Primary School learners in Finlad

I recently found an interesting article. It was about primary school learners in Finland who studied wild courtyard plants. The topic of the project was “the influence of growth factors for courtyard plants”. The 10-lesson project was coordinated, documented and shared using a Web-based teamwork environment. The goal of the project was,to introduce “progressive inquiry”. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?Progressive inquiry). A web-based learning environment – “FRONTER” http://com.fronter.info was used for this purpose. So learners were sharing and commenting (in groups)online on ideas and explanations. Learners (9 and 10 years olds) were actually communicating and sharing their results with other learners in other crounties. I find this fascinating!!