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- Use and discover digital technologies
- Apply computational thinking for all subject areas and grade levels
- Create and develop digital products suche as websites, apps, games)
The innovative educational-learning lab for digital education & computational thinking.
The COOL Lab is
- A teaching, learning, creative, and research lab for ALL subject areas
- with different topics to explore at the lab in which,
- depending on personal interests, visitors can take on the role of student, educator, researcher, or developer and
- try out and use the most recent technologies.
COOL stands for...
- COoperative Open Learning
- COmputer(Science)-Supported Open Learning (technologies and computer science concepts to support teaching and learning in all subject areas)
- Cross-Curricular Open and Online Learning as well as
- "Cool" as in motivating, creative, exciting, playful, etc.
Linz School of Education
Address
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz
Location
Science Park 5, 4th Floor
Phone
Project Management & Contact
Univ. Prof. MMag.a Dr. Barbara Sabitzer, opens an external URL in a new window
cool-lab(at)jku.at
We focus on the following topics:
- Plan and implement creating, technology-based lessons
- Learn and apply innovative teaching and learning strategies and tools
- Support learning skills suchs as understanding texts, solving problems, and logical thinking, etc.
- Internships and vocational direction for school students
- Topic pools for pre-academic papers and Matura projects
- School and research projects for and with partner schools
- Spark interest for Natural Sciences, Computer Science and Engineering
- Support young, gifted students
- Strengthen expertise and skills
- Text comprehension and production in various subject areas
- Language(s) in Natural Sciences and Computer Science (such as "formula languages" in mathematics, gender-sensitive use of language in natural sciences, communication between people and computers)
- Learn and apply programming languages and foreign languages
The COOL LAB offers the following programs:
Continual Education for Educators
Programs for Educators in All Subject Areas and Grade Levels
Programs for Students
Programs for Students in All Subject Areas, Particularly Teacher Education and Computer Sciences
