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.
