1. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 11 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 The ELFE project Hans Laugesen ELFE project coordinator Educational Policy officer and International Secretary in GL, Denmark

2. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 22 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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

3. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 33 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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

4. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 44 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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?

5. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 55 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 ELFE structure

6. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 66 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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

7. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 77 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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 go and get a visit)  Two conferences:  actors with experience meet (22.-23.11.04)  teachers’ unions debate ICT-policy proposals (5.-6.9.05)  Create a Web-based debate at European level

8. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 88 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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

9. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen 99 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 School to school visits  Each of the 15 ELFE-schools go once and get a visit once  Each school can send 2 persons  Visits will take place during spring 2005  Planned as 4 days/3 nights visits  Deadline for return of visit priority sheet: 6 th of December 2004  Remember 15 schools to choose from – not 5

10. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen  10 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 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

11. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen  11 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 www.ELFE-eu.net

12. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen  12 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 Debate-furum at ELFE web-site

13. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen  13 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 Education-policy questions Do we have recommendations in the end?:  Is there an ideal balance between virtual lessons and normal lessons?  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?  Suggestions for relevant indicators regarding the use of ICT in education?  etc.

14. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen  14 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 Preliminary observations 1 After the Steering Group’s visits to 12 schools:  Make ICT-use part of school policy and create a Whole School Development environment  Evident effect of Pedagogical ICT driver licence  Create conditions for teachers use of ICT and  Have a vision, debate minimum performance, and leave room for frontrunners  Distance education in remote areas or in small schools means more educ. options and can be combined with a social learning environment

15. 22.11.2004 H Laugesen  15 1 st ELFE Conference, Brussels 22.-23.11.04 Preliminary observations 2  So far we have not seen any hard-core proofs that the use of ICT is increasing the quality of education  There is a feeling among teachers that the use of ICT contributes to strengthen the students ability to work in an independent way  A risk that the need to train oral skills is forgotten – written dimension increases workload  A risk of less opportunity to have direct face to face discussions in the classrooms  You do not need to loose the low performing students – but be aware not to do so