Multimedia Scenario in a Primary School-PIER an an Agent of Change

Abstract

This thesis describes an evaluation of the first phase of the PIER approach as it was conducted in a school setting.PIER is learning activity,which uses web-technology for collaborate learning based on four concepts.These concepts are Problem Based Learning (PBL),Experiential Learning,Interactive Multimedia,and Role-playing.The PIER approach has been successfully used in other settings.The aim of my study was to get an understanding of how IT is used in primary education and what can be done to improve that use from an informatics point of view.This method involved both a field study and experiment at a school.In the learning activity,both students and a teacher participated.The PIER approach,which in this thesis dealt with issue of ethics and criticism of sources of information on the Internet,was partly successful.For complete success some critical conditions such as e.g.time,motivation and making the scenario communicable,which demands creativity rather than routine.