Are you a teacher? Do you live in Sweden? We now offer a course on how to use Gapminder materials in the classroom. The course will be in Swedish, takes place in Stockholm on 15-16 of June and the prize is 2800 SEK + sales tax. If more than one teacher come from the same school, we give a 15% discount on the prize.
If you are a teacher who don’t speak Swedish, or for other reasons cannot participate, we are still interested to hear your suggestions for how we can improve the online resources for teachers on the website. You can contact Klara Johansson if you have some valuable suggestions.
Är du lärare på högstadium, gymnasium eller vuxenutbildning? Vill du lära dig hur man kan använda Gapminder i undervisningen?
Tillsammans med KI Education erbjuder vi den 15-16 juni i Stockholm en tvådagars fortbildning i att använda och undervisa med Gapminder-material.
Målsättning är att deltagarna ska få den kunskap och det praktiska datorkunnande som behövs för att undervisa om global hälsa, miljö, utveckling och andra frågor med hjälp av animerad statistik och annat material från Gapminder.
Kursavgiften är 2 800 :- plus moms.
Obs! Om en skola anmäler mer än en lärare, ges 15% rabatt på kursavgiften.
Läs mer om utbildningen här.
Anmäl dig på KI Educations hemsida här.
Fantastisk. Håper dette vil spre seg til andre skandinaviske land.
Vi oversetter gjerne programvaren til norsk også.
Teachers from other countries are also most welcome to participate in the course, if they can understand the Swedish language.
/Klara, Gapminder
Is it possible to have a course in English?
And, as I live in Mexico, is it possible to have the course via Internet?
I am very interested in your work and software.
Thank you very much for the information you can send me.
Francisco Morales
Proffessor
Universidad Panamericana
Hi Saw your presentations on TED and your site. Gapminder really brings statistics and data analysis to life. live in the UK work in education and have a Danish wife and two Danish passport carrying daughters it is the nearest to Swedish not much I know but still love the Software! Any chance of English tutorials on the net???
Mike
Dear Francisco,
it is a very interesting suggestion to have a course via Internet. We might consider this for the future. On the website, we are planning to improve our resources for teachers and tips and instructions for how to use Gapminder for teaching.
/Klara
It would be great to have resources for environmental educators and teachers via Internet. We are very iterested. thank you for your wonderful job. Rosita (Environmental education center “energetica” – Italy)
For those who would like basic information about the course but do not understand Swedish, I’ve written a quick translation:
The target audience is high school and community college teachers.
The goal of the course is for participants to gain the knowledge and practical computer know-how needed to teach about world health, the environment, development, and other questions, with help of animated statistics and other material from Gapminder.
The course will be held on 15 and 16 June at Karolinska Institutet in Solna, a suburb just North of Stockholm. The price per student is 2800 SEK, plus 25% sales tax. Including tax, it’s approximately 432 USD per student.
¿Lo pueden traducir al castellano?
El español o castellano es una lengua romance del grupo ibérico. Es uno de los seis idiomas oficiales de la ONU[19] y, tras el chino mandarín, es la lengua más hablada del mundo por el número de hablantes que la tienen como lengua materna.[20] [21] Es también idioma oficial en varias de las principales organizaciones político-económicas internacionales (UE,[22] UA,[23] OEA,[24] OEI,[25] TLCAN[26] UNASUR,[27] CARICOM,[28] y el Tratado Antártico,[29] entre otras). Lo hablan como primera y segunda lengua entre 450[30] y 500[31] millones de personas, pudiendo ser la segunda lengua más hablada considerando los que lo hablan como primera y segunda lengua.[32] Por otro lado, el español es el segundo idioma más estudiado en el mundo[33] tras el inglés, con al menos 17,8 millones de estudiantes,[34] si bien otras fuentes indican que se superan los 46 millones de estudiantes[35] distribuidos en 90 países.
“Google translate” translation: (added by Gapminder)
Can you translate it into Castilian?
The Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language group. It is one of the six official UN languages [19] and, after Mandarin Chinese, is the world’s most spoken language by number of speakers that have as their first language. [20] [21] It is also an official language several major political and economic international organizations (EU, [22] AU, [23] OAS [24] OEI, [25] NAFTA [26] UNASUR, [27] Caribbean [28] and the Antarctic Treaty, [ 29] among others). Speak it as their first language and second between 450 [30] and 500 [31] million, may be the second most spoken language that is spoken by considering the first and second language. [32] On the other hand, Spanish is the second most studied language in the world [33] after the English, with at least 17.8 million students, [34] while other sources indicate that they exceed the 46 million students [35] distributed in 90 countries.
Please describe how to write in Arabic in the program, as the writing in Arabic characters gives an incomprehensible.
Please promptly reply to this question
Ahmed Sakr
Egypt – cairo
Programing in CAPMAS
Mobail 0107002122
Dear Mike and Rosita,
currently, there are two tutorials available (video + pdf) in English that you can access from the menu in Gapminder World http://www.gapminder.org/world . These tutorials are explaining the functions of Gapminder World, rather than giving a tutorial on how to teach with it. However, the pdf tutorial can be very useful to print and keep next to you while you explore the moving graphs. You can of course also view the videos as a kind of tutorial, both on how to use Gapminder materials and on the subject matter.
We plan to add more material to help teachers use Gapminder. Stay tuned.
/Klara
Dear Michael,
thank you for providing a translation! I added some of that information to the blog post.
/Klara