Collaboration between Sintermeerten College and CELSTEC

Sintermeerten College (secondary education) and the Open Universiteit are neighbours. Tuesday 19 Januar 2010 students of Sintermeerten college (5th year) visited the Medialab of CELSTEC. De aim of the meeting was to get to know eachother and to see if a it is possible to let students of Sintermeerten College collaborate with the Medialab team in projects. As a result the students will work with CELSTEC on applications and devices in April this year.

Augmented reality and mobile learning
During the meeting the neighbours informed eachother on the projects they are working on and exchanged ideas on the innovative use of ICT in education. The partners concluded that there is a lot of overlap. Both are working on projects in the field of augmented reality and mobile learning in which the virtual world is added to the real world.

Brainstorm
After the exchange of information and ideas, the students formed smaller groups with the PhD’s of CELSTEC to brainstorm. In a relaxed atmosphere the groups toyed with theoretical descriptions. After half an hour the groups came back with additional ideas for the project. In plenary discussions the ideas were accentuated.

Project week 
In april the students have a project week. In this week they will work with CELSTEC on the development  of an application or device. The result of their work will be tested and used in school by other students and teachers. The following weeks students start to prepare their project work, while keeping in touch with the PhD’s.

You'll find a report on the meeting on the site of Sintermeerten (in Dutch).