1 Use of Computer Lego – Some Projects in Ronneby Martin Johansson People Computers and Work, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Ronneby Mårten Pettersson People Computers and Work, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Ronneby Background People, Computers and Work The People, Computers and Work (PCW) group at the department of Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Ronneby, Sweden are dealing with issues regarding the use of technology in the modern society. The technology in focus is Information Technology. About 120 students (are following) the education program People, Computers and Work and they study courses in, for example, ethnography, object- oriented programming, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Computers and Learning. The aim of the program is to educate the students to be IT- designers, able to take care of, and design for, the needs of the users. During the course Computers and learning (20 Swedish academic points) the students are introduced to learning theories and are given the possibility to apply them in two projects. When we followed the course during the spring of 1997 we read about the programmable brick in the book Constructionism in Practice (Kafai & Resnick, 1996). Inspired by this text, we started to work with the commercial computer lego product called LEGO DACTA. This paper can be seen as a small introduction to and as a summary of our work with computer lego as artifacts for learning. Computerlego in use We start with a short briefing about the projects we have performed to the present day.This will be followed by a more detailed description of each project. • Our initial project, 1997, was in cooperation with an upper secondary school called Wämöskolan. A teacher at the school had been thinking about using some kind of lego in the education of natural science and technology. He was very enthusiastic about our way of thinking about the use of it and he invited us to do the project in the school with the cooperation of some teachers and pupils. • During the spring of 1998, classes for teachers and students at our University were arranged in the use of computer lego and Logo. The classes were performed as part of the course Computers and Learning. The aim for the classes was to let the students and compulsory schoolteachers have a chance to create their own thoughts about the usefulness of computer lego. We served as supervisors for the classes. • During the summer of 1998, courses were arranged at Nya Former (Investigative learning and new forms of school development) in Ronneby, a big project that is a cooperation between the Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development and Ronneby municipality. We worked as supervisors and were responsible for the planning and