IT for US

The project Information Technology for Understanding Science aims to design a modular in-service training course for science teachers and to create the supporting courseware materials. The materials for teacher training exemplify innovative pedagogy which exploits the unique qualities of IT. The focus is on four types of software application related to practical science featuring constructivist approach: data-logging, video measurement, modeling and simulation.

The project started in 2005 as co - operation the partners: AMSTEL - Amsterdam Mathematics Science Technology Education Laboratory, University of Amsterdam; FCTUNL - College of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon; University of Leicester - School of Education; UCY - University of Cyprus, Department of Educational Science; Pedagogical University of Cracow - Chair of Computer Science.

Our Centre is a coordinator of the project.

The project is supported by Socrates Comenius (Action 2.1. Training of School Education Staff)
web page: www.itforus.oeiizk.waw.pl
contact person: Elzbieta Kawecka ..@..

IDWBL

The project Innovative Didactics via Web Based Learning is a multinational cooperation between teacher trainers and researchers from Bulgaria, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland and the Slovak Republic. The project is aimed at developing course materials, which can be applied by teacher trainers to prepare student-teachers (or in-service teachers) regarding the use of WWW in education. The second goal is to store course materials in an international data base. Project ended in December 2006.

web page: idwbl.oeiizk.waw.pl
e-mail: idwbl@oeiizk.waw.pl

MatComp

In september 2000 we have launched international project MatComp - ICT in learning and teaching mathematics. Our Centre is a coordinator of the project. There are also partners from Slovakia and United Kingdom involved. The project lasted 3 years and was supported by Socrates Comenius.

web page: www.matcomp.pl
e-mail: matcomp@oeiizk.waw.pl

WWWtrain

Training to Use WWW in Education Project started in 2000 as a co-operation of teacher trainers and WWW experts from Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland togather with experts from the European Schoolnet. The main focus of the project was to develop courses to train teachers to use WWW in education.
Final raport published in 2003 is:
W.J. Pelgrum & Tj. Plomp (Eds.): TRAINING TO USE WWW IN EDUCATION: Multinational cooperation between teacher educators from Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland. Enschede: Universiteit Twente, Faculteit Gedragswetenschappen, 2003 ISBN: 90 365 1908x

Polish web page: www.oeiizk.edu.pl/wspolpraca/gajek/wwwtrain.htm
Contact person: Elzbieta Gajek ..@..

CoLabs

We take part in Minerva project guided by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó form Eötvös Loránd University, Informatics Methodology Group.

Objectives of the project:
Our major challenge is to find ways to support children in building and testing models collaboratively across European cultures and beyond. Our objectives are to provide infrastructure for collaborative work; to provide answers for guiding research questions: with whom, how and what kinds of knowledge should children learn at a distance and how best can they be supported in this learning; and to develop learning tools that can be transferable into other domains using the Imagine authoring system.

web page: matchsz.inf.elte.hu/Colabs
e-mail: turcsanyine@ludens.elte.hu

IITE UNESCO

Our Centre is a national focal point of UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)

The mission of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education is to strengthen the national capacities of UNESCO Member States for applying ICTs in education.

While accomplishing this mission during the period of the first IITE Medium-Term Strategy (2002-2007), the Institute will assist UNESCO Member States in providing the following: an effective educational strategy, overcoming the digital knowledge divide between developing and developed countries and within them, and the creation of necessary conditions for their full value participation in the development of the evolving information society.

Schoolnet

In 2000 our portal for teachers - Edukus (www.oeiizk.edu.pl) together with Ministry of National Education and Sport were the polish partners of Schoolnet (www.eun.org). Now such a partner is Interkl@sa (www.interklasa.pl).

We are involved in preparing polish translation of materials from:
Virtual School (www.eun.org/vs)
School Managers Centre (smc.eun.org)

ICTime

Project ICTime - ICT as a tool of intercultural and media education aims at supporting teachers, teacher educators and students in the use of ICT in intercultural and media education.

Within the project two photo contests for school children were organised and very well attended among young people all over Europe. The team of teacher trainers form Latvia, Poland, Portugal and Romania has prepared a course for teachers, piloted and implemented in the participating countries.