28.11.2007 Laptop use in school - the next step? Dissertation Thomas Seidel - [email protected] Folie...

28.11.2007 Laptop use in school - the next step? Dissertation Thomas Seidel - [email protected]

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Laptop use in school - the next step?

Freie Universität Berlin

Center for Media Research (Medienpsychologie und -pädagogik)

Thomas Seidel

Prof. Dr. L. J. Issing


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“One-to-one” vs. Laptop Car

one-to-one-concept

laptop-car Both use W-Lan

Which conditions, what framework can support this nessesary change process.


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Routine instead of „innovations effect“

• Evangelisch Stiftische Gymnasium Gütersloh (ESG) - 9 years of laptop use

• Lycée Aline Mayrisch Luxembourg (LAML) 1500 computers – 6 years of laptop use

2006/2007• Online survey

classes 8-10 (teacher, students, parents)

• Interviews• Visiting 60 lessons

(recorded on video)

• Workshop participants of all groups (teacher, students, parents, head of the school)

Former studies of these schools (2001/2003) can be compared with


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Laptop use in school – the next step?

• Which methods have persisted?

• How time consuming is lesson preparation once a routine is established? - How great is the reuseability of lesson preparaion?

• Is laptop use in school helpful for the requirements in the future?


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Different forms of organisation the work in the classroom

Whole class working on a digital work sheet

Presentation

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whole class project work ingroups

working inteams of two

working alone


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Software/Methods are used in the lessons

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Digital work sheets

digital work sheet:

Marking the parts of the sentences

digital work sheet: read the text and fill in your results

Use a math programm to visualizehyperbola funktions


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More variable length of time and increased frequency of use

Checking Homework

Searching in the

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Taking the laptop home

Using the Laptop like a computer lab

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ESG(9 years)

LAML(6 years)„Laptop-lesson“ No implementation as a tool.


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Advantages of using laptops

• Enhances the educational change process [1]

• More variable length of time and increased frequency of use

• Gives rise to methodological diversity. Better level differentiation is possible.

• W-LAN enables any-time, anywhere computing leading to more flexible organisation of schoolwork in classes or school building (different rooms, leads to more self-organized working/learning)

• Key competence: computer and internet literacy will be learned easily [2]

• Increased pupil motivation


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Believe that Laptop use in school will be helpful for the requirements in the future...

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Does laptop use really prepare the pupils for the future?


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Change raises problems

• frustration with technical problems,

• insufficient media competencies among the teachers,

• teachers are required to make an additional effort to plan the lessons at the introductory period (“no time left” for preparing your lessons),

• demotivated

– due to the lack of interest among colleagues and of the school director,

– because of a lack of continuity in the school,

– resistance of colleagues who refuse computer or laptop use.

But how can this necessary change be effectuated?

If you deliver a bunch of hardware to the schools, a lot of new problems will emerge.


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What are good leadership instruments to promote this change process?

• laptop-steering-group– Supports the teachers at planning the lessons especially

at the introductory period– The Head of the school should have a strong influence

on the subject groups– Teacher training in schools (organized by the laptop-

steering-group)• Support-service in the school building (to minimize the

downtimes if ones laptop is broken)

• Laptop-curriculum according to the school profile

• School leader are interested and have a look at the presentation of the results of the classroom work

• Continuity of using laptops (systemising contents, rules, processes)


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Questions to discuss

Computers have been used since 20 years in schools, but still are not implemented well.

• Do you think it is a good idea that children get their own school laptop?

• Do you think we will have a change to laptop-hardware? Or will that change fail due to lack of money or will the teachers be resistant to the idea?

• Do you think the change in the hardware concept will come along with a change in the educational concept? Will ideas like constructivism achieve more popularity?


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Thank you !!

Thomas Seidel

[email protected]


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What has changed after all the years

• The rules for laptop use are revised. Better fitting to the workflow.

• systemising contents, processes (teaching and technical support)

• More teachers are teaching laptop classes

• Cooperation of the teachers is still very good

• Laptopcurriculum concerted to the school profile

• Allow to write tests on their laptop (D, M, E)

• At the 10th grade they have no paper file anymore everything is written in the laptop

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