Students learn to count with digital technology – Göteborgs-Posten

Nearly a year ago, over 5000 students in Angered respective tablet. Now, many of them learn to count using a new math program, where they are counting on the plate instead of the exercise book.

In March last year GP wrote about the initiative on the iPad in Angered schools, which were met with reluctance among some teachers and parents.

– But now we briskly forward. When teachers see all the children sit and work on each device so provides resistance budge, says Tiina Salmela, business developer ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in the SDF Angered.

She describes that when lärplattorna was awarded a third of teachers enthusiastic, one-third were between them, and a third had it harder. But now most of the benefits and opportunities.

Dr Gustavsson, chief safety for Teachers’ Association, agrees that lärplattorna perceived differently by teachers.

– There is full range of places where they work perfectly exemplary, to others where the plate is mostly used as a toy and enables students do not want to come in after the break, she says.

Kikora

Last year, said the union that decision and purchase of Ipads went too fast, they knew neither what they would be filled with or how they would be used. A new study materials are on the way now: the software Kikora. It has been purchased for grades 4-9 and allows students to avoid exercise book in math. Instead, the exercises on the iPad.

– Mathematics requires practice, and it is easier if it is pleasurable. It’s great for those who are a little afraid of mathematics and happy shouts to the teacher when things get difficult, says Tiina Salmela.

– Students should still cry for the teacher, but not to confirm each step. Can you at once confirmation that the step was quite dare to continue.

In addition, the teacher sees which items have been difficult for the class as a whole and that requires a new review.

Some have already jumped the gun with the program.

– When I checked, I was amazed: many math problems were solved between the hours of 16 and 22. Students sat at home in the evening and counted, says Tiina Salmela .

A school that already has previously acquired Kikora is Monk Gärde School in Kungälv.

– We are satisfied, says Rector Malin Frykman. But for students and parents, it was a culture shock when we removed the math book. We got hold information evenings for parents, which we should have done from the beginning.

– Sweden’s poor performance in the PISA survey may be due in part textbook fixation. The textbook does not stimulate thinking, which, however this teaching material does.

Facts: Norwegian programs

* Kikora is a digital learning materials originating in Norway.

* 45 teachers in Angered receive on Wednesday a three-hour training tool.

* The schools in Angered will be pilots for a language venture, where räkneuppgifterna not only described in Swedish but also in Arabic and Somali, targeting the newly arrived students.

* The cost of the SDF Angered, according to Tiina Salmela SEK 75 000 for 1500 students in grades 4-9.