In Norway

Institution:                             Steigen sentralskole, 8281 Leinesfjord, Norway

Education level:                      Primary and lower secondary (6 - 16)

Description:                         

ICT is used for all grades, but particularly at secondary level. It is used to gather information from the internet, e-mail communication tool between pupils and teachers and between pupils, virtual classroom with learning platform, computers used during exams for grade 10 and as presentation tool. The school collaborates and is networked with 5 other schools in the region as participants in a project called "Classroom 2020" where they stay in contact through the internet with several schools in England and the Netherlands. The school works cross-curricular with most subjects and pupils sometimes work with projects from their homes during school hours.

Institution:                             Saltdal videregående skole, 8250 Rognan, Norway

Education level:                      Upper secondary, (16 - 19)

Description:

ICT is used in particular in a project called "Further Education in Outlaying Districts" where the school serves a host school for learning resources given to students in remote areas who live at home in municipalities where there is no upper secondary school. The learning resources are given by internet from the host school to the students who all have their own computers at a local learning centre. The theoretical studies in vocational subjects are combined with an apprenticeship program where students work in local enterprises every other week. There is close collaboration via e-mail between responsible teachers at the host school and the instructors at the local learning centre and at the local enterprise. Some of the students in remote areas have two host schools, one for general subjects and another for vocational subject. In addition ICT is used for instructional purposes to various degrees in different subject for ordinary students at the host school.

Institution:                             Hitra videregående skole, 7239 Hitra, Norway

Education level:                      Upper secondary, (16 - 19)

Description:

ICT is used in close connection with a special island model of studies where this school is linked with the upper secondary school on the neighbouring island Frøya. Students are placed in local enterprises for 6 weeks during the school year. ICT is used to link each student with the home school during this period, and to make possible cooperation between teachers and local instructors/supervisors in the enterprises. ICT is also used to create electronic logs to document the pupils' work with different goals in the curriculum. The school subscribes to the digital learning system Classfronter. This is a netbased administration system for learning and teaching where one can access virtual rooms for learning. In these rooms there are tools for communication and cooperation and functionality for sharing information, organising texts and links and for evaluation purposes. All teachers and a large part of the student population have their own portable PC with an internet connection through cell phones. ICT is also used to provide more individualised programs in special education.