Intercultural training for migrants and refugees in Denmark

Intercultural training for migrants and refugees in Denmark – with Tele-Leofil uvi*2 Denmark Århus-Sardinia May 2003 1

Contents: n n Presentation of the work on Tele-Leofil in Denmark Pictures Structure and process of the learningscenario in Tele-Leofil Evaluation of the work uvi*2 2003 2

Structure of 2 months collaborative work using Tele-Leofil n n n Presentation – sessions: starting the conferences Intercultural training – sessions: 10 exercises on culture Evaluation – sessions: evaluation of the learning-scenario uvi*2 2003 3

Will and Karen starting the Tele-Leofil conferences… uvi*2 2003 4

Here is the class of refugees (IP 1) Here is Karen (IP 2) Germany uvi*2 2003 5

The computer screen in HUC – Ålborg uvi*2 2003 6

The computer screen in Århus uvi*2 2003 7

Participants in the Tele-Leofilconferences n n n Teachers: Will Sutter, Marianne Niehues, Language Centre Aalborg Class of migrants/refugees in HUC (Education and Training Centre for Innovation and Job-inclusion) Intercultural training: Karen Bjerg Petersen, uvi*2 Aarhus uvi*2 2003 8

The class of migrants and refugees in HUC Men: Habib, Mirwais, Najib, Zakarias, Hafiz: Afghanistan n Women: Farzaneh, Nadia, Najia: Afghanistan Ludmila, Victoria: Russia Ljudmila: Armenia n uvi*2 2003 9

THE CLASS in HUC North Jutland - Denmark uvi*2 2003 10

Habib, Hafiz Mirwais, Najib from Afghanistan uvi*2 2003 11

Zakarias Farzaneh, Najia from Afghanistan uvi*2 2003 12

Ljudmila Ludmila Victoria from Armenia Russia uvi*2 2003 Russia 13

Presentation-sessions: starting to work in Tele-Leofil… Presentation - sessions n n Transfer to HUC of exercise on individual presentation Preparatory work in the class at HUC Aalborg with local teacher (Will) Individual presentation via Tele-Leofil: student and Karen – videoconferencing and application-sharing Purpose of the presentation n n Getting to know each other from a distance First training in use of Tele-Leofil – system: videoconferencing, audio transfer, application-sharing collaboration on the students’ presentations (using facilities in Tele-Leofil) uvi*2 2003 14

Intercultural training sessions n n Transfer of 10 exercises to local teachers Local individual student work on exercises Student group work on intercultural training exercises with local teacher support (Will, Marianne) 2 -3 Tele-Leofil-sessions per week at 3 -4 hours (Karen and different student participants from HUC) uvi*2 2003 15

Evaluation sessions n n n Transfer of evaluation exercise to local teacher (Will) Class discussion with local teacher (Will) Individual evaluation between each student and Karen using Tele-Leofil and application-sharing uvi*2 2003 16

Technical issues - evaluation n Technical issues: n Technical problems can slow down the learning process in Tele-Leofil and influence local class work n n Technical problems in the Tele-Leofil-system were solved with good help from Josef Burgard Using Tele-Leofil videoconferencing and application sharing system demands n good technical IT knowledge from Tele-Leofil – teacher and local teacher to support local students and organize local work on exercises uvi*2 2003 17

Pedagogical issues - evaluation n Pedagogical issues in Tele-Leofil system: n Changes of traditional local ‘teacher role’ n n n Local language teacher gets supplementary functions as an organizer, consultant and IT support person Local class and group work has to be organized to avoid ‘waiting’ More ‘equality’ and ‘personal contact’ between distance teacher and student n n Tele-Leofil conferencing system gives an ‘equal’ connection between individual students and Tele-Leofil-’teacher’ Long term planning of distance learning-sessions necessary uvi*2 2003 18

Training in Tele-Leofil - evaluation Talking together n Seeing each other n Listening to each other n Working together on application-sharing demands natural and equal collaborative working and interaction skills from the communication partners in TELE-LEOFIL. n uvi*2 2003 19

Students’ evaluations n What was the best in Tele-Leofil? ” To speak with Karen and at the same time have the possibility to write together and to get my errors corrected immediately” Mirwais Sakanai, from Afghanistan uvi*2 2003 20

Still working at HUC …. uvi*2 2003 21