– Now everyone must quietly pick up their iPad. Put it with the apple facing up, says teacher Torunn Langfeldt. The pupils in class 2b at Vassbonn school must speak Norwegian and they must use the tablet. Leo Lazreg (6.5) gets help from classmate Hennie Bjørnsen Hærgard (7) to enter a sentence that starts with “I can …”. He types “I can play football” on the tablet. At Vassbonn school, they start with tablets from 1st grade. When the politicians in the municipality wanted to remove tablets from first grade, several teachers, and all the principals in the municipality, refused to accept the plan. Teacher Torunn Langfeldt uses both a blackboard and a screen in her lessons. Photo: Eva Marie Bulai / news The principals sat on the back foot The principal at Vassbonn school, Ellen Aas, is one of those who think removal is a bad idea. – I think that it is the pedagogues who are in the classroom who know best which teaching hits the students, and the iPad is part of the tools they use. I think teaching will be poorer without the iPad, says Aas. Ellen Aas, principal at Vassbonn school, Nordre Follo. Photo: Eva Marie Bulai / news – But what can the students do now that they could not have done without the tablet? – If they had only had a notebook, they could not have read their own text. They also couldn’t practice letters and have the letter sound read out and they couldn’t write words and have the word read out either. She also believes that the iPad makes it easier to differentiate the teaching, so that the students get an adapted plan according to the level they are at. Should first graders use tablets in teaching? yes, the internet is here to stay yes, but they shouldn’t bring their tablets home no, they already have enough screens Show result Election promise: Screen-free in first class The Conservatives in Nordre Follo went to the polls to remove tablets from first class. They have brought with them the cooperation parties Frp, the Center Party and the Pensioners Party, in addition to the MDG. – When the six-year-olds started in first grade, they were supposed to play more than they were supposed to learn. We believed and still believe that the iPad could be an obstacle for that, that there was too little play, and wanted to look at the possibility of taking it away in first class, says Mayor of Nordre Follo, Cecilie Dahl-Jørgensen Pind (H). Cecilie Dahl-Jørgensen Pind, mayor (H) in Nordre Follo. Photo: Eva Marie Bulai / news She has a majority in the municipal council to remove the tablet in the first stage, but when the director of the municipality was to investigate the matter, the politicians received an unexpected answer: The feedback from a group of principals in unison and from teachers in the first stage was that they advised against removing the tablet. The recommendation from the municipal administration was not to remove the tablet from the youngest. The right believed that tablets could steal time from play. Here, children from class 2B at Vassbonn school are outside playing. Photo: Eva Marie Bulai / news But the politicians were not satisfied with the recommendation and sent the case back. Now they have asked to hear more voices, including parents and pupils. – It may seem as if you are not satisfied until you get a recommendation to remove the tablet for the little ones? – No, not really. What we want is a good decision-making basis and we sent the matter back because we want more votes, says the mayor, before adding: – We may turn around. – What did you say? – It may well happen that we turn around, says Pind. Published 28.08.2024, at 06.23
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