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07 Blog Juni - Juli 2008
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Ilpo Halonen writes in his blog since November 2002. The texts are mostly about educational ICT, but there may be some other current topics too. Thanks to translator of Google the German texts can be read in (bad) English. /Ilpo Halonen schreibt in sein Blog seit November 2002. Die Texte sind meistens über computermedialen Unterricht, aber es gibt auch andere Themen, die hier behandelt werden können. Mittels der Übersetzungsmaschine im Web können die Texte direkt im (schlechten) Englischen gelesen werden.
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22.8. Die Dienstagsrunde der DaF Community startet am Dienstag den 26. August 2008 um 19 Uhr mitteleuropaeische Zeit (GMT+2 Sommerzeit) in http://dafnet.web2.0campus.net/?page_id=34 Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!
Echtzeittreffen am Europa-Tag
Der Dafnord e.V. wird den Europa-Tag der Sprachen am Freitag den 26.9. 2008 feiern. Fuer Deutschlehrer wird ein Echtzeittreffen auf der Videoplattform der E-Journale veranstaltet.
Freie E-Journale fuer Bild-Projektmacher
„Das Bild der Anderen“ in http://www.goethe.de/bild ist die erfolgreichste Projektumwelt fuer Deutschlehrer geworden. Dafnord hat bei dem Umzug der Bild-Projektwelt zum Goethe-Institut Krakau mitgeholfen und will ihren Erfolg auch weiter unterstuetzen. Alle Bild-Projektmacher koennen sich ein freies E-Journal in http://daf.eduprojects.net/index.php?output=ContactPage() schaffen. E-Journale sind dezentralisierte Web-Tools, wo Lehrer selbst Administratoren sind. Ueber die Online-Fortbildung mehr in der Dienstagsrunde der DaF Community (sieh bitte oben!) (Die Internet-Adresse der freien E-Journale findet man in http://daf.eduprojects.net unter dem Link KONTAKT).
Botschaftler Pro-Deutsch
Der Vorstand des Dafnord e.V. will Echtzeit-Fortbildung fuer „Botschaftler Pro-Deutsch“ im Rahmen der Dienstagsrunde organisieren. Die Fortbildung wird in Zusammenarbeit
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mit dem Goethe-Institut Helsinki vorgeplant.
Aktiv in Nordplus
Nordplus ist ein nordisches Sprach- und Kulturprogramm, wo Deutschlehrer im Norden und in Baltien mitbeteiligt sein koennen. Im Herbst 2008 gibt es einen ausserplanmaessigen Termin fuer Antraege. Fuer Schullehrer sind z.B. Nordplus Junior und Nordplus Nabo (=Nachbar) empfehlenswert.
Dafnord ermutigt alle skandinavische und baltische Kollegen in Nordplus aktiv zu sein. Fuer Zusammenarbeit mit Lehrern in Nordwest-Russland wird vom Nordischen Ministerialrat bald ein besonderes Programm bekanntgemacht. Mehr dazu in http://www.nordplusonline.org/ .
Dafnord macht in SimSafety mit
Dafnord ist ein Partner im Antrag fuer das EU –Projekt „SimSafety: Flight Simulator for Internet Safety“. Das koordinierende Institut ist Hellenic Open University. Wenn der Antrag angenommen wird, koennen die Dafnord –Mitglieder um das Thema Internet-Sicherheit zusammenarbeiten. Die gemeinsame Sprache des Projekts ist Englisch, aber die teilnehmenden Organisationen koennen und sollen auch in anderen Sprachen taetig sein, im Fall des Dafnord e.V. natuerlich auf Deutsch.
Dafnord –Jahresversammlung live online
Die Jahresversammlung des Dafnord e.V. findet am 2. 10. 2008 um 18 Uhr MEZ (um 19 Uhr finnische Zeit) in Tampere Finnland statt. Fuer Mitglieder wird eine Moeglichkeit angeboten, auch live online in der Versammlung mitzumachen.
Herzlichst,
:-) ilpo
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17.8. This summer I have been following discussions of two different groups. One of the groups are teachers who take part in a project established by Alan Britton of the University of Glasgow, and the other group consists of teenagers preparing for the Youth Summit (YS) in Panchgani, near Mumbai, India in October 2008. In both groups Finns seem to be the most active contributors of texts.
When I compare the texts of teachers and students, it strikes me that there are not so big differences when it comes to their intellectual level. Teacher contributions take place on the Moodle learning platform of the university of Glasgow, and discussions are structured in a deliberate manner. Alan has given some well-funded topics to be discussed, and he is looking forward to texts from all participants who have registered themselves for his course. Instead, students of YS do not follow any pre-defined structure, but write about topics they find interesting. And they have not taken any steady platform into use, but exchange their ideas by email.
You can read and compare some extracts of the texts here below. Can you possibly find out which text clip comes from a teacher and which one from a student.
1. BTW, what is your (I mean everyone's) opinion of neutralizing carbon dioxide emissions from flights, etc? I mean when you take a flight, and then pay to a company which removes the same amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as the flight caused. Many people feel negatively about this. What do you think? I think it has good and bad aspects to it. (Saara, Finland)
2. Our history books in the Finnish schools are quite eurocentric as you said. But luckily for us we have nowadays one course in the upper secondary schools which deals the cultures outside Europe. (Marjaana, Finland)
3. The lead about G8 -meeting was a few days old. I was watching news and there was some new information bout it. G8 leaders are planning an agreement. By year 2050 greenhouse gases should be cut -50%, India and China are not okey with that, cos they are just lately started to develop, so they are concentrading on developing and deducting poverty. (Heta, Finland)
4. Do you really mean to say that we have the right to 'take justice' into our hands in peace times and decide who has to live and who has to die? Isn't it against the laws of any civilized country? In 'our dilemma' we are technically speaking of 'murder', not of 'killing', which makes a difference.There's are limits to the extent one can intervene, even when one's intentions
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are good. (Manuela, Italy)
5. You don't have to say sorry - I know perfectly well how it happens that you consider a country 'boring'. I had the same conception about Germany: a boring country, and quite not my cup of tea... Then I visited it and met lots of nice, friendly, interesting people and a city with both history and modern city life - and was fascinated! Is Germany really like this - not boring at all! Now I've been there three times, have many friends who are all different but still German, and willingly admit that I didn't know what I was talking about. (Pirjo, Finland)
6. Of course it feels bad to think that I use almost 150 liters of clear water/day but some people have that much water in six months. We even flush our toilets and wet our lawns with drinkable water, it's insane! Water hasn't divided evenly in the world, which causes problems. No one can completely change the situation, but the developed countries should help as much as they can. With our benefits for example wells could be build in arid areas and that's already something. (Leila, Finland)
7. Now I choose my friends and I really have true friends making this important distinction. It's only a pity that I had to change my spontanous attitude towards people. (Sylvana, Italy)
8. Many people eat porridge also in the Finnish cities. I hope it doesn't become super food here, too. I avoid cooking it in the microwave, even though I know it is not dangerous. There are some periods when porridge made of oat flakes, with a click of butter and some milk, tastes so good in the morning. I accept people eating porridge with sugar, too, and I can't see it as a dilemma. (Heikki, Finland
9. In addition, I recognize the growth that I have had as an individual through becoming more aware of the wider global community and I am ever more hungry to learn more and further develop my cultural knowledge and skills. I also can't wait to make new contacts. (Agnes, Scotland)
10. I´ve heard that the climate change might also mess with the Gulf Stream which influences mostly the climate of Western Europe, but ours too. If the Stream truly changes its routes/stops it could mean some sort of a mini ice-age for us. That´s probably the worst case scenario but possible in theory nevertheless. So I guess we need to enjoy the warmth now as much as we can, just in case ; - ) (Sari, Finland)
Do you think it’s easy to decide whether the writer is a teacher or a student? You can find the correct answers by clicking on the link below.
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12.7. “Young people share, apply and produce media content for themselves and for their peers, instead of being passive consumers of media”, says Mrs. Suvi Tuominen in her article of a visiting author in Helsingin Sanomat, the leading Finnish newspaper July 12, 2008. She is a designer of juvenile work in the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.
The observation of Suvi Tuominen is in line with studies made in the USA. What teenagers read today are texts not written by professional authors or journalists, but by their peers. The 3g phone connections are integrated directly into the new lap tops, handheld computers and mobile phones. In practical terms, media interaction with peers has become ubiquitous, and teenagers know how to do it.
Just the other day I sat in a bus going to Helsinki, and there were two girls at the age of 10 or 11 sitting in front of me. One of them had got a new mobile phone, and the other one wanted to know about the new features of the phone. In the following 15-20 minutes she gave her instructions to her peer in such an articulate way that I learned a lot about mobile phones just overhearing what she said. Although our age difference was 50 years our roles as teacher and student had turned upside down.
This short incidence in the bus heading to Helsinki centre was also a good example of informal learning. What we learn today is 80 % informal learning, says a research made by Nokia.
There are computers at homes of almost all 10 – 17 year-old-children, according to statistics. Nine of 10 children have also Internet access. Despite that fact, parents know little about what their children do in the Internet. Neither do parents keep tab on their online pursuits, argues Suvi Tuominen. Parents do not know the web services their children mostly use, where they communicate and publish. IRC-galleria.net has 489 515 registered users (12.7. 2008), and the average age of users is 20, 1 years. Habbo Hotel in Finland has about 1,7 million visitors in a month. The average age of visitors is lower in Habbo Hotel than in IRC-galleria.net. Correspondingly, there are about 500 000 teenagers at the age of 13 – 19 years in Finland.
Children in Finland learn together in comprehensive schools for 9 years. A fresh doctoral thesis revealed that compared to the total time of those nine school years children stay at computers outside school for 4, 5 years. The amount of what they adopt from the Internet must be quite a lot. Of course, it is quite irresponsible if a child is left alone in the Internet. Not only is the child exposed to unfit web pages staying only at the distance of some mouse clicks, but there is also the risk to be involved in communities
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which have an unfavorable influence on his or her growth. Timonen gives examples of peer groups such as those who adore anorexia or suicide.
I come back to quoting Suvi Tuominen again, more freely this time. Mutual peer support of youth online, she says, can be a new opportunity for juvenile work in the Internet. As all parents know, teenagers do not want to identify with grown-ups but with those who are at the same age as they themselves. Online support given by adults may be too far from teenagers’ world. However, if they can plan and put the activities into practice on their own, activities tend to have more street-credibility.
Timonen mentions many different kinds of peer support children and teenagers can implement online: chat, forums, cartoons, photo reportages, articles, tests, polls, blogs etc. The starting point of such activities is that media is not only used a means of information, but it creates social spaces and opportunities for the young ones to construct their identity.
It was really nice to read the article of Suvi Tuominen. Her thoughts and theses match well with the ideas of eJournalism I have tried to spread among teachers for many years. So I think it’s O.K. to conclude this text to a quotation from one of my earlier presentations about peer collaboration:
Students and pupils work on their everyday experiences and learn to see school subjects in the context of real life. Both teachers and students can give full flow to their creativeness, which gives rise to innovations. Working together with peers intensifies collaboration. There are both asynchronous activities regardless of time and place and contacts strictly bound to the time and place, on the other hand, such as live online sessions. Students and pupils learn competences, more than abstract subjects. They feel stronger as their competences grow better, and they can realize it by themselves, even with a less strict control system of notes. This leads to a rise of enthusiasm and engagement on both sides. Teachers have a better use for the unproductive time they have used for controlling students. Teachers coach their students and pupils, and let them set new and more demanding goals for themselves. Teachers are there to help students to construct their knowledge content and improve their skills. Evaluation is more versatile as there is more variety in products of students. Products are recorded and saved in digital portfolios of students. Sustainable competences of students are certified in documents such as EuroPass. Intercultural knowledge of students increases in educational collaboration across borders. Better self-confidence and self-respect lead to human growth.
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10.7. 2008 New users of skype, Jajah and other VoIP telephone services can be counted in millions. There is also a growing number of people interested in more sophisticated live online services offering shared applications, such as showing presentations, browsing web pages together with others, or sharing actions on your screen by screen casting. Audio and video are included as essential components of web conferencing. The rise of multimedia is enabled by the advancing broadband connections, and there is increasing demand of larger and larger bandwidth among the households.
Integration of the Internet and of the phone services is one mega trend of today. It is also a most important incentive for millions of people to come to terms with the web. There are a great number of people who are not so familiar with computers, but do you know anyone who cannot make a phone call. There is a story about my grandmother who was young when the telephone first came to her household in the 1940s. The apparatus was attached on the wall of the living room. She had not learned to know it yet. Once she was alone in the house, when the phone rang. It did not stop ringing, and, finally, she had to lift up the receiver. “There is no one here, and I am nobody ”, she shouted to the phone and put the receiver back.
Today VoIP calls prepare people to get accustomed to live online contacts, which are basically much easier to perform than, for example, the use of email. When the Internet opens for people via the mobile phones, there will be a new rush for services. All Internet players want to show their readiness for the mobile web market, and new services are being developed feverishly.
Simultaneously, the same trend is reflected in the popularity of new devices on the market. One hit product of the Finnish market is a slim, inexpensive laptop, 264 euro a piece, with 512 kilobytes RAM memory plus 4 GB Flash storing space. The size of RAM memory will grow, and memory sticks and other external devices using USB can satisfy the need of more storing space. The providers of broadband and of 3g have noticed how desirable such devices are for customers who want to use them as multi-purpose tools in
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various functions of their daily lives. On the other hand, the iPhone 3g of Apple is just looking for a chance to take over the mobile phone market both in North America and in Europe. It is said that there is no better device, for the time being, that integrates your needs about the services of the Internet and about your personal phone calls in your pocket. Nokia, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson and other big players of the mobile market are really facing a big challenge.
I don’t know how fast things are changing elsewhere, but I have the impression that Finland is one of the countries in Europe who are proceeding most rapidly in ICT as a whole. Just this afternoon there was a big lorry in front of our house bringing us two big bags of sand that we need for the sandbox of our grandchildren. There was a long crane in the lorry which the driver steered with a kind of joystick. As I talked to him, the driver told me that he had planned his driving route to different places using the fixed GPS device he had in the cab of the lorry. “The thing saves me a lot of time”, he said.
I suppose this country is not the last one to adopt innovations and to face new technological challenges. Especially the net generations of 1982 and thereafter welcome new technological opportunities and do not hesitate to introduce them into their daily routines. They were born and they have grown up with the new technology. It is as simple as this with older generations, even if the age difference is just a couple of years.
As a teacher, I witness this in my working environment. The students who I teach now take ICT for granted. Some years ago there were students who wondered if they ever need ICT skills. They even referred to teachers who had advised them to take ICT not too serious. Even today there are teachers who don’t say anything against ICT, but who make the disservice to the students by their silent message, which is “could not interest me less”.
Integration of the mobile phone calls and of the web services can only have positive effects on the attitudes of the older generations I guess. It may lower the threshold of their entering the Internet and of making the web a scene of eLearning.
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8.7. The Youth Summit of students from Finland and from the Netherlands together with their Indian peers is being prepared by the teachers and students involved in this important event of geographic mobility between European and Indian schools. Peter Patrao, the coordinator of the event in Panchgani,
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has committed himself to correspondence with the students who are involved in the preparation of the Youth Summit taking place in October 2008. Of course, students love to be in contact with Peter. I also sent him a letter where text was turned to speech to help Peter to recieve it.
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Peter and the Youth Summit
Please click on the link to listen to .mp3 where the message of Ilpo is turned from text to speech by software. |
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05 Blog Mai 2008
Bitte klicken Sie den Link an, um das Blog Mai 2008 zu lesen. /Please click on the link to read the blog May 2008. |
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02.01.2009 - Ilpo Halonen
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