All children receive tablets – NRK

Larvik bet that all children will be using new technology in their schoolwork. Therefore, all pupils at primary and secondary schools have their own tablet.

– There are certainly full tablet coverage in Larvik in 2019, says project manager for tablet initiative Jørn Andersen in Larvik.

it will cost the municipality 6.5 million annually to lease tablets to all students in the community.

snapped read the code

in Larvik, some classes had their own tablets. Have long since Master Mountain school arrived. This school year got all the 500 students from 1.-10. Step respective tablets. First graders snapped read code faster with tablets and method writing to reading.

– Before so we hoped that all first graders had learned to read for Easter. Until Christmas most had managed to read, says Rector Eva Lise Børven Olsen and also gives credit to enthusiastic teachers to facilitate effective learning.

The method students used was to use headphones, write a letter and hear the sound of the ear.

VARIED TEACHING: Rector Eva Lise Olsen Børven and ICT administrator Joachim Gjertsen at Champion Hill school believes teaching has become more varied and customized to each student after all teachers and students were given tablets.

Photo: Hege Therese Holtung / NRK

Individual training

not only the first graders have had the effect of tablet her school. She says that with tablet is easier to give students diverse and more personalized training.

– We can arrange for the individual pupil is much easier than we could before. Pupils who have reading problems can read the current text. Pupils who have difficulty writing, helped by a straight function to write properly, says Børven Olsen.

She believes the benefit of the students have their own tablet is that it is easily accessible and there saves time rather than go to the computer room or grab tablets.

tablet motivates boys

ICT administrator Joachim Gjertsen at Champion Hill school looks more motivated students.

– the boys think that school is fun when they can write on tablet, making movies or read your homework and send it to the teacher, he said.

in class 8b confirms boys that they prefer the tablet rather than write in draft book.

– It’s better with tablets. Then typos corrected, says Ibrahim.

– It is faster to write on tablet, says Mohammed.

Ministry of Education Centre for ICT in education has no record of how high tablet or pC share is at primary schools in Norway.

– We note that the schools which have opted purposefully built expertise and use tablets as an integral part of the instruction, report good effects . This must involve more research, says Director Trond Ingebretsen in ICT in education.