Learning platforms, especially personal (individual) learning platforms play a key role with regard to education in a digital world. Saving learning results, supporting cooperation, preparing for lifelong learning – all of these can be organised in an individual learning platform. The Three-lingual International Primary School Magdeburg/ Germany, as the application filing institution, and the Lapunmäen Koula in Konnevesi/ Finland would like to exchange Best Practice experiences in using learning platforms. Another objective is the mutual investigation into the needs and acquired competences regarding the transition from primary to secondary schools (Saxony-Anhalt) and respectively the possibility of using the assessment system (Finland) on individual learning platforms at the end of primary school. A Finnish study group and a German class are meant to act together with the involved educators (teachers and care workers) as multipliers horizontally for parallel classes and vertically for all other classes and educators in both schools. Furthermore, both schools have been named national reference schools in the EU-Project IMAILE and are trend-setters with regard to their technological equipment. The pupils at both schools use their personal electronical devices (laptops, tablets and so on) in regular lessons and both schools are closely supported and accompanied by academic research groups whenever educational, didactical, methodical or technological questions arise.
Target of the project was to find out, wether it's possible and parcticable to implement a digital learning platform into the curriculum of primary school education or not. The "Dreisprachige Internationale Grundschule" (Trilingual International Primary School) has practical experience and advantage of using digital devices in primary school education since over 15 years. Since that there is also an intense collaboration between the university (IT faculty & teachers training) and the school. Practical experiences with digital learning platforms didn't exist before, the DIG has been just part of a previous IMAILE project and is reference school for that. The collaboration school in Konnevesi, Finland is a model project for schools in Finland in 2030 and the finnish ministery for education and schools. They are used to work with the learning platform PEDA-Net. As conclusion of the project, refered to the question of the possibility to use a learning platformin primary school education already, can be answered like below: The result is that digital learning platforms in primary school education can be very useful for the students, if they have experience in working with digital devices already. Furthermore it was shown that a half-open should be prefered compared to a closed platform like PEDA-Net. The children were supposed to work in their different learning platforms for a certain time with the target to introduce the results virtually and in real life to each other. During the exchanges and travels to Magdeburg and Konnevesi, the children had to explore both platforms. They worked together in mixed groups on different tasks in the different learning environments. For the mid- and long-term it's expected that students aswell as teachers accept and transfer the new knowledge into their daily work and get used to the learning platform as just another digital tool to work with. Additionally the university of Magdeburg plans to implement the new experiences into their future teacher trainings. The results were also part of the "Lehrertag" (day for teachers to present new researches) by the university Magdeburg.