Patricia Pausenberger Summary

Did meeting in Estonia fulfill your reason for attending?

Yes it did. The different backgrounds of the members in the group was a good basic to discuss all themes related to visit in education in Estonia. Their education system is different from Flanders in structure and organiation en it seems that schools are well equiped when it comes to ICT. Important is that schools have an educational technologist beside the ict-coördinator(s).


What is the most interesting for you?
Tiger leap en Eurotiger;
E-skool
The system of e-skool could be intresting in a European context to make student information exchangeable in case of migration,...etc.
The fact that teachers coöperate better in about subject matters installing an electronic school and that textbooks get less important although reading texts offline is still important.
Some schools in their ict-policy decide with the whole team about ict matters. Important argument for the use of smartboards in classes of the youngest pupils so that there knowlegde can grow during their total schoolcareer;
In the years for students from 16-18 year learning to programm is possible but few are talented at last 8guidance comes from university (a kind of coöperation)

What do you think about Estonia?

Development of the integration of ICT in schoolpractice has a good pace.
Estonished about the fact that all parents have access to the internet to use e-skool.
An important difference with the Flemish education system is that students and parents make a choice for studiecareer at the age of !6 YEAR.