Workshop: TEL around the worldWorkshop organizer: Tanja Kohn

Date: 29.4.2014

TEL around the world

by Tanja Kohn

About me

• PhD student for maaaany years• Interests in education, TEL and

ICT4D• 3 Summer Schools• 2 Winter Schools• Ups & downs• No real interest of my supervisor

in the topic

About this workshop

• TEL around the world• great opportunity being in an international community• topic of interest

• How can you profit of it?• good to know about different projects in your field of interests• no matter if you are from the technical or the pedagocgical party• learning from other projects especially if you are stucked with an issue

About this workshop

• Discussion-based workshop• Hopefully enriching your point of views, your ideas, …• Interdisciplinary fields of research

• Did you prepare for the workshop?

olpc – One Laptop per Child

• Vision• Mission• Deployment• Educational vs laptop project

The project failed in Peru regarding using the full potential of ICT4Dand regarding olpc‘s principles BUT many people got access to resources they would have never

been able to access without the XO

Some of the XO models

1) Prototype 2005 2) XO-1 3) XO-1,5 HS 4) XO-3

Sources:1) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:Laptop-crank.jpg, viewed 02-07-2012) http://laptop.org/, viewed 29-03-201033) http://www.the-digital-reader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/XO-1.5.jpg, viewed 02-07-2013 HS high school4) http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/xo3.shtml, viewed 02-07-2013

XO deployment by June 2010

Source: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/3/3a/Olpc-countries-jun-2010.jpg

Tasks

1) Discuss in a small team:• Are there any specific project or programs in your country?• What are the projects you know around the world?Prepare little notes about the TEL project

2) Present shortly the TEL project and add the notes to the map

Discussion

Reflect about:• How is TEL integrated in the school system in your country?• Is TEL accepted in primary, secondary and higher education?

• Comparison of approaches and attempts of successful TEL• TEL acceptance • Different ways of getting along with TEL among generations• …

TEL projects overview

Wrap up

• MOOCs entered educational systems and influence teaching andcontents (reported from an example in Israel)

• Distance learning projects for remote areas (reported from Croatia)• High-end ICT projects in educational systems (reported from Estonia)• Very poor ICT infrastructure in most of the countries (Germany,

Austria, Russia, Croatia, Sahara, Nepal, …)• Centralisim influences highly TEL adaptation aspects (reported from

Russia)• Some projects belong to political issues with a political commitment

Other topics for discussion

• What can we learn from the youngest?• How do they (naturally) use technology to enhance and facilitate their

learning process?• Why does it need so much effort to convince and teach most of the

older ones how to integrate technology in their teaching?• Don’t we try to make something fit in our “adult world” what already

runs well among the younger ones?• Why are students often not allowed to use their mobile devices in

class?• Do we really have to disconnect school from reality of students?

What is the future of education?

Thanks for attending and contributing to this workshop!