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Class teachers need to ask themselves whether they will use Information and Communications Technology to make themselves more knowledgeable or their students more 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?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4285762190/in/pool-858082@N25
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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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