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Languages, technology and learning:European developments
Roger Blamire
European Schoolnet
Udine December 2009
1: European Schoolnet is for schools
•School collaboration e.g. eTwinning
• Teaching materials e.g. The Learning Resource Exchange
•Projects and competitions e.g. Xplora
•Internet safety guidance e.g. Insafe
•ICT evidence and good practice e.g. STEPS
2: STEPS: Study of the impact of technology in primary schools
•Approach
•Results
•Impact on learners, teachers, schools
•Recommendations
Approach and Methodology : Multiple perspectives
Birmingham UK
Teacher survey: 18,000 interviews
60 research studies,22 countries
Policy survey:30 Correspondents
School survey:255 respondents
25 case studies, 13 countries
Impact on learners /1:Knowledge, skills and competences
• Skills and competences developed • Subject understanding is enhanced• Provision for individual needs improved
• Learners may lack basic computer skills • Discrepancy between home and school ICT
Romania: maths
Impact on learners /2: Motivation, confidence and engagement in learning
• Higher levels of motivation and attention, say 87% of teachers
• More active participation •Low motivation, social division
and disengagement overcome
•Collaborative learning supported•Guided, enquiry-based tasks work• Learning outside school supported• Parental engagement improved
Italy: Twinning with Bucharest
Impact on learners /3:Sophisticated and individualised assessment
• Sophisticated feedback on performance
• Value of virtual learning environments
• Achievement recorded in e-portfolios
Estonia: e-diary
Impact on teachers /1:Teachers use ICT and are ‘ICT-optimistic’
FI
DK
UK
SE
NO
NL
MT
CY
DE
IE
CZ
SIIT
SK
IS
ATES
LUFR
BE
EE
PT
LT
PL
HU
EL
LV
EU average
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• Three in four teachers use ICT• Range of pedagogies supported• Constructivist learning environments leverage ICT value
• Teachers in some countries are more ICT-optimistic than in others• There is a sceptical 21%• Low correlation between levels of
equipment, use and skills and ICT-optimism
Impact on teachers /2: ICT is pedagogically under-used
• Lack of pedagogical vision• New pedagogical approaches only if integrated into subjects
• Use for administration, organisation and planning
Finland: collaborative learning
Impact on teachers /3:Motivation and digital and pedagogical skills
Spain: on-site training
• Motivation and teaching skills improved
• Ideal = step by step, on-site training, minimal disruption
• Little ICT training for new teachers• Courses lack practical dimension• Little technical / pedagogical support
Impact on schools /1:Children’s access to technology is improving
• Almost all primary schools use computers
• Large variation in infrastructure across and within countries
• IWB provision ranges from very few to all schools
- 88+% in each country have internet access- 8 internet computers per 100 learners- 8 countries have more than 14 computers per 100 learners- 72% of the primary schools have broadband internet - In 2/3 of countries over 2/3 of schools have broadband
- Ten-fold range: 3.1 to 32 computers per 100 pupils - Smaller primary schools are disadvantaged
How does Italy compare?
Recommendations
• Increase, improve and diversify teacher education and support
• Build ICT into general educational policies
• Focus on a vision for learning
• Allow for initiativein assessment
• Ensure access to quality equipment and learning resources
• Emphasise pedagogy not ICT
• Capitalise on learners’ ICT competence and exploit the reach of technology to families
• Invest in school leaders’ training to lead change
• Develop roles and responsibilities for ICT ICT and pedagogical support
• Complement the current picture by exploiting other methods and topics
• Establish a long term and continuous monitoring system on the impact of ICT in schools
• Provide a toolkit for indicator use by schools and policy-makers
• Improve the flow of knowledge of what works between countries.
EDUCATION POLICY SCHOOLS RESEARCH EU COOPERATION
3: Language teaching with technology
•Resources used by language teachers
•Examples of practice
YouTube: Using Google maps
Teachers’ TV: Using Moodle
Blogs: Using Wordle
Yahoo groups: Sharing resources
eTwinning: i-voix
eTwinning: L’albatros
Teachers - the key to effective learning