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The ELFE project

Hans LaugesenELFE project coordinator

Educational Policy officer andInternational Secretary in GL, Denmark


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Why ELFE?

A lot of money is spend on ICT in Schools High expectations of what ICT can

achieve Do the students learn more? Technical problems or lack of ICT-training

of teachers is often used as an excuse Do we know how to use ICT pedagogically

to optimise the learning process? Need for exchange of good practices Too often, only the frontrunners are

involved in the exchange of experiences


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Purpose of ELFE

A European project created to achieve a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of using ICT in primary and secondary education

The ELFE project aims at investigating good practice in the use of ICT, which supports the teaching and learning process encourages students to develop new skills and

competences promotes an inclusive education for all students


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Pedagogical questions

Promoting relevance, meaningfulness and engagement in both teaching and learning

Use of ICT to train new competences Virtual lessons as a mean of variation in

normal class lessons: blended face to face ed.

Use of ICT as a catalyst for a Whole School Development

Providing more educational options for students in remote areas

Are there pedagogical and social costs? how do we avoid loosing the low performing

students?


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ELFE structure

M ain activitiesG o a nd s tud y v is its (15 scho o ls)

E L F E w e b s ite2 con fe re nces

PartnersE T U C E

5 T e a che rs ' U n ion s (D ,D K ,E ,N ,P )P e da g og ica l E xp e rts

Chief Rapporteura c rit ica l frie nd

Political ApproachP e da g og ica l q ue stio ns a nd ob serva tio ns

P o lic y d e b a te in T e a che rs ' U n io nsP o lic y su g ge s tion s to th e C o m m iss ion

ELFEE xch a ng e o f e xpe rien ce

S tu dy tran s fe r to o th er scho o lsc re a te E u ro p ea n d e ba te o n p ed a go g ica l u se o f IC T


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ELFE partners

ETUCE and 5 ETUCE-organisations: GEW, Germany FNE, Portugal NUT, UK GL, Denmark Utdanningsforbundet, Norway

Researchers: Ulf Fedriksson, Mid Sweden University Gunilla Jedeskog, Linköping Univ., Sweden Elsebeth K. Sorensen, Aalborg University,

Denmark Tjeerd Plomp, Twente Univ., The Netherlands


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Target groups and approach

Target groups: teachers teachers’ unions researchers

School visits: steering group visit to 3 schools in each 5 countries school to school visits (15 schools visited each

other)

Two conferences: actors with experience meet (22.-23.11.04) teachers’ unions debate ICT-policy proposals (21.-

22.11.05)

Create a Web-based debate at European level


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Visited Schools

English ELFE-schools Prince Albert Infants & Junior School (Birmingham) Hampstead School (Cricklewood, London) Greensward College (Hockley, Essex)

Danish ELFE-schools Langkaer Gymnasium (Århus, Århus County) Middelfart Gymnasium (Middelfart, Funen County) Kalbyrisskolen (a primary and lower secondary school in

Næstved) German ELFE-schools

Hans-Böckler Berufskolleg (Marl) Pestalozzi Grundschule (Marl) Max-Plank Gymnasium (Duisburg)

Norwegian ELFE-schools Hitra videregående skole (Sør-Trøndelag County) Saltdal videregående skole (Saltdal Municipality) Steigen sentralskole (Steigen Municipality)

Portuguese ELFE-schools EBI Vasco da Gama (Lisbon) Escola Secundária Santa Maria Maior (Viana do Castelo) EB 23 Carapinheira


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School to school visits

Each of the 15 ELFE-schools went once and got a visit once

Each school could send 2 persons Visits took place March-Oct. 2005 Planned as 4 days/3 nights visits Reports from the school to school

visits


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ELFE web-site

Information on ELFE Progress of the ELFE-project Small reports from school visits and

meetings in Steering Committee Debate forum on

Pedagogical use of ICT in education Contact between schools involved in ELFE Policy debate among teachers unions on ICT in

ed.

Useful links Will be kept alive after the project period…


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www.ELFE-eu.net


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Debate-furum at ELFE web-site


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ICT-policy questions

Do we have recommendations in the end: A draft ETUCE-policy paper will be presented

Including recommendations to EU and school-owners

Topics for debate: Teachers’ use of ICT: Balance between frontrunners

and a minimum level Which kind of pre-service education and

in-service training is necessary? Physical requirements at schools? etc.

The ETUCE board will take decision on the policy paper with your amendments in Dec. -05


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Select a chair person and a rapporteur Room E (ground floor), max 14 prs.: English

Questions 1a, 1b, and 2

Room F (ground floor), max 14 prs.: English Questions 3a and 3b

Room M1 (first floor). max 12 prs.: English Question 4

Room M6 (first floor). max 11 prs.: French Questions 5a and 5b

Auditorium, max 15 prs.: French + English Questions 6 and 7


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Questions to working groups on the draft ETUCE policy paper on ICT in Educ. Part 1

Instead of debating the individual arguments, we would like you to debate:

SECTIONS 1 AND 2: 1 - Are we missing any important arguments

for using ICT in education? 2 - Are we missing any important risks or

opportunities that should be added to the list?

SECTIONS 3 AND 4 3 - Are there any important factors that

should be added to the list? 4 - Which factors do you find of primary

importance to have a successful use of ICT in Education?


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Questions to working groups on the draft ETUCE policy paper on ICT in Educ. Part 2

SECTIONS 5 AND 6 In section 5.2 we list 11 recommendations from

teachers unions to school management and to national and/or regional governments. Six major messages are also summarised in section 6.

5 - Can you agree with these recommendations? Do you suggest that we add any additional recommendations to the list?

Finally, four concrete recommendations to the EU can be read in the last bullet points in section 6

6 - Can you agree with these recommendations? Do you suggest that we add any additional ones?

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