From Knowledgeable To Knowledge-Able

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From knowledgeable to knowledge-able

What role will Information and Communication Technologies play in the classroom?Presented by Derek Moore

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Overview

• What do we know?• What do we think we know?• What are the implications of this knowing for

our practice?

Happy 20th Birthday

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frozen-in-time/2263904827/sizes/l/

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Meet the first web – it’s nearly 20 years oldhttp://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

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What do we know?Discuss with a partner - If you were unable to use the web to connect. – what way would your life be different?

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Horizon Report

Open Content

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Mobile Computing

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Information AgeData rich, digital and networked technologies are changing the way we produce, consume, communicate and think.

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Generation M2

Info Graphic: New York TimesSee GENERATION M2Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds

Children are spending more time behind a screen

• Telephone 89 years Television 38 years

• Cell phone 14 years• iPod 7 years• Facebook 5 years

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/hempel_facebook.fortune/index.htm

Living within a Knowledge societyHow long does it take to reach 150 million users?

“Culture is becoming encoded in digital form”

• Facebook in ZA

“Where their parents see the Internet as a source for gathering information…

…the Net Generation sees the Internet as a place for gathering.”

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What we think we knowDiscuss – Is this constant access to data and information reformatting our brains?

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Externalising our Knowledge?http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Making us more Knowledgeable?

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Digital Natives / Digital Immigrants

• Is there is a difference between those born before the home PC was introduced and those who do not know of a life without screen media?

Marc Perensky

Digital Natives

• Used to receiving information fast

• Like to parallel process and multi task

• Visually orientated• Prefer random access to linear• Instant gratification• Ubiquitous access to

communications technologies

http://www.twitchspeed.com/site/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.htm

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Digital Natives• Multiple TV channels• Never owned a record player, tape recorder• Grown up with computers• Food gets defrosted in the microwave• The internet has always been available• They e-mail, SMS, Instant Message or Skype their friends• Cell Phones contain important memories• Engage in virtual worlds • Listen to music on Digital Music Players (and don’t buy

CDs)

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Just a metaphor

• Not all youth are born digital• Generational profiling excludes those who are

not socially or financially privileged • Generational differences do exist – but they are

not that simplistic• Youth that immersed in technology might master

to the tools quicker. But mastery is not necessarily linked to age (look at the masters of digital technology in silicon valley)

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What are the implications of this knowing for your teaching?

Discuss – How will ICT affect your classroom teaching?

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Transmission vs Discourse

• Transmission– Teachers as experts– Textbooks source – Think - Do - Think

• Discourse– Teachers as Coach– Websites are HUBs– Do - Think – Do

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Technological determinism

• “..Emerging information technologies revolutionize education and improve it dramatically...”

– technology is always a product of society, and therefore technology is never autonomous

Joseph Goguen

Educational Experience

Teacher Presence

Social Presence

Cognitive Presence

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Traditional Teaching…

• In a world where any knowledge is at your finger tips, is multiple choice really the way to be teaching kids about how to search and how to evaluate what you find?

• Cathy Davidson

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Lets rephrase the questionWhat way has Information and Communication Technologies transformed your life, your thinking and your classroom?

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More knowledgeable

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More knowledge - able

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Personal Learning Network

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Credits

• Frand, J. (2000) The Information Age Mindset http://educause.edu/apps/er/erm00/articles005/erm0051.pdf

• Generation M2 (2010) http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/mh012010presentL.pdf

• Horizon Report (2010) http://www.nmc.org/publications/2010-horizon-report

• Lewan T, (2010) New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/education/20wired.html