Why eTwinning was not invented 100 years ago?
Leszek Rudak
University of Warsaw
WHY?
WHAT IS eTwinning?
eTwinning offers a platform for staff (teachers, head teachers, librarians, etc.), working in a school in one of the European countries involved, to communicate, collaborate, develop projects, share and, in short, feel and be part of the most exciting learning community in Europe.
www.etwinning.net
eTwinning offers the free and safe platform for teachers to connect, develop collaborative projects and share ideas in Europe
www.etwinning.net
eTwinning offers the free and safe platform for teachers to connect, develop collaborative projects and share ideas in Europe
www.etwinning.net
100 years ago there was no such platforms
…so, obviously, there was no eTwinning!
…so, obviously, there was no eTwinning!
WHAT DOES it MEAN:
OBVIOUS?
An elefant has four legs.
http://patrz.pl/zdjecie,zludzenie-optyczne-slon,5895.html
2 ⋅ 2 = 4
2⋅2 = {Ø, {Ø}} ⋅ {Ø, {Ø}} = {Ø, {Ø}} ⋅ {Ø} + {Ø, {Ø}} = {Ø, {Ø}} + {Ø, {Ø}} = ({Ø, {Ø}} + {Ø})´ = (({Ø, {Ø}} + Ø)´)´ = (({Ø, {Ø}})´)´ = ({Ø, {Ø}} ∪ {{Ø, {Ø}}})´ = ({Ø, {Ø}, {Ø, {Ø}}})´ = {Ø, {Ø}, {Ø, {Ø}}} ∪ {{Ø, {Ø}, {Ø, {Ø}}}} = {Ø, {Ø}, {Ø, {Ø}}, {Ø, {Ø}, {Ø, {Ø}}}} = 4
100 years ago there was no such platforms
platforms to connect collaborate share
platforms for communication
100 years ago there was no such platforms
REALLY?
what about messengers?
http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_3.htm
uncomfortable?
March 20, 1728 The Boston Gazette
Caleb Philipps, Teacher of the New
Method of Short Hand [announces that]
Persons in the Country desirous to Learn
this Art, may by having several Lessons
sent Weekly to them, be as perfectly
instructed as those that live in Boston.
Caleb Philipps, Teacher of the New
Method of Short Hand [announces that]
Persons in the Country desirous to Learn
this Art, may by having several Lessons
sent Weekly to them, be as perfectly
instructed as those that live in Boston.
1840 Roland Hill’s Postal Reform
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Penny_black.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Penny_black.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bordeaux_Cover.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Bordeaux_Cover.jpg
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Znaczek_Fi_1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Znaczek_Fi_1.jpg
there was not eTwinning yet...
July 27, 1896 London Guglielmo Marconi
By Cardiff Council Flat Holm Project - Cardiff Council Flat Holm Project, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4012156
moreover…
http://www.fotosik.pl/pokaz_obrazek/e551506a0b3c7865.html
http://www.fotosik.pl/pokaz_obrazek/e551506a0b3c7865.html
http://zsah.blox.pl/html/1310721,21.html?454984
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82a_(telewizor)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pl/0/0b/Wisla_telewizor_1.jpg
AND…
still there was not eTwinning…
WHY?
because there where no tools for real interaction
http://www.family-flix.com
http://www.family-flix.com
September 29, 1969 ARPANET
1983 Ian Postel TCP/IP and DNS
1989 ARPANET decommissioned
1990 Tim Berners-Lee WWW i HTML
http://leavcom.com/wordpress/?p=173
INTERNET
INTERNET
letter faster
INTERNET
letter faster
radio/TV
INTERNET
letter faster
radio/TV two-way
INTERNET
letter faster
radio/TV two-way
phone
INTERNET
letter faster
radio/TV two-way
phone delayed
There was no Interent 100 years ago…
Is it the full answer?
THERE IS SOMETHING
MORE
WHAT IS LEARNING?
Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning
HOW DOES IT WORK?
EXAMPLE
CHAIR
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
same-meble.eu
meblohurt.pl
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
CHAIR
nokaut.pl
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
CHAIR
krzeslo-do-poczekalni.adverti.com.pl
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
CHAIR
top10tastes.com
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
CHAIR
concepts form patterns in the brain
http://www.amegaglobalhealth.com/tapping-the-power-of-the-mind
Long-Term Potentiation persistent strengthening of synapses based on recent patterns of activity.
http://bioinfo.mol.uj.edu.pl/articles/Celejewska05
zsah.blox.pl
WHAT IS IT?
zsah.blox.pl
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
CHAIR?
zsah.blox.pl
CHAIR!
four legs flat seat backrest hard seat made of wood
LEARNING =
PATTERNS CONSTRUCTION
http://www.frazpc.pl/b/192438
http://www.songwriterumbrella.com/feelings-and-emotions/
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
http://hylostet.pl/igm/article/77/
Positron Emission Tomography
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n01/pet/pet_hist.htm
MRI was invented in 1971
Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The first application of PET where reported in 1975
100 years ago there was not possibility to know how we learn…
100 years ago there was’nt also…
1913 http://neptun-gdansk.w.interia.pl/k_wojsk.html
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/image/plaster-first-aid-sick-cross
1920
1957 http://wynalazki.slomniki.pl/index.php/o-joomla/48-f/1174-folia-bąbelkowa.html
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Educational-Psychology-LS-Vygotskii/y
1926
https://revdolphin.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/thought-and-language-vygotsky-1962.jpg
1934
1977 http://www.amazon.com/Social-Learning-Theory-Albert-Bandura/dp/0138167443
http://www.dzieci.pl/
http://www.verbaltovisual.com/visualizing-the-zone-of-proximal-development-vtv007/
Through others we become ourselves.
Lev Vygotsky
http://www.trip-to-china.com/
http://guides.ucclibrary.com/content.php?pid=542575
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison proceses.
Albert Bandura
http://www.xlecie.esn.pl/lekcja-europejska-z-erasmusem-z-niemiec-mike-szko%C5%82-podstawowa-nr-10-w-poznaniu
100 years ago there was not theory of social learning…
so… 100 years ago there was no…
http://pl.123rf.com/photo_5240811_strony-liczac--jedna-z-dziewczynek-kciuk-w-gore-strony.html
knowledge on learning processes…
http://pl.123rf.com/photo_5240809_strony-liczac--dwa-palce-do-dziewczat-strony.html
awareness that development needs others…
http://pl.123rf.com/photo_5240806_strony-liczac--trzy-palce-z-dziewczat-strony.html
fast, two-way communication medium…
Could eTwinning be invented before all the stuff?
platform to connect collaborate share
Could eTwinning be invented 100 years ago?
The answer is obvious!
The answer is obvious!
;-)
THANK YOU
Leszek Rudak University of Warsaw