Kemi (Finland): SnowCastle

Snow Castle 2013

Once again the SnowCastle of Kemi is being built, this winter the seventeenth time in a row, right in the centre of the City of Kemi. The first SnowCastle in 1996, was a gift from the UNICEF together with the City of Kemi to all the children in the whole wide world.

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SnowCastle

Sistema Bibliotecario Bresciano

E’ fruibile online il nuovo portale denominato “MediaLibraryOnLine”, la biblioteca digitale quotidiana, con contenuti digitali che spaziano dai libri, alla musica (audiostreaming and Mp3) agli argomenti suddivisi per categorie (arte, film ,musica, economia, lavoro) nonchè un’edicola con molti quotidiani e periodici e banche dati. Raggiungibile all’indirizzo:

Medialibrary

 

Gammelstaden (Luleå Old Town)

Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a ‘church village’, a unique kind of village formerly found throughout northern Scandinavia. The 424 wooden houses, huddled round the early 15th-century stone church, were used only on Sundays and at religious festivals to house worshippers from the surrounding countryside who could not return home the same day because of the distance and difficult travelling conditions. (Unesco description)

Lulea/Gammelstad

 

Finnish school system

Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains how the nation achieved extraordinary successes by deemphasizing testing……

Finnish school

So, Finland basically focuses on teachers and not on domestic testing. Those PISA tests that you cite are international assessments.

That’s absolutely right. There is no domestic testing except a very quiet auditing program to test demographic samples of kids; not for accountability, not for public consumption, and not for comparison across schools. The fascinating thing is that because they have created such a high level of professionalism, they can trust their teachers. Their motto is “Trust Through Professionalism.” The difference between the highest performing school in Finland and the lowest performing school in Finland is less than four percent, and that’s without any testing at all….”

 

La LIM: lavagna interattiva multimediale

Di cosa si tratta? per una accurata descrizione si può consultare questo link:

L.I.M.

Relativamente a me, faccio parte dei Tutor del Gruppo Regionale della Lombardia , formati dall’Agenzia Nazionale Indire (Ansas). Il piano di Formazione Nazionale è consultabile a questo link: Scuola Digitale . Da due anni gestiamo i corsi di formazione sul territorio, rivolti a docenti della Primaria e della Secondaria di primo grado e con diverse tipologie di LIM. Esistono diversi siti che parlano di Lim, video in Youtube (lim) gruppi online che si occupano della risorsa e delle tematiche ad essa collegate. Nel nostro gruppo regionale è nata l’idea di un wiki specifico, che abbracciando la filosofia del crowdsourcing sia un punto di riferimento di esperienze, materiali, risorse e contatti.