COMPUTER LITERACY Racunalni

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COMPUTER LITERACYRacunalniško opismenjevanje
in Slovenian schools

• 1994 - 1999 - ...
• Ministry of Education and Sport
• National Education Institute
• mag. Borut Campelj, National Education Institute

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• The basic purpose of the Ro - Computer Literacy
  programme is
• to increase the use of information and
  communication technology in education
• and thus
• to contribute to a more

• efficient,
• modern,
• creative and
• friendly educational environment.

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The goals of the Ro-programme

• to qualify teachers and pupils for the use of
  information and communication technology,
• to equip schools with up-to-date information and
  communication technology,
• to facilitate research and further development in
  the field of introducing new information
  technologies into schools.

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The activities of RO are aimed at all levels of
education

• pre-school education (200),
• primary education (445 380),
• education for children with special needs (70),
• general secondary education (157),
• student dormitories (43),
• teacher training faculties (12),
• other public institutions and organizations
  (youth).

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Education and training Differentiated and
practice-oriented training

• Ro programme has trained 17.000 educators and
  teachers (out of approximately 27.000)
• Four groups of programmes
• basic training (basic tools and internet),
• didactic-methodological training of teachers who
  use computers in their lessons,
• specialised seminars for co-ordinators of
  information systems on 300 primary schools,
• education for projects, special programmes and
  groups.

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Hardware Modern and standardised computer
hardware

• RO has provided educational institutions with
  10.150 computers and additional equipment
• RO stimulated local authorities and sponsors to
  invest in education equipment, so today the
  schools have 17.000 computers in use,
• students computer 171 (primary and general
  secondary education)
• new computers are and should be multimedial and
  connected to the local network with access to the
  Internet

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Software

• Educational software and the basic software
  selection
• The Ro programme makes sure that the schools use
  legal software,
• all computers received by the schools are
  supplied with a licensed basic software basket
  and didactic-educational software.
• The selection is used in 600 schools on 17.000
  computers with 100.000 licences.

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• RO has published the Catalogue of Recommended
  Educational Software. The software can be
  purchased by schools at a very reasonable price.
• RO has co-financed the development of Slovenian
  software for individual subjects, for example
• Slovene (Vabilo, Pavliha (Oris, Opis, Oznaka),
  Pisemska zavozlanka...), History (Emona),
  Geography (Svetovni popotnik, Toplotni pasovi),
  Biology (Vseved), Chemistry (Svetloba in
  kemijska sprememba), Home economics (Financni
  nacrt), Technical education (ciciCAD), Vocational
  subjects (Projekcije, Mehanika in WinMeh, Mehano,
  Arhimed, Leonardo, Zevs)...

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Research and development

• The RO-programme has supported
• 13 research and development projects concerning
  use ICT in education attending the technological
  and social aspects,
• 33 projects developing didactic materials for
  individual subject areas.
• The projects today involve 50 schools, 14
  faculties and 20 companies.

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Internet

• Connecting into computer networks (ARNES,
  September 99)
• 9.000 educators, teachers, school counsellors and
  headmasters and
• 9.000 students and pupils have their own
  usernames,
• 80 schools have permanent access to the Internet
  with leased line and router and 105 schools ISDN
  line (router),
• computer classroom in 185 schools have fast
  access to the Internet (router).

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• Free access to Internet (for teachers and
  students) is provided by the public institution
  ARNES (Academic Research Network of Slovenia)
• Slovenian Educational Network was established
  (http//ro.zrsss.si/, http//www.educa.fmf.uni-lj.
  si/sio/)
• Teachers and students at 70 schools use the
  possibilities of the Internet to either
• communicate with each other and with the outside
  world,
• obtain information from databases in Slovenia and
  abroad,
• present activities of the school,
• take part in virtual debate conferences or
• join national and international educational
  projects (for example Kidlink, ESP, IEARN, EUN
  Schoolnet)

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The ARNES backbone
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WHAT IS AN EDUCATIONAL NETWORK?
what?
to whom?
organization of educational web sites in a useful
system
teachers, students, parents ...
why ?

• to find useful information,
• to publish their experiences and materials,
• to collaborate with partners in educational
• projects,
• to communicate with colleagues (exchange of
• experiences, ON-LINE communication),
• to support open and flexible learning.

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There is no ideal organization form!!
organization form
local environment and cultural background
goals of EUN and others
The structure should be flexible to allow easy
growth in different directions.
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Our membership in EUN Schoolnet

• the EUN Schoolnet has an important role in
  providing coordination and promoting standards
  and unified solutions for national educational
  networks and national copmuter literacy policy
• help us in exchange of educational resources and
  information about interesting events
• active contribution and participation
• would facilitate collaboration in Socrates other
  projects and Council of Europe
• collaboration with other ministries of education
• common actions, materials...

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Velcome to Slovenia!

• Slovenian Educational Network
• http//www.educa.fmf.uni-lj.si/sio/
• Computer Literacy (Ro) programme
• http//ro.zrsss.si/