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The eLearner in 2010

Dr. Bálint MAGYAR

The Minister of Education

Hungary

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• Informatics

• Information technology

• Info-specialists

• Rigid, limited knowledge

• Teaching

From Information Technologyto Digital Culture

Digital Literacy

Digital Culture

User skills

Flexible, frontierless

knowledge

Mentoring

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Industrial society Knowledge based society

Instruction in facts,data, rules,

Formation of abilities,competencies

Transfer of closed,definitive “textbookknowledge”

Lifelong learning processsupported by knowledgenetworks

Learning in closedhomogeneousgroups at school

Learning in flexible,heterogeneous groups

“The sage on the stage” “Guide on the side”

Frontal teaching Constructivist education

Paradigm change in Education?

5Bridges Over the Digital Gap

• Longitudinal monitoring studies needed to justify expenses and channel innovation efforts.

• PIRLS Reading Comprehension Study: frequent computer users understand texts better

• IEA-SITES2: low achievers and high poverty students profit most from ICT-supported instruction (Kozma, 2003)

• OECD – Promoting Equity Through ICT project Hungarian Study: closing the social gap – digitally

6Equity and ICT Culture

• Hole in the wall – the Power is with every child

• MIE – minimally invasive education

• Universal access – guarantee against the global

knowledge divide

• Paradigm shift: knowledge asset management

instead of social policy

• Recognition of unrecognised intelligences

7Decreasing Inequality Through ICT-based Education• E-tolerance

• Computer-supported education in kindergartens

• Developing basic skills of Romani (Gypsy) students through ICT in primary schools

• “Digital” secondary grammar school for minorities

8Four Pillars in ICT Necessary for Paradigm Change in Education

• Hardware and Software• Internet Access• Skills and competencies• Content provision

9The Schoolnet Express

Hardware and Software• Tax relief for ICT equipment• Aim: tripling the number of PCs in homes

Internet Access• Aim: Broadband Internet access at schools by 2005

Skills and Competencies• „Provoking” the teachers to use ICT tools

Digital Content Provision• Intellectual infrastructure for paradigm change in

education

4 pillars, 4 programs

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1st Pillar: Hardware and Software

Source: OECD

Number of PC’s in 2002

Hungary 10%

111st Pillar: Hardware and Software

From 2003, 120 % of the minimum wage is tax-deductible for purchase of PCs and accessories for

teacherscollege and university staff memberscollege and university studentsparents of primary, secondary or tertiary level students3 years of tax deduction – practically free ICT products

Tax Relief For PC Purchase

121st Pillar: Hardware and SoftwareICT equipment purchases in the HungarianSchoolnet Express Program

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132nd Pillar: Access

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60%

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Source: OECD

Hungary 16%

Internet users in 2002 (% of population)

142nd Pillar: Access

Hungary EUPercentage of families

16% 40%

Internet use in Hungary and Europe 2002

Computer supply and Internet connectivity at schools in Hungary and the EU

Hungary EU

Computer supply at schools 30 students / PC

9-12 students / PC

Internet connectivity at schools - percentage

100% 100%

Internet connectivity at primary schools 34% 91-100%

Source: Tárki, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Hungary, OECD 2002

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Connected schools by the end of 19982nd Pillar: Access

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Connected schools by the end of 2002 2nd Pillar: Access

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Connected schools by the end of 20052nd Pillar: Access

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Swedish model

0 20 40 60 80 100

blue collarworkers

low salaryemployees

high salaryemployees

entrepreneurs

Home PC Home Internet

Hungarian case

Internet and PC access at home

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

prim ary schoolcerificate

vocational school

secondary vocationalschool

secondary schoolgraduation

college degree

univers ity

2nd Pillar: Access

193rd Pillar: Skills and Competencies

Shift in teaching content: informatics as a profession digital culture

Grades 4-6: digital literacy

Grades 7-9: digital culture, life skills

Provoking the teacher: salary raise, free PC and training must jump in deep water and swim

Teachers as firewalls for change:OECD Study, 2000: only 25-30% of teachers at pioneering ICT schools use computers for teaching regularly

204th Pillar: Content Provision

The Ingenious Textbook Author replaced by

emergent and co-operative knowledge builders

Spontaneous knowledge acquisition through

participation in knowledge building

Connected databases of teaching materials:

„global knowledge” becomes a reality

Get out of the labs and conquer the classrooms!

Digital teaching materials = intellectual

infrastructure for paradigm change in education

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Textbooks CD / DVDInternet content

90% 7% 3%

Division of Teaching Material Market in Hungary 2002

4th Pillar: Content Provision

Digital Knowledge Base

Age of Digital Teaching Aids and Content

Expandable and reusable multimedia tools

ICT solutions help Life Long Learning

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• “Knowledge equals access not possession”

• Sharing EU and state financed educational software and content

• Common core curriculum content

• Network of regional clearinghouses

• A model for monitoring and sharing

• Free access to EU financed content

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