Playing computer games in school may sound like the kids rule the classroom. But European researchers have shown that such games can be used to boost learning.

Profiles of 14 schools have been recently added to the Calibrate gallery which includes self-portraits of nearly 75 schools participating in the project. The profiles have been drawn up by the schools themselves and include information concerning the role of ICT in respective schools...

Ján Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, awarded this year’s top European school collaboration projects at the 2007 eTwinning conference “eTwinning Past, Present and Future” which brought together teachers from across...

57% of young people make their online social network profiles public and disclose a great deal of personal information, according to a recent survey of 21,872 people across Europe organised by European Schoolnet, coordinator of European Insafe network. Almost a third of youngsters...

Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media announced on 6 February 2007 the results of the Safer Internet Day competition for the award categories of e-privacy, netiquette, power of image and innovation. The competition took place in connection with Safer Internet...

European Schoolnet visited the Technolink centre in Luxembourg during a Peer Learning Activity (PLA) organised by the European Commission DG EAC’s ICT cluster in September 2006. Among the many initiatives that were presented and showcased around the issue of collaboration,...

Educnet, the education portal of the French Ministry of Education, has released 17 videos, available for direct streaming, showcasing how ICT can be effectively used in classroom environments. The videos (in French), available at http://www.educnet.education.fr/tv are a useful tool...

Available on Insight and on the Calibrate mini-site is the Calibrate School Gallery. Regularly new schools are presented in this section from the 70 schools in the Calibrate project. In this newsletter we present the elementary school Josefa Mareše a nursery school in the Czech...

INSIGHT schools are schools that are leading the way in e-maturity, that is exploiting technology to the full to benefit teaching and learning and transform schooling. Spread all over Europe they provide a qualitative sample of practice in ICT. They have been selected to take part...

Stanislaw Hadynas primary school in Chorzów

In Northgo College in The Netherlands, the vision of education is moving towards a child-centred learning with a focus on individual learning. The role of teachers is changing and becomes more innovative and interactive enabling pupils to structure their own learning. One of the...

As part of the P2P project led by European Schoolnet, a series of 14 schools have visited each other to know more about how ICT is used in other school in a process called ‘peer learning’. Now the results of their visits and challenges have been published: Policy Peer...

The education world looks at the experiences of fourteen schools having undertaken a peer review visit in another European country. Within the framework of the P2P Project, teachers and school leaders from fourteen Dutch, Finnish, French, and N. Irish schools took part in peer learning...

School leaders and teachers from Northern Ireland, The Netherlands, France and Finland visited and welcomed their partner schools in the four participating countries of the P2P project. P2P allows to exchange ICT practice, learn from each other and bring home some understanding of...

Does ICT make education more contemporary, more efficient and more effective? Read more about how ICT has changed the teaching and learning in 20 schools throughout Europe...