracy• Navigation in an increasingly

globalized world• Communication of knowledge across

geographical and cultural borders

Marie-Louise Ebert Lauritsen

ml@langkaer.dk

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Building virtual communities

Networking between two Danish upper secondary schools

Knud Erik Oestergaard

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Langkaer and Toender

• Two similar secondary schools

• Separated by distance (200 km)

• Two groups of students

• Working with the same biological subjects

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Teaching is communication

• F2F – face to face – communication

• SNACK– Written - Net based - Asynchrony -

Computer - Communication

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Virtual communication

• Synchronic

• Video and voice

• Easy and well known software

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The Students

• Always on line

• The subject of communication is themselves

• Relate education with social happenings

• Barriers are shyness and language

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Hello - this is your teacher…

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Commercials…

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