ICT at schools in the City of Linköping

The education system Pre-school Pre-school class Compulsory school Upper secondary school Universities and university colleges (undergraduate and graduate studies) Age Adult education Years of study

Who bears responsibility for schools? Government determine the curricula, national goals and guidelines Municipalities decides how the work within the schools should be organised and implemented Schools decide on their own organisation and how to achieve the goals

Education in Linköping teachers pupils in compulsory school students in upper secondary school students at Linköping University

ICT projects in Linköping Started about ten years ago 1992 ICT for girls and their parents 1995 the first Internet coffee shop in Sweden at Berzeliusskolan The ”BIT-project” (Building bridges with IT) The national action plan for ICT in school (ITiS) with a lot of local facilities ICT is a tool for learning on a regular basis!?

The BIT-project The City of Linköping in cooperation with the KK-foundation A project budget of totally Euro Hundreds of subprojects divided into three main tracks New pedagogy To increase interest in science and technology Schools-Library-Museum in ICT cooperation

ICT in schools (ITiS) Supported by the government 1100 teachers in 160 teams participated Most parts of the BIT-project continued in order to support ITiS with extra facilities (With funding from the municipality) Information literacy teachers Web based support for historical research A newspaper project for students and teacher teams

Use ICT for information retrieval and communication Realize what kind of information you need Define the problem area and formulate questions Choose among different sources and search effectively Examine and process the information and transform to knowledge Use the information, interpret, analyze, draw conclusions and solve the problem Information literacy

“The history gateway” Web based support for historical research A large quantity of Web based material Produced in cooperation with schools, the County Museum and the University of Linköping

Reporter- a newspaper project A Public Private Partnership (PPP) including schools, the local newspaper and the software company Textalk The main purpose is to stimulate the use of a more investigative method of working at our schools

ICT facilities All schools are linked together in a common network with connection to the Internet Common servers for storage of software and data All pupils and teachers have their own account accessible from any Internet browser

Internet connection Almost every computer is connected to the Internet No restricted access (no filters) All schools have their own websites Teachers can publish own and student material on the Web directly from their own computers

The network is divided in two parts adm.linkoping.se computers and servers for employees users, computers edu.linkoping.se computers and servers for students users, computers

Type of connection 25 km Fiber 100 Mbps 2Mbps Compulsory schools39 17 Upper secondary schools 6

Network resources Individual folders for server storage of documents Common folders for each school for server storage of documents and software with individual accounts for all pupils and employees MS Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Network in school buildings Each room in all schools is equipped with one data outlet connected to adm or edu network If more than one computer is to be connected in the same room, the school has to set up a small network

Automation and support All computer- and -accounts for pupils are automatically generated from a common data system where all pupils are registered All schools have their own ICT-coordinator who can manage forgotten passwords etc

Success factors Do not forget the principal Choose robust technology Listen to the teachers Take your time it often takes more than 5 years to introduce new pedagogical tools Encourage partnerships Think “after the project”

Questions? Linköpings kommun Pedagogiskt centrum Att. Sören Thornell SE LINKÖPING Sweden