2013 - July 30th

It’s the news of the 2013… after two years of traditional classes, this May we start using a little computer lab, a Language Lab.

With the three new computers gave by “Andrea Cappannoli”, this year, the language school has a new and very important tool, a Laboratory!!

This season we have seven laptop computer, 3 of them are personal, but four are permanent property of the school. Using the all seven mobiles we have, for now, classes of 14 students for any level. We mean also to allow the English and French teachers of the middle school to use the lab all around the year as support for their courses…  

The software installed is intuitive and interactive, and it’s not using any intermediate language… it means there isn’t any translation, but only a full immersion in the language you are learning. The method is the same used for mother tongue… just adsorbing.

A Computer Lab has multiple meaning for our school…

·      As a linguistic support:

-       Because it avoid the passive attitude of some student in the traditional courses

-       It helps in listening and comprehension, especially in a place like this where is not easy to find a mother tongue teacher that can follow the students for the whole academic year.

·      As a computer class:

-       It is useful to make the students better understanding the computer and the Operative System… and become confident with the keyboard, mouse, and touchpad.

It’s also important for the students that had followed the OLPC France Project at the Elementary School… using the little XO computer. The Lab give them the opportunity to upgrade their knowledge to a real computer.