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EMINENT – Vilnius 26-27 November 2009Session: European approaches to Maths, Science and Technology Education

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Motivating young people to study MST:the role of digital learning resources

Maïté Debry26/11/2009

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EMINENT – Vilnius 26-27 November 2009

Inspire – Motivating young people to study MST: the role of digital LR – Maïté Debry

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Inspire

Comenius project funded by DG Education and Culture as part of the Lifelong Learning Programme

Project period: December 2007 – November 2009




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Inspire (Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education).

Purpose: challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies

During 10 months Inspire gathered data to:

• Observe the impact of these new teaching methods on pupils and on their motivation.

• Analyse the pre-requisites to be defined for enabling teachers to integrate these new techniques in their pedagogy.

• Identify the critical success factors to be mastered at teacher and school level for the generalization of such practices.

Inspire




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Inspire

LR = digital learning resources




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+ LR =




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+ LR =?




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Inspire methodology

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http://inspire.eun.org

ca.inspire.eun.org es.inspire.eun.org

de.inspire.eun.org

it.inspire.eun.org

lt.inspire.eun.org

questionnaire

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list of L

Oshow to

use

the LOs

• 63 schools• 5 countries• 5 languages




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Before After

LR 1 LR 2 LO N...

Inspire questionnaires




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Learning Resources (LR)




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Languages of the LR

en c a de es it lt

P h ys ics 12 3 2 5 2 0

C hem is try 12 0 1 1 1 0

B io lo g y 12 0 1 1 1 0

M ath em atics 12 2 3 4 3 0

IT 12 0 0 0 0 0

Total 60 5 7 11 7 0




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Minimum number of words




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Pilot schools

Schools

Types

Teachers

Pupils




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Selection of LR

The LR were used 904 times




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Selection criteria for the LR




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Positive impacts• highest impact: autonomous learning of pupils.• ¾ LR stimulated own interest and motivation for teaching MST.• 70% said the LR increased the pupils’ understanding and use of ICT in general.• 2/3 noticed that the LR stimulated pupils’ interest and motivation for learning MST. • facilitated differentiated teaching of sciences in the classroom

Results from teachers




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Difficulties

• AT, DE, ES and IT: [en] → [local lang]

• ES + IT: problems with PC / Internet...

Results from teachers




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Results from students




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• Greater impact on boys than on girls;

• Impact decreases with the age, specially among female

students (ICT survey);

• For virtually all items surveyed impact perceived by LT and

ES (and IT) >> AT and DE;

• No real impact as far as the number of LR used.

Results from students




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Overall, it appears the use of LR has a positive impact on MST education but special attention has to be placed on technical requirements and localization of the LR.

Conclusions




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