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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?
Linköpings kommunPedagogiskt centrumAtt. Sören ThornellSE-581 81 LINKÖPINGSweden
+46 13 207438
