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International ICT-Collaboration

Successful practice from the history of ESPto meet future educational challenges

The 25th Anniversary Conference of theEuropean Schools Project Association

Helsingør – Denmark

Henk Sligte – NederlandUniversity of Amsterdam

Kohnstamm Institute for Educational Research Board of the ESP Association

The Skinny Bridge Amsterdam 1840 AD

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Greetings from RomaniaDear Henk With a part of my soul I will be in Denmark. Please send my best regards to all the ESP friends. Wish you one of the best conferences ever had and an enchanting spring to everyone! I am looking forward to hearing the Conferece news next week. My best wishes and all my kisses to ESP!! See you soon, Claudia

Innovating EducationthroughInternational ICT-Collaboration

Schools as Vital Learning Centres having meaningful and sustainableinternational Connections with other schools and with the World • as Information Society (resources) and • as Global Village (communication & collaboration)

From 1900: ‘In the year 2000’

2011: the connected school

You in classroom

• Remember your first time?• What you did then?• What you do now?• What you want to do?• What chances?• What obstacles?• What would your ‘ideal’ teaching and

school be?• Dreams?

How time flies....

• Your first PC• Your first e-mail• Your first surf on the Web• Your first digital photo• Your first mobile phone, first SMS• When you used it for the first time, and

when in your education?• Is it all not longer ago than 15 (10) years?• What about 2020? Will we learn & teach

differently? Will schools be the same?

Innovating Education throughInternational ICT-Collaboration

FACTORS THAT SHOULD BE IN BALANCE WITH EACH OTHER

Successful practice from the history of ESP

to meet future educational challenges

ESP-Conferences

1. London2. Amsterdam3. Groburgwedel4. Humlebaek5. Lenham6. Toledo7. Schwerte8. Amsterdam

9. Cambridge10. Leuven 11. Portoroz12.

Copenhagen

13. Tartu14.

Haugesund15. Rendsburg16. Malmö

17. Roma18. Prague19. Järvenpää20. Amsterdam21. Piešt’any22. A Coruña23. Tartu24. London

25. Helsingør

Working conferences for and by Educators Creating Innovative Collaborative projects with ICT Improving & extending community of learners

Amsterdam - Telegraph Creek

GeographyEnglish Language

1987

6 teachers80 pupils

One of the first experiments in the worldPre-Internet

Two schools

TELETRIP Conversation Theory

Fidonet, EARN, JANET, BITNET

From Peter Hyde at Tahltan School in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, Canada6 years ago we didnt even have telephones here and we had to rely on short wave radio, so to be able to send messages in this manner is a big change for us. We only get mail trucked in here once a week, so electronic mail is certainly faster than the regualr mail!!The first concept which is very difficult for Europeans to understand about northern B.C. is distance. Our nearest neighbour is a village, 120 km from here. Our population in this village is 350, and our neighbour, Dease Lake, has a population of 400. It is a 770 km drive to our nearest town, called Terrace. It has a population of only 16,000. Along the drive to Terrace you only pass through 3 villages, non with more than 500 people living in them. This is so different from Europe! Imagine driving 770 km from Amsterdam and only passing through three little villages!

the first ‘electronic fieldtrip’ with this first ‘letter’ from Donna.

Hi! My name is Donna. I am 17 and in Grade 9.Pretty bad eh?! There are no guys or girls my age in this school. As a matter of fact there are only 50 students in this school form age 5 to my age. Just like some of you guys, "I don’t like some of the teachers in this school", but I do like my Teacher, David.One thing I don’t like about school is that it starts at 8:45 in the morning.My birthday is in January, and I have one brother and a sister who has a son and new baby girl. My mom is in my home town, so my boy friend (21) lives with me at my place. In the future I would like to graduate, then get married and have children, all within the next 3 or 4 years.There is not much excitement around this little village, so there is a lot of drinking (I don’t drink any more), so it's nice to have a motorbike or something to keep you amused.Bye, Donna.P.S. Write soon!!! This is neat!!! Like really Rad!

The first European Triangle

AmsterdamGroßburgwedel

Lenham

EcologyPoetry

1988

First lessons

• When one school uses the mother tongue, and other schools use a foreign language, there is an imbalance. Better is it to use a mutual foreign language: learning effects at all sites.

• Good appointments for frequency of messages

• Balance in ages, in prior knowledge• Interaction: not only sending messagesthinkwriteread againsend|||||readreactpose questionssend• Netiquette: Golden Rules

Started in Groburgwedel 1989by Lone Hagen & Thomas PetersCONTENT

30 TEACHERS FROM UK50 TEACHERS FROM SIX OTHER COUNTRIES55 PROJECTS PLANNED; 32 DONE19 IN GERMAN; 9 IN ENGLISH

Show your portrait

Humour: different

or?

Holidays

Das Bild der Anderen

Literature Everyday Statistics

School-newspaper

Remembering

A teenager in [a town]

Traditions Everyday life

School and Spare time

International Calendar

School and Home life

Chemistry

Astronomy Aquadata

TeleprojectsInternational (CSC)Learning

Making meaningful connections between:• Pupils,Teachers, Schools, CulturesPut clear subjects central• Make sure pupils can have interesting conversations

on the subjectsUsing languages:• Mutual foreign languageUsing different forms and tools of ICT and Media:• Asynchronous (e-mail etc)• Synchronous (chat, videoconferencing etc)• Integrated in environments (eJournals, Moodle etc)Meaningful= for learning + for teaching + for schools

Glimpses from the 9th ESP Conference in Cambridge, England, 1995

2001 - 2004 COMENIUS3

eJournalism

The ESP Association Founded in 2005

to sustain Comenius 3 networks plus ESP

The association aims at the improvement, and the promotion of (ICT-based) innovation of education in Europe and beyond. It attempts to achieve its aims, by:•    promoting collaboration and cooperation between pupils, students, educators and researchers,•    availing access to international networks, •    promoting and supporting professional development of teachers and educators,•    developing innovative concepts, instruments and content,•    performing research,•    and in addition by (helping) generating all ideas to make and keep our schools good places for children and adults to be in, for continuously educating responsive and responsible participants in future society.  

1987 1997 20112001 2004

European Schools Project

ECOLE

COMP@CT

ESPAssociation2005

ESP as Umbrella OrganisationFor many many collaborative projects For many many initiativesConnecting networksConnecting countries, schools, teachers, pupilsLearning of human beings in all their diversity with technology as medium

ESP needs active members!!

• A learning Community of Practitioners in Education

• ESP is open to all kinds of bottom-up initiatives around ICT-innovation of education

• Help improve and extend websites• Develop new and enhance existing content• Collect new applications of ICT and help

spread the news• Find and motivate new teachers to join• Become famous • Talk to the Board!!!

What works in schools?School-Level Factors:• A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum• Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback• Parent and Community Involvement• Safe and Orderly Environment• Collegiality and ProfessionalismTeacher-Level Factors:• Instructional strategies• Classroom management• Classroom curriculum designStudent-Level Factors:• Home Environment• Learned Intelligence and Background Knowledge• Student Motivation

Robert Marzano based on 35 years of educational research

Factors at pupil-level

• Schools cannot do everything…• 20% of difference in pupil achievements

can be explained by school factors• 80% by background factors of pupils:

– Home environment– Learned Intelligence and Background

Knowledge– Student Motivation

• But schools can help in these…• And ESP as well>>>

What can the school do for these ?

• Home situation: – Create and maintain connections between

school and home, especially by giving information and courses on how to create a supportive environment for learning at home

• Intelligence & Background knowledge: 1. Deepen the experience base: excursions,

collaboration with organisations outside of school, support in creating life experiences

2. Pay always attention to language(s) also in non-language lessons

What can the school do for these ?

• Motivation: – Be positive; focus on achievements, not on

failures– Create activities and assignments that are

intrinsically attractive: • trigger curiosity, fantasy and inspiration (the

Flow);• projects that foster collaboration, posing

critical questions, group work– Teach pupils what motivation is, how it works

and how it influences them: they get more grip on how their processes of thinking and acting work

Factors at (individual) teacher-level

• Pedagogical approach and instructional strategies– Knowing what is effective; guard and monitor

what and how pupils learn in CSCL-projects • Classroom management

– Good relation between teacher-pupil; pupil-pupils– Also in international project work

• (Re)design of the programme (curriculum)– Not only rigid methods: keep on looking what

works for your pupils– Also in using ESP-materials: keep on adjusting to

your and your pupils’ needs and wants

School-Level Factors

• A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum– Enriched by ESP-work

• Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback– Use this in international CSCL

• Parent and Community Involvement– Connect the school to the outside

• Safe and Orderly Environment• Collegiality and Professionalism

– Learn from and with the Other– No closed classrooms

• Is the system ‘wrong’?

SOS of the SOS

Save Our Schools of the Sick Organisation Syndrome

• Insulitis: the island disease (time, content, closed classrooms)

• Technophobia: the fear for technologyESP = Building Bridges with ICTBridges for Learning Bridging Best PracticesBridging Visions for LearningBridging Intercultural Diversity through Global

Learning

We still do not know everything…

• Factors that influence learning (outcomes) when doing international CSCL-projects??

• Research into learning & cognition• 3D-games lead to more lucid dreams: you

dream 3D, you remember better, you can actually choose how to act, and the direction in which you go in your dream

• Culture of MSN, Hyves, Facebook: other social learning, other cultures? For adults, parents and teachers: other ununderstandable behaviour of young people? Digital natives?

Brain maturation not at the same time

• Early development is not sign of giftedness• In secondary education: brain still very much in

development• Especially metacognitive skills limited• Connection between intelligence and maturation

of the frontal cortex• The more intelligent the pupil, the later the

maturation• Possibly: at 14 behind; at 18 ahead• Room in schools for individual attunement to

biological factors

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at

Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a

wrod are

SMS

My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2c my bro,

his GF & thr 3 kids. ILNY, it’s a gr8 plc

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

Count the White Passes in silence!

The Mind Once Expanded to

the Dimensions of Larger Ideas Never returns to its Original Size

Innovating Education throughInternational ICT-Collaboration

CSCL-projects as innovative practice• Internet-based interactions & collaborations between

teachers and pupils around ‘conversation’ topics relevant for learning and teaching of all participants in the project.

• The topics and projects demand active & authentic learning (often in ‘the world’ outside of school)

• They demand real collaboration between teachers• Always (mutual) foreign languages involved: different

literacies• Always (inter-) cultural aspects connected: bridging

cultures• Learning + Better understanding• KISS + The Sky is the limit

The conference: a rich environment• For people to meet, to talk, to drink, to eat, to

sing, to dance….• And to discuss about the ways in which we can

make our schools better places to be in for our children and for ourselves as teachers, with open (digital) doors and open (digital) windows, better places to learn for the future, together with other teachers and other pupils in ICT-rich educational environments

• And build bridges between people and cultures in all their diversity

• And appreciate the collective culture we are in now!!!

Let’s enjoy the conference

• Let’s hope that this conference is a shared learning place for us all:

• That we learn from the best practices of each other,

• That we learn of the different cultures and countries we learn, work and live in,

• That we learn how similar we are in fact, despite all differences.

• And that we meet old friends and make new friends.

Enjoy yourselves!Thank you