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• Malle Mattisen
• Väike-Maarja Study Centre
• Teacher of ITC

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• Education is a state-controlled manufactory of
  echoes.
• Norman Douglas
• British novelist (18681952)
• From our own schooldays we remember that learning
  means
• to be quiet,
• to watch and listen,
• to test what we have remembered.

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• Has modern technology changed the way we teach
  and learn?
• ITC have been so far (mainly)
• Medium of fast and comprehensive distribution of
  information
• Ding an sich ie teachers use technology to teach
  technology.
• The challenge is to use the possibilities of ITC
  as a learning tool, a thought amplifier

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• The GLOBE program is one of the possibilities to
  use ICT as a mind tool.
• The GLOBE database is a great source for for
  compiling teaching materials.
• The lesson plan One Potato, Two Potato
  illustrates some of the possibilities.

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• Data handling One Potato
• The aim of the lesson is to find suitable places
  for cultivating potatoes.
• Three sets of rain and temperatures retrieved
  from the GLOBE database.
• Students dont know where the GLOBE sites are
  situated.

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• Steps of the data processing
• Convert the text data into MS Excel format.
• Insert the function
• Create a PivotTable
• Data in Excel
• Create a custom type chart Line-Column on 2 Axis

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Lokossa Benin
Muhu Estonia
Iicin Czech Republic
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• Interpreting results and drawing meaningful
  conclusions based on
• Tabels
• Charts
• Prior knowledge about climatic zones
• Checking the locations of the school
• Presenting and explaining the results to the
  class.

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• Last but not least
• All the technical remedises of the world do not
  help if the teaching skills applying them are
  unsatisfactory.

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