Transcript ERNIST E eTALENT Valorisation Conference Sofia, 2-3 April 2007

ERNIST
European Research Network for ICT in Schools of Tomorrow
eTALENT Valorisation Conference
Sofia, 2-3 April 2007
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Paul Gerhard
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What is EUN
Network of 28 Ministries
of Education in Europe
Dedicated to
Support schools in
bringing about the best use
of technology in learning
Promote the European
dimension in schools
and education
Improve and raise
the quality of education
in Europe
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Our stakeholders/Audience
Stakeholders
Audience
Ministries
of Education
Teachers, Pupils
IT Industry
and Suppliers
School Leaders
European
Commission
Policy makers
Schools
Researchers
Developers
Experts
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Three strands of activities
Knowledge building and
Exchange on ICT policies
and practice
EUN
Activities
School networking
and services
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Interoperability and
content exchange
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Knowledge building and
Exchange on ICT policies
and practice
ERNIST
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ERNIST: About
• October 2002 - June 2004
• EU eLearning Programme
• 8 Partners:
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European Schoolnet as coordinator
Dutch Inspectorate (Netherlands)
University of Nottingham (UK)
Pedagogical Academy (Univ. Linz) (Oberösterreich, Austria)
Open University (UK)
University of Turku, University of Helsinki (Finland)
CTIE – Swiss Agency for ICT in education (Switzerland) – non funded
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Key questions
• What is the institutional response to change
– Short term decision in a changing environment
• What is the evidence base for policy makers
– Research evidence is there, needs channelling to
decision makers as a tool for decision-making
• How can practitioners use the research?
• What is happening in leading edge schools?
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Key aims
• Understanding decision-making process in
a multi-cultural Europe and a fast changing
environment
• Bring closer practice and research (ex:
Answer to authentic questions)
• Establish a network between policy and
decision makers, researchers and
practitioners (Networking strand)
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Strands of Work
• The three strands of work: a roadmap for
decision makers, teachers and researchers on
the best use of ICT in schools
• School portraits
• Research evidence for ICT policy making
• Success factors in network building
• Dissemination
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Methodology
Awards
• Open-ended, non-judgmental approach,
ERNISTout
School
portraits
won the
bringing
innovative
practices,
inspiring
European eLearning Awards
others
(eureleA) in February 2005 in the
category: Journalism
-Descriptive
elements and Reporting
– Schools
in: Austria,
Belgium (Flanders), UK
-Introduction
(country,
school)
-Changes
for students,
teachers
(England,
NI,
Scotland),
the
Netherlands.
-Organisational change
School Portraits
• 20 school portraits:
• Portraits made by 6 inspectorates following
methodology developed by Dutch insp.
• Spread inspiring practice to policy makers,
teachers, researchers
-Appreciative elements
-Appreciation (summary inspectorate of
what is good in the school)
-Lessons for others
http://schoolportraits.eun.org
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Research papers
Authentic question concept
Research evidence for policy making
-Step one: Collect questions from teachers
-Think Again: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight
(what do you want to know about ICT in
on ICT in Schools
schools)
-Analysis of ICT policy in European
-Step two: Researchers reformulated the
countries (DK, FR, NL, PT,questions
SW, UK)so that they can be used in a
-Scenarios for school education
research context
-Resulting from structured interviews
withProvide research based evidence
-Step three:
–
Think
Again
(David
Wood,
Univ. Nottingham)
policy makers
to ‘answer’
• More than 7 research papers
– Organisational-Access
Study:
institutional
to The
information:
long, shortresponse
answer,
-Organisational study: “School:
a
teachers
can choose what is important
change
(Alan McCluskey,
CTIE, Switzerland)
Sustainable to
Learning
Organisation”
-Schools: ‘an organisation for
learning for
Examples:
all’ (collective learning experience)
- How does the teacher’s work change?
-Resulting from interviews with
policyof ICT)
(because
makers, researcher, teacher, industry,
developers)
- How do students perceive ICT and its use
-Improve strategies for integration
of ICT
in schools?
• 12 answers to authentic question
- How does one use ICT to motivate students
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Collection of success factors
Network
building
- A common
and shared strand
purpose
-Easy access
to information
and resources
• Identify and analyse
success
factors
in
-Needs
and skills of stakeholders
of the
network building
(Friedrich
Buchberger
network
University of Linz)
-Establish channel of communication
– Analysis of seven networks and their networking
-Focus on distributed
forms of leadership
strategies (European
School project,
Becta ICT
research network….)
-A range of activities that promote and
maintain active participation
• Success factors for networking were
-More on: http://insight.eun.org ….
identified
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Dissemination and outputs
• ERNIST outputs are available on the EUN
observatory for New technology and Education:
http://insight.eun.org (School Innovation)
• School portraits available at:
- http://schoolportraits.eun.org (Also available in print)
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Insight Portal
EUN Observatory for New Technologies and Education
Policy
Interoperability
Country reports
Insight reports
Policy briefs
LIFE project
LRE developments
Technology news
School Innovation
School galleries
School Portraits
ePortfolios
Thematic Dossiers: (Transversal section: Leadership, Innovation, e-assessment)
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ERNIST and now what…?
• From ERNIST to P2P
– ERNIST aimed to bridge/link researchers, policy
makers and practitioners
– In 2004-2006, building on the network building
ideas of ERNIST, P2P the first Peer learning
project started (eLearning Programme)
• From P2P to P2V
– In 2007-2009 P2V aims to ‘valorise’ P2P
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P2V: Peer to Peer Networking for Valorisation
Peer learning methodologies
• 2-year project
Policy peer visits: peers from MoE
Peer learning tools
• Aims
to foster
learning between:
in partner
countries
sharepeer
and learn
from each
other over 3-day visits
– Schools
Peer learning portal: this portal to be
– Policy-makers
launched in June will be the
School peer visits*: Principals and
‘reference point for peer learning in
– learn
Inspectors
teachers
how ICT is used in
Europe’
schools in other countries
• Continuation of successful projects: ERNIST (Schools
portraits, use of ICT in schools)
and P2P
Peer As
Methodologies
and(first
frameworks:
Inspection peer visits*: Inspectors
learning project)
of education share how they evaluate part of the project: peer learning
methodologies for schools, policy• Three
topics:
schools
and teachers.
– Digital resources
makers and inspectors will be created
Portals:
– Digital
literacy
Europe, peer learning is not
widespread: need to train people…
*In P2V: use of a ‘common framework for
– ofVirtual
learning environments
Conferences/Workshops: In
evaluation
ICT in schools’
http://p2v.eun.org
• Aim
to valorise (exploit and disseminate) P2P
(in development)
methodologies
http://p2p.eun.org
(previous peer
learning project)
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Thank you!
• Contacts:
Roger Blamire, Senior Manager Policy and Practice, [email protected]
Anja Balanskat, Senior Policy Analyst: [email protected]
Paul Gerhard, Information and Communication Officer: [email protected]
• Useful sites:
www.eun.org – www.europeanschoolnet.org – www.dyp2006.org – myeurope.eun.org –
www.springday2007.net – roundtable.eun.org – insight.eun.org – insafe.eun.org –
www.etwinning.net – www.saferinternet.org – lre.eun.org – calibrate.eun.org –
fire.eun.org – community.eun.org – www.xplora.org – life.eun.org –
elearningawards.eun.org
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