Version vom 12. Mai 2009, 00:46 Uhr

One Laptop per Child?-Ne(x)t Generation Learning?

Does the OLPC-Idea work-Chances and Problems?

Analyze the following sources an write the answer into our blog (don't forget the date!)

• Teams 1 and 2:

• Answer the three questions on the film (above)

• Teams 3 and 4:

• $100 laptop too expensive?

• Teams 5 and 6:

• Too much for 3rd world countries?

• Teams 7 and 8:

• Criticism of OLPC Project

• Teams 9 and 10:

• Indian Minister's criticism Klick "Next" at end of article to read part2!

• Teams 11 and 12:

• NYTimes on schools stopping laptop program-1 Just do this page!

• Teams 13 and 14:

• NYTimes on schools stopping laptop program-2 Just do this page!

Questions on working with a laptop at school:

1. Would you like to have a laptop for yourself in class and at home? Say why (not)!
2. What do you think would be the best way to use it at/for school? Think of different subjects!
3. Do you think a laptop can help you to learn better / more effectively / faster ...? How would this work?
4. What disadvantages/problems do you see in working with your personal laptop at and for school?

• Work in teams of two!
• Write your answers to questions 1-4 down into this wiki in your team's blog!

blog team 01	blog team 02	blog team 03	blog team 04	blog team 05	Theresa & Sandra	blogteam 07
blog team 08	blog team 09	blog team 10	blog team 11	Anka and Eva	blog team 13	blog team 14

Test Critera for a laptop at school:

Design/Durability/Usage/Limitations of Hardware:

• Powering up ....
• Typing
• Screen
• Battery + Charging
• Touchpad
• Lid
• Readability of internetpages
• "droptest"

Use in Classroom - Transport in school

• service

Working together - exchanging results/data ....

Opportunities/requirements/Limitations of Software:

• freesoftware

• How to stop distraction/abuse ....
• How to protect data and installation

Price/Availability?

The Hobbit

• It's over ... we've finished it, and thanks to all those who have participated so well. To all the others .... well, I don't care.
• If you want to see the project and results .... Klick here!

Looking at Narrative Texts

Setting

Basically the setting of a novel/story is the time, place and background that the narrator creates. The setting influences the readers' expectations, especially at the beginning of novels / chapters, and it helps to create a certain atmosphere (adjectives, characters, symbols, connotations of words that are used also contribute to atmosphere)

Characterization

Vocabulary and How-to ....

• Vocabulary for characterization: Physical features
• How to write a characterization

Flat vs. round characters

E.M. Forster. Aspects of the Novel, Harmondsworth 1976 (11927), pp. 72 and 80

"We may divide characters into flat and round. Flat characters … are sometimes called types, and sometimes caricatures. In their purest form, they are constructed round a single idea or quality: when there is more than one factor in them, we get the beginning of the curve towards the round. The real flat character can be expressed in one sentence …. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. "

This clearly shows the differences between

Flat Character:

• lack of a realistic personality
• description might be detailed, but reveals no complex personality
• "flat" is not negative, but simply says the character can be summed up in one sentence
• shows little or no development.

Round character:

• complex and realistic
• represents a fully developed, complex personality
• often shows good and bad traits, interior conflicts, may react unexpectedly
• usually true for main characters
• clear development throughout the story

To do list 11c 08/09: What is English good for?

The pupils collected the following list:

What will you need or would you like to use your English for after and outside school?

• English in everyday (German) language
• for travelling
• in the internet
• on the job / for my application
• necessary to speak it because it’s the world language.
• communication/understanding between cultures.
• movies/books in English.

What should you know / learn to do in English for the English Grundkurs, LK or Abitur in the next two years?

• vocabulary
• grammar
• text comprehension
• writing compositions / answer
• give talks / speak freely
• think in/ be fluent in English

Mr. T came up with these lists .... rather similar!

Programme English: 11c – 2009

1. What we will have to do … </span>

a) … for the Lk/Gk and the Abitur:

• reading, understanding texts (fictional done and non-fictional)
• describing and analyzing cartoons done
• working with a dictionary at it!
• characterization done
• building up topical vocabulary + techniques at it!
• writing comments (paragraph, introduction, argument) at it ...!
• explaining effect of rhetorical devices, point of view, plot done!
• translating (general skills, special difficulties)at it!
• presenting a short speech/talk in front of class done
• listening comprehension

b) … due to the curriculum

• read a complete novel done + a short story
• read some poems
• analyze some adverts

c) … due to school regulations:

• 1 x fictional text → novel "The Hobbit" done
• 1 x Test: translation E → G)

Possible Novels:

• Tolkien: The Hobbit done
• Hornby: About a boy
• McCourt: Angela's Ashes
• Orwell: 1984
• Golding: Lord of the Flies
• Lodge: Changing Places
• Haddon: The curious incident of the dog in the night
• Sachaar: Holes

US Politics

• Vocabulary MindMap "US-Politics

• Searching the internet
• Who votes for Obama and McCain
• Campaign 2008 in Cartoons - Now with vocabulary MindMap!
• The role of the media in the presidential campaign
• Lobbyism

Speeches

• Mindmap "A good speech"

Conditional Clauses

• Conditional - Information and Exercises I
• Conditional - Information and Exercises II