Those students who want to are taking coding lessons in the science room with the MIT’s Digital Literacies project, learning first steps towards programming.

The teacher displays a pre-prepared worksheet, his own creation, on the interactive whiteboard and enters the answers given by the students using a digital pen.

In geography class today it’s all about finding information from an atlas and online. What companies are there in Silicon Valley, and why are they there?

Today’s topic is satire. The students are invited to google to find a definition. Then the teacher shows them an extract from the current edition of the German satirical TV show Neo Magazin Royale on the interactive whiteboard.

We’re taking a tour of the classrooms. A look into several of them reveals students working with laptops, other classes aren’t using IT and some are doing lo- and hi-tech learning at the same time. The impression I get is that the laptops are just another piece of school equipment, alongside the books, pens, paper, […]

Today’s the day my research at the GESS in Singapore gets underway. My first impression is one of calm confidence in the use of digital media. They’re simply part of school life.

Using his laptop, the teacher makes live comments and corrections on the pieces the students are writing on their iPads. No nasty surprises with this method.

The Georg Eckert Institute has arrived at the GISB – and brought a sweet surprise with it.

The school premises are full of screens and projectors showing video installations created by students. It’s like an art exhibition. You can see some photos of the “Noche de Colores” on the German School Abroad La Paz Website.

It’s group work time. The students are using paper today. When it’s time to present what they’ve done, they place their writing pads under the document camera so their work appears on the digital blackboard. At one point, when the teacher points out what seems to be an error, the students are able to use […]