ESE school: Landsjöskolan
Landsjöskolan is located some 15 km north of
Jönköping and takes children aged between 6 and 12. The school has participated in a
number of successful IT projects since the mid-eighties (for example the nationally
acclaimed project Computers and Pre-school Children
(1993-95)), and is recognised as having a good position in the
application of Information Technology as a pedagogical tool.
Landsjöskolan is one of three Swedish schools currently involved in the CAB project
(Construction kits made of Atoms and Bits). The project, which involves children in the
4 - 8 age range, is aimed at developing, evaluating and researching new teaching methods
through the childrens’ interaction with programmable LEGO kits.
25 children at Landsjöskolan are currently using and testing the
LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics
Invention System, and their efforts are
being documented and evaluated by their teachers and researchers at HLK (The School of
Education and Communication, Jönköping University). Teachers and children at
Landsjöskolan have frequent contacts with the other participating schools, using
CU-SeeMe video conferences in which the
children can show their constructions to each other. Later in the project, the children
will be able to communicate and compare the results of their programming via email, and
thus learn from each other.
Another current project at Landsjöskolan, Me and My Mate,
aims to provide the children with a sufficient number of computers for
most school situations. As a result of this each participating class in the CAB project
has access to about 20 laptop computers.
For more information please contact the CAB’s project leader,
Grazia Filippi
(grazia.scuola@comune.re.it)
CAB web site:
cab.itd.ge.cnr.it/ |
