Lars Egelands blogg

Today Helge and Tord and I have visited Rommen school. The school is under construction and is supposed to by finished in december this year. It will have 700 pupils from  1^st to 10^th grade. We were invited because the management of the school is dedicated to create what they call a total digital school. In addition to ordinary school facilities there will also be a culture hall, a training center for social training for families – and a library. The library will serve the public as well as the school. Two librarians will be employed by Deichmann Public Library (the public library of Oslo), and one librarian by the school. They have 600 square meters, and they wonder how they shall use them. They would rather have a library with digital resources than a storage of books. The whole school will have wireless LAN in addition to 2000 LAN contacts. It is unusual to have a management so dedicated to use digital resources in the teaching. All classrooms will have Smartboards and there will be a lot of other digital information screens. How can digital tools be implemented in the teaching? What can be done to make so that the digital tools are being implemented by all the teachers – not only the tech-nerds?

They showed us the building and we deceided to have a new meeting over summer. This can be a very interesting laboratorium on learning and teaching in the digital world.