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Project Description CyBergen will be a world for the study of virtual learning activities for children in the age of 6 to 15. It will be a platform for experiments about teaching children by the use of virtual tools and to observe how the children use this kind of communication with each others. Mediesenteret, located in Bergen, Norway creates CyBergen. Mediesenteret is a department at Bergen College where we work in close connection to the teacher-training department. Mediesenteret produce Internet solutions and CD-ROM's and educate students in the use of multimedia tools. In CyBergen our aims are to create building elements and frameworks, for schools in the city of Bergen. Teachers and pupils will then continue to construct the buildings and create different learning activities. So far, we have planned an area for pupils in the age 7 to 15 years and another area for small children, aged 4 to 6. We will also use CyBergen for international projects we are involved in. One of the projects is between two schools in Bergen, two in London and two in Groningen, Netherlands and we will see how children from different countries can use AWEDU in their communication. There will be some problems with the language, but perhaps the "body language" in AWEDU activities can compensate this? For our studies with small children, we believe that it will be important to do some "homework" before we introduce the participants to AWEDU. We will create some examples for activities and tasks the pupils should solve within CyBergen, also including other worlds in AWEDU and the activities should be solved within a limited time schedule. | ||
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