This week’s task was to inform ourselves about the use of computers in our old grammar school.
One could think that, since I just graduated 3 years ago, not much has changed since then. But going back to my “old” school, teaching as an U+-Kraft, I realized that many things were done in order to improve media skills of teachers and students, and the improvement is still in progress.
First of all, I would like to introduce an excerpt of the Schulprogramm, which was introduced in 2006:
Die Nutzung moderner Informationstechnologien wird auf vielfältige Art unterstützt. Für alle Schüler findet eine Einführung in die Nutzung der Computer des Schulnetzes sowie den Gebrauch von Standardsoftware statt. Dadurch wird der didaktisch und methodisch gezielte Einsatz dieser Technologie in allen Fächern sowie beim Selbststudium unterstützt. Ein Internetforum dient allen Schülerinnen, Schülern und Lehrern als gemeinsame Kommunikationsplattdorm in uns außerhalb der Schule.
Als Entwicklungsziel in diesem Bereich ist die räumliche Vergrößerung und inhaltliche Ergänzung der Mediothek beschlossen. Des Weiteren streben wir an, den Schülerinnen und Schülern eine Schulung zum Erwerb der ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence, Europäischer Computerführerschein) anzubieten.
Auszug aus dem Schulprogramm der Winfriedschule Fulda
The school has 2 fully equipped computer labs, which are used in many classes (e.g. Maths, Geography, Biology). Moreover the school provides a “Mediothek”, where students have all day internet-access and can use the numerous PCs whenever they want to.
My own experiences
- Learning Software for Geography (grades 5 and 6), Maths (grades 11 and 12) and Biology (grades 12 and 13)
- Computer classes in grade 9 (twice a week) and 10 (three times a week for 1 semester)
- learning the skills using Word and Excel
- How to do Internet Research (English, grades 12 and 13)
- frequent use of the “Mediothek” for research purposes
What I missed
- How to use PowerPoint
- Internet as a means for communication
- more frequent use of the Internet as information platform
Conclusion
Overall I can say that I am quite confident with the use of New Media at my old grammar school. Although it could have been “more”, I believe that the teachers did everything they were capable of in order to prepare us for our future life with New Media.
I am sure that New Media will play a bigger role in the future since a new “Mediothek” has been built 1.5 years ago, including more PCs and school-wide internet access.
The possibility to do a presentation in the Abitur also enforces the need for a more intense work on the students’ Computer skills.
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Hi Marina!
It’s funny how things differ with respect to new media im fu from school to school. As far as I can remember we didn’t use the new media at all back at my old school. It’s always fun to read your blog entries!
C U around
hey you,
you are the second person whose entry I read and I’ve got the feeling that you all shortened your entries to basic essence of it. the other girl did that, too. unfortunately, you left out to elaborate on your own experiences I guess. I mean right, you mentioned the things you did in class once, however, you could have gone more into detail about those that – for instance, did you like those projects? nevertheless, the rest is fine – you covered all necessary aspects!
probably, would be good to include a bit more of your opinion next time (and meanwhile, I fell that’s what they wanna read, as well
regards
thomas
Hi Marina,
I agree to Erwin. Although my former school also tried to include the New Media in the classroom, the article I read before was totally different from yours. The efforts your school shows sound interesting and innovative.
I really lilke your style of writing and the overall layout of your blog. It’s the first time that I’ve visited it, but I’m sure it won’t be the last