Digital Culture and Educational Practice Networked Knowledge Society KWL Model What do you already KNOW? WHAT do you want to know?

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Networked Networked Knowledge SocietyKnowledge Society

KWL ModelKWL Model

What do you already What do you already KNOWKNOW??

WHATWHAT do you want to know? do you want to know?

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Session 3Session 3 Networked Networked Knowledge Knowledge

SocietySociety

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Session Three Outline

• Recapping past sessions• Knowledge society• Education in a networked society• Schools in networked societies: leadership,

change & good practices• Schools as networked organisations• Schools as learning organisations

BREAK• Group preparation for next week presentations• References

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eRecapping issues from previous

Sessions

1. Social and Cultural Views of ICT• Culture, cultural components and changing

cultures• Technology and the speed of change• Impact of technology on our lives and in

education2. Information economy and the process of

globalisation• Technology transforming society and changing

our daily practices• Technology is ‘non-neutral’• EMB’s Information literacy discussion document

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MITE63051st 4 sessionsOuter Circle

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Inner Circle

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Peer Evaluation

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eWhy do more than 400 million users round the

world connect to the Internet?

The Internet is:

A collection of interconnected networks that link computers world wide

A set of services for communicating, browsing, searching, and creating Dig

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eInformation SocietyKnowledge Society

Is there a difference between an

Information Society and a

Knowledge Society?

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Knowledge Society

Information = facts, comments, opinions, expressed through words, images, sounds... Information can be stored and circulated...

Knowledge = the output of the reconstruction of information by a person, according to his/her history and context. It depends on the person.

Information can be transmitted

Knowledge must be acquired and constructed

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Knowledge Society

• Information society: A society where information is ‘good’ and can be exchanged, bought, sold, stored, transported, processed. A society of the digital divide.

• Knowledge society: A human society, where knowledge should bring justice, solidarity, democracy, peace... A society where knowledge could be a force for changing society. A society which should provide universal and equitable access to information (http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html).

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Knowledge Society

Integrating ICT in order to build the Knowledge Society:

• Learning to knowICT and Knowledge, accessing Knowledge

• Learning to doNew capacities, do through ICT

• Learning to live togetherNew communication, the « e-citizen »

• Learning to be . in the knowledge society; personal development

Cornu, 2005

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Networked Knowledge Society

• ICT changes knowledge itself:Each discipline, its concepts, processes, methods, resources available change

• The Knowledge Society needs new kinds of Knowledge, that cannot be reduced solely to traditional disciplines

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From chain to pyramid to network

Cornu, 2005

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Network:• Nodes (information, people,

knowledge and links)• Complexity (WWW)• Many paths from one node

to another• Interactive, evolutive• Multi-networks• Movement in and across

networks• Changes in hierarchies

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Education in a networked society

• The networked society needs and reinforces a collective intelligence

• Education needs networks of knowledge

• The links: contribute to the elaboration and acquisition of knowledge

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Take into account:

• new knowledge• access to knowledge• communication in a

network• new teaching, new

learning• new tools, new resources,

new pedagogies• new space and time• new teaching profession

Cornu, 2005

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‘The Internet is mainly a tool … more recently … it is used for perfecting our intelligence through cooperation and exchange… The true revolution of the Internet is not at all a revolution of machines, but of communication between human beings…

The Internet enhances our capacity for collective learning and intelligence… Each community realises that it is one of the dimensions of the production of the human sense… The Internet forces us to experiment with new ways of being together… The ethics of collective intelligence, consisting in interlacing different points of view…’ (Levy, 2000, p. 25)

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New competences for Teachers:

– teaching in the knowledge society– teaching in the networked society– developing a collective intelligence

Technology– new pedagogical possibilities– new management of time and space– new knowledge– new networked form of knowledge– new expectations of Society

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ICT confirm the essential and core role of the teacher:

• be the MEDIATOR between knowledge and the student

…the face-to-face relationship between the teacher and the pupil remains essential

• The human dimension of teaching supported and enhanced by technology

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Leading schools into the information age is not simply a process of adding ICT to the curriculum but

one of innovation and change Law 2002

Good Pedagogical

Practices

ChangeManagement

Leadership

Schools in networked societies: leadership, change & good practices

Adapted from Law 2002

See Resources folderfor the full paper

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1. Fundamental changes in teaching and learning

2. Role of teachers and learners

3. Nature of the schools

Critical issues in instituting change and innovation for sustainability

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From: To:

Content Process

Cognitive development Metacognitive, affective development (understanding how best they learn, helpful framework, learn how learn effective)

Learning as an individual enterprise

Learning through collaboration

Learning as reproduction of what is already known

Learning as production of new understandings and solutions

Fundamental changes in teaching and learning


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From: To:

Teachers as authority and custodian of knowledge

Teachers as facilitator and co-learner

Learners as passive recipients of defined knowledge and skills

Knowledge workers actively engaged in learning about and solving personally meaningful problems

Role of teachers and learners


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Nature of the schools

From: To:

Schools as providers of well-defined educational services

Learning organizations engaged in preparing children and youth for life in the 21st century


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eVision

Skills Incentives

Resources Action

PlanCollegiality Change

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Skills Incentives

Resources

Action Plan

CollegialityConfusion

Vision **** Incentives Resource Action plan

CollegialityAnxiety

Vision Skills **** Resource Action plan

CollegialityResistance

Vision Skills Incentives **** Action plan

CollegialityFrustration

Vision Skills Incentives Resource **** CollegialityTreadmill

Vision Skills Incentives Resource Action plan

****Isolation

Newhouse et. al. (2002)

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New

Old

NewOldPractices

Technology

Cultural Change in Teaching and Learning

Continuous change & review

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1. Personal mastery – personal visions & awareness

2. Mental models – to be shared

3. Shared vision –iterative and ongoing

4. Team learning – through ongoing collective enquiry

5. Systems thinking – viewing goals and problems as part of larger whole and not isolated issues

Change described above can only take place if it is led by dynamic and visionary leadership capable of developing and implementing a collective plan to bring about changes in organization culture, belief and practices.

Senge et al. (2000) - 5 principles crucial for schools to become learning organizations

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Networked knowledge society

KWL Model

What have you LEARNT?

Reflections

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Break

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Group Preparation for

next week

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Group AssignmentSome guiding questions

What issue/problem does your group want to address?

What do you hope to find out?

What is the context of the study?

What are some of the readings that inform your study?

How will you go about collecting data?

How will you collate and analyse the data?

How will you present your study?

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Group Assignment

Please upload latest group outline to ILN

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Presentations next week

Write a review of each presentation you hear

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ReferencesCornu, B. (2005). Being a teacher in the knowledge society.

Council of the European Conference on Teacher Training.

Law, N. (2002). Leadership, Change Management and Good Pedagogic Practices. Paper presented at the ACEC Workshop on e-educational leadership, Bangkok, March 2002.

Levy, P. (2000) Collective Intelligence, Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace. New York: Perseus Books Group

Newhouse, P., Trinidad, S., & Clarkson, B. (2002). Framework for implementation of ICT in Schools – Outcomes, guidelines, equipment and processes. Specialist Educational Services: Perth.

Senge, P.et al. (2000) (eds). Schools that Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education. New York: Doubleday.

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Digital Culture and Educational Practice Networked Knowledge Society KWL Model What do you already KNOW? WHAT do you want to know?