About 10 years ago informatics teacher training did not seem to be too productive. Even though many students graduated, most of them chose well paid jobs as IT specialists rather than underpaid ...teacher positions in Hungary. What is then the reason for striving to provide the most up-to-date technology and methodology for future teachers who will never be able to transfer their gained knowledge into public education? The only possible solution seemed to be to convert to e-learning. The significance of TeaM e-learning activities at ELTE University is mainly that they are interconnected and add up from course project works, undergraduate diploma works, Ph.D. dissertations of students, as well as all local and international projects that TeaM Lab participates in. Thus a dynamic development is under continuous progress which is a win-win relationship between all participants, teacher training and projects.
This chapter examines the Project Work initiative in Singapore and the challenges to its success. The most pertinent challenge is the deeply ingrained mindsets of the various stakeholders, including ...students, teachers, school leaders and parents, regarding the goals of education. These mindsets pose a challenge not only to the Project Work initiative but also to the wider education reform in Singapore under the umbrella vision of 'Thinking Schools, Learning Nation'. Author abstract
Beyond anecdote towards real transfer Fincher, Sally; Petre, Marian
Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education: Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on the teaching of computing and the 3rd annual conference on Integrating technology into computer science education: Changing the delivery of computer science education : Dublin City Univ., Ireland; 18-21 Aug. 1998,
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The EPCoS project (Effective Project work in Computer Science) is working to map the range of project work practices and to generate insights into what characterises the contexts in which particular ...techniques are effective. In assembling a body of authentic examples, EPCoS aims to provide a resource that enables extrapolation and synthesis of new techniques. Structured resources and process models are essential tools for supporting responsiveness in the current climate of continual change: the rapid development of computer technology is demanding new range and flexibility in project work, and EPCoS's mapping of project-based teaching allows practitioners to respond to these changes. Moreover, EPCoS is examining the process by which practices are transferred between institutional contexts, with a view to identifying effective models of that process. In this paper, we describe EPCoS's work-in-progress and describe briefly how technology makes the catalogue easier to use, providing tailored access, fast selection and juxtaposition, and the potential for an extensible, updated, distributed resource.
Project Work, based on the success group approach, offered counseling to six gifted underachievers in middle school. The program, lasting 10 weeks, included group discussions, contracts, and daily ...evaluations. (SW)
Using a real-life setting to combine social and technical skills Daniels, M.; Jansson, A.; Kavathatzopoulos, I. ...
30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135),
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Our students are highly competent in the technical area, but have little training in the non-technical area. This paper describes a course that is designed to increase the students' ability to apply ...their technical skills in a professional way. Projects with real, low in IT skills, users are used to make the issue of being professional concrete. The aspect of communication, both between colleagues and between users of a product, is chosen as a theme. Relevant theory is introduced as close to the point in time when needed in the real project. This paper give the general setting of the course and observations from students and teachers about how well the goals are achieved.
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