PDW, Oslo, dag 2

ICT in Teaching and Learning
Kjell Atle Halvorsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Transforming the way we communicate, the way we learn… One of the reasons that teachers like interactive whiteboards is because they can keep the teaching practicing of the past putting in electricity…

What is web 2.0?

• A new generation of school internet services
  
• Rely on active user participation
  
• Play collective intelligence: Internet users work together
  
  • Youtube, blog, sms, animations, games, facebook (eTwinning is there), chat, podcasting, msn, google maps, videos, second Life
    

Google maps, putting in notes, pictures, facts

Do students leanr more with ICT?

Yes! … if we do it right … if we think differently

Should we use it to do more of the same – just a little more efficiently? To use the computer as a type-writer
or…
Pretty much the same - a lot more efficiently
or…
New stuff - different learning- more fun!

Open assignments, problem solving, collaboration, communication, student production, authentic learning, whole school engagement

 

A report about ICT impact in schools: http://life.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/misc/specialreports/impact_study.htm

Students on trac… The students make information for the streetcars signs. Mostly about the local history.