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Motivating young people to study MST:the role of digital learning resources

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Inspire

Comenius project funded by DG Education and Culture as part of the Lifelong Learning Programme

December 2007 – November 2009

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Inspire (Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education).Purpose: challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies and more widely to extend the supply of scientific specialists and develop a scientific culture in European countries.During 10 months Inspire gathered data to:• Observe the impact of these new teaching methods on pupils and on their motivation.• Analyse the pre-requisites to be defined for enabling teachers to integrate these new techniques in their pedagogy.• Identify the critical success factors to be mastered at teacher and school level for the generalization of such practices.

Inspire

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Inspire

+ LR =

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Inspire

LR = digital learning resources

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Inspire

+ LR =?

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Inspire

+ LR =?

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Inspire methodology

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• 63 schools• 5 countries• 5 languages

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Before After

LR 1 LR 2 LO N...

Inspire questionnaires

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Learning Resources (LR)

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Physics LR

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Languages of the LR

en ca de es it lt

Physics 12 3 2 5 2 0

Chemistry 12 0 1 1 1 0

Biology 12 0 1 1 1 0

Mathematics 12 2 3 4 3 0

IT 12 0 0 0 0 0

Total 60 5 7 11 7 0

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Languages

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Overview

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Suggestions

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Minimum number of words

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Terms

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Metadata

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Pilot schools

Schools

Types

Teachers

Pupils

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Selection of LR

The LR were used 904 times

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Selection criteria for the LR

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Good

• highest impact: autonomous learning of pupils.

• ¾ LR stimulated own interest and motivation for teaching MST.

• 70% said the LR increased the pupils’ understanding and use of ICT in general.

• 2/3 noticed that the LR stimulated pupils’ interest and motivation for learning MST.

• facilitated differentiated teaching of sciences in the classroom

Results from teachers

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Not so good...

• AT, DE, ES and IT: [en] → [local lang]

• ES + IT: problems with PC / Internet...

Results from teachers

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Results from students

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• Greater impact on boys than on girls;

• Impact decreases with the age, specially among female

students (ICT survey);

• For virtually all items surveyed impact perceived by LT and

ES (and IT) >> AT and DE;

• No real impact as far as the number of LR used.

Results from students

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Overall, it appears the use of LR has a positive impact on and MST education but special attention has to be placed on technical requirements and localization of the LR.

Conclusions

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