Mr or Ms President?

The new year of the Kalajoki Upper Secondary High school International studies course has begun and with it new students with the desire and ability to learn about the world outside of Finland and its importance. The students have come to the class fully prepared, ready and willing to provide their opinions, use their minds and discuss about international issues using English as the primary method of communication.

This year we have a new addition to the course, well 6 of them to start with...this year the students in the course will be able to use the Samsung Galaxy tab as part of their learning process with the power and knowledge of the internet at their fingertips, well except for wikipedia, but that's another story!

The classes have settled down and Darwin would be proud as now the 3 new 1st year classes have really started to get used to the unusual, shall we say "Irish Style" of the course!

Just recently the students researched the good and bad points about Messrs Romney and Obama and the impact of the American election on the world and what these men bring to the international environment in which we all live.

Then the students had the chance to try to be president of a country for a while and outline their own wishes for the prefect place to live. Freedom of Speech, Equal rights for all, high and low tax rates, nuclear power or not the students worked together to provide some thought provoking topics all the time using the tablet computer as their books of knowledge with English as their only means of communicating.