Esp2011opening

Innovating EducationthroughInternational ICT-CollaborationSuccessful practice from the history of ESPto meet future educational challenges
The 25th Anniversary Conference of the
European Schools Project Association
Helsingør– Denmark

Henk Sligte – NederlandUniversity of AmsterdamKohnstammInstituteforEducational Research Board of the ESP Association
Henk.Sligte@UvA.NL
The Skinny Bridge Amsterdam 1840 AD

Welcome
Wilkommen
Welkom
Benvenuti
PLUS
MANY
MORE
LANGUAGES
to
Helsingør

WHO IS WHO
BELGIUM
SWEDEN
GERMANY
DENMARK
ESTONIA
FINLAND
GEORGIA
ITALY
NETHERLANDS
POLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
ROMANIA
NORWAY

GreetingsfromRomania
Dear 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

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Schools as Vital Learning Centres
having meaningful and sustainable
international 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
Rememberyourfirst time?
Whatyoudidthen?
Whatyou do now?
Whatyou want to do?
Whatchances?
Whatobstacles?
Whatwouldyour ‘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?

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FACTORS THAT SHOULD BE IN BALANCE WITH EACH OTHER

Successful practice from the history of ESPto meet future educational challenges

ESP-Conferences
1. London
2. Amsterdam
3. Groburgwedel
4. Humlebaek
5. Lenham
6. Toledo
7. Schwerte
8. Amsterdam
9. Cambridge
10. Leuven
11. Portoroz
12. Copenhagen
13. Tartu
14. Haugesund
15. Rendsburg
16. Malmö
17. Roma
18. Prague
19. Järvenpää
20. Amsterdam
21. Piešt’any
22. A Coruña
23. Tartu
24. London
25. Helsingør
Working conferences for and by Educators
Creating Innovative Collaborative projects with ICT
Improving & extending community of learners

Amsterdam - Telegraph Creek
1987
Two schools
Geography
English Language
6 teachers
80 pupils
One of the first experiments in the world
Pre-Internet
TELETRIP
Conversation Theory

Fidonet, EARN, JANET, BITNET

From Peter Hyde at Tahltan School in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, Canada
6 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!

1988
The first European Triangle
Ecology
Poetry
Amsterdam
Großburgwedel
Lenham

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 messages
thinkwritereadagainsend|||||
readreactposequestionssend
Netiquette: Golden Rules

Started in Groburgwedel 1989
by Lone Hagen & Thomas Peters
CONTENT

1990 Denmark

30 TEACHERS FROM UK
50 TEACHERS FROM SIX OTHER COUNTRIES
55 PROJECTS PLANNED; 32 DONE
19 IN GERMAN; 9 IN ENGLISH

TeleprojectsInternational (CSC)Learning
Making meaningful connections between:
Pupils,Teachers, Schools, Cultures
Put clear subjects central
Make sure pupils can have interesting conversations on the subjects
Using languages:
Mutual foreign language
Using 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

COMENIUS3
2001 - 2004

eJournalism

eJournal
Cecilia Estoque: Microsoft Award Most Innovative Teacher of the Year

The ESP Association Founded in 2005to 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.

ESP
Association
2005
COMP@CT
ECOLE
European Schools Project
2001
1997
2011
2004
1987
ESP as Umbrella Organisation
For many many collaborative projects
For many many initiatives
Connecting networks
Connecting countries, schools, teachers, pupils
Learning 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!!!

ESP is a network organisation in which international computer supported collaborative learning(CSCL) and teaching is the heart

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Schools need to cater for more than the transmission of knowledge, in order to enable young people’s participation in the diverse world in which they live.
Methodology in Schools needs to be more versatile.
Every student’s diverse talents need recognition and development.
Creative collaborative learning supported by ICT.
Increase motivation by Collaborative International projects for students and teachers.
Similarities and differences between countries, languages and cultures enable positive life long learning.
You learn the most of diversity

Bridging Intercultural Diversity through Global (CSC)Learning
1) Schools need sustainable (continuous) innovation to keep in pace with the evolving society (ICT)
2) Schools need to remain/become high quality places young people like to be in for learning: evidence-based practice
3) Schools need to educate young people for responsible participants in society
Different literacies for participation in society
Ecological consciousness about school, nature, culture and society

Evolution of the Media accelerates
Technology as extension of our senses, our bodies, our minds..........
We always needed media for our human processes of learning and communication:
From Growling, to Gesture, to Talking, to Handwriting, to Printing, to Snailmailing, to Telegraphing, to Phoning, to Faxing, to Emailing, to Surfing, to Chatting, Hyving, Breezing, Skyping, Twittering....
Being someone, somewhere in virtual space………
Using more and more advanced media and tools in a changing society...
For education: non-technocentric but anthropocentric approach -> what helps and improves learning?

What works in schools?
School-Level Factors:
• A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
• Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback
• Parent and CommunityInvolvement
• Safe and Orderly Environment
• Collegiality and Professionalism
Teacher-Level Factors:
• Instructionalstrategies
• Classroom management
• Classroom curriculum design
Student-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:
Deepen the experience base: excursions, collaboration with organisations outside of school, support in creating life experiences
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 CommunityInvolvement
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 OurSchools of the SickOrganisationSyndrome
Insulitis: the islanddisease (time, content, closedclassrooms)
Technophobia: the fearfortechnology
ESP = Building Bridgeswith ICT
Bridges for Learning
Bridging Best Practices
Bridging Visions for Learning
Bridging 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 smmrholswr 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

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Educational challenges now & later for us as educators
Sustainable ICT-innovation of learning, teaching and schools
Learning from & with the Other: collaborative construction knowledge & understanding
Developing rich powerful challenging real & virtual learning environments
Educating the Net Generation, the Homo Zappiens, for a Rapidly changing World
Lifelong (and lifewide) competence development in general, for teachers in specific

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

Esp2011opening

by Henk Sligte on Mar 10, 2011

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