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The Spider – a brokerage service for learning resources in Sweden

The Spider – a brokerage service for learning resources in Sweden. The Swedish National Agency for School Improvement (The Swedish Agency for Education) Christina Szekely, Director of Education. ICT in Swedish schools and the task for our Agency.

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The Spider – a brokerage service for learning resources in Sweden

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  1. The Spider – a brokerage service for learning resources in Sweden • The Swedish National Agency for School Improvement • (The Swedish Agency for Education) • Christina Szekely, Director of Education

  2. ICT in Swedish schools and the task for our Agency • The Agency has the overall commission to support ICT development in schools. • Our role is to promote the use of ICT in education, mainly by supporting the municipalities in their task.

  3. ICT in Swedish schools and the task for our Agency • In our work we focus on: • the new school portal “ICT for teachers” • tools for in-service training for teachers • giving schools access to digital learning resources • the national infrastructure and standards for exchanging and storing information related to education • safer use of Internet and new media • cooperation with other national and international actors

  4. Digital learning resources in Sweden • No production or national financing of digital learning recourses • All repositories in our project The Spider are owned by other actors (public service, museums, organisations etc.) • Focus on research and development

  5. The Spider • Give schools access to high quality digital learning resources • Easy to find digital learning resources • Searches can be made directly from the school's website

  6. ICT for teachers – web portal • Support for teachers with an interest in using ICT as a tool for education. • Home for The Spider • http://itforpedagoger.skolutveckling.se/hitta_material/

  7. How to place the search module on any website • <iframesrc="http://spindeln.iml.umu.se:9090/spindeln/fire/search.action?render=spindeln-advanced" height="400" width="445“ frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"></iframe>

  8. Connected repositories • 4000 Internet resources – all curriculum subjectsThe Link Library (MSU) 2000 Internet resources – nature, science and mathematicsThe science Hub (MSU) • 2000 images and soundsImage and sound archives from Multimediabyrån (MSU) • Web, radio and video resourcesMedia archive from the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR)500 digital resources from Swedish MuseumsThe Swedish Museum Window a repository for schools from The Museum of National Antiquities

  9. Modularization of the learning architecture: supporting learning theories by learning technologies • Doctoral thesis by • Fredrik Paulsson, Umeå University • http://www.diva-portal.org/kth/theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=4712

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