Current Situation

1. Team Name: InProjectTeam Leader: Anastasia GoncharovaTeam Members: Anastasia GoncharovaSergei GoncharovCountry: Russia

2. Current Situation • Does your classroom look like this? • When … There is a recent study that every 99 in 100 people use computers. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_in_the_world_are_using_computers_today) • There are 2,405,518,376 Internet users in the world on June 30, 2012. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm • Once upon a time came home weeping. • Mum, I am afraid of Mr. Teacher. • - He is, he’s … Authoritarian. He insists on retelling word for word. He put me a poor mark because I used my own words.

3. The mum of our hero saw an article in the e-newspaper: Perfect EducationSchool of Individual Development “Students in our school acquire excellent computer skills and develop personal characteristics so they enter the best universities all over the world and get high-paid Homelike Office Jobs.”

4. Perfect Education: Reality Check School of Individual Development Computer Net school “System City” • Based on conceptions of didactic heuristics, personality-oriented education, individual approach • Effectiveness is confirmed by the group of Moscow Department of Education and Moscow Pedagogical University • Excellent marks got 45-56% of students Good marks – 32-44% Satisfactory marks – 8-11% Poor marks – 0-0, 8% • The level of development of personal characteristics: • Self-organization 83%, self-realization 83%, self-development 88%, reflection 54-66% • Every year students are offered themes of creative project. • A half of all the students produce creative production of high or middle level. • Students that are not good at creative activities are not detected. • It is a complex information system that unites schools and municipal education authorities in a single web implemented in some Russian schools. • Every user of “System City” gets a pass key and can enter the system through the Internet from any computer or laptop. • Parents can see school results and attendance of his/her child • Children can get to know home task or timetable at any moment. They can communicate with each other within “System City”, discuss, for example, the themes of lessons or do sums by joint efforts. • On-line and off-line education is carried out by this system. It means that students can ask a teacher questions and get tasks by e-mail or interact with teachers in a real time mode, for example, by Skype.

5. One Day… One Perfect Day at School The Song of the small boy Don’t wake me up Cause I am not asleep I think I’m in love With my Dream. You are real, My perfect school. One day I’ll come to you And you will be near. One day you’ll take me from The boredom of my ex-school. I don’t get up so early I’ll download the task After on-line computer course. I’m so convinced I’ll be the best Cause no one suppress my potential. Then I hurry up to Perfect School We’ll go for excursion We’ll watch small snakes creeping And analyze their habitual actions. Now is the time We eat delicious lunch. My friend looks at me and cheerfully smiles. Who says that Internet captures communication? Then sports, performance All that stuff. It is time we choose Creative task: Computer program, or research, or modernization Or work of art? Whatever I choose I feel strong It’s my future foundation Of my innovative P-O-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-I-E-S