ESchooling a critique of ICT policy and practice'

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Approval (school)
Professional Development Workshop
Approval (National Support Service)
Camp (eTwinning -)
Central Support Service (CSS)
eTwinning 
Chat
Competition (eTwinning -)
Desktop (eTwinning -)
eLearning programme 
eTwinner 
eTwins
Finding a partner
Duan Meko
Founder schools
Bratislava, May 10, 2007
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"Everything that can be invented has been
invented."     Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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21st Century Chalenge

• The world is more complex the stakes are higher
  more responsibility is focused to the individual.
• Every student today will be competing in the new
  global knowledge society and economy.
• The extent of our competition is changing.
• The nature of work is changing.
• The requirements of the workforce are changing
  employers need workers with mastery of the
  basics.

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Slovakia eTwinning
What kind of projects are Slovakian schools most
often interested in? I would say that most of
the projects aim to gain knowledge about the
lives of students in a partner country, to
exchange information about culture, cities,
environment, history, customs, school life,
hobbies and future plans. Many projects combine
these interests with foreign language learning.
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We All Know The Numbers

• The Web doubles every 60-65 days
• Internet usage is increasing at the rate of about
  140 persons a minute - almost 72 million a year
• 3.6 mld. txt messages a month/2006

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But what... is it good for ?     An engineer
at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of
IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968
David Packard and Bill Hewlett in their Palo
Alto, California Garage, 1939
The Complex Number Calculator, 1940
http//www.computerhistory.org/
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Rate of Technology Adoption
Years To Reach 50 Million Subscribers
Radio 38 Years Television 18 Years
Cable 12 Years Web 5 Years Mobile
Phone 2 Years
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There is no reason anyone would want a computer
in their home."     Ken Olson, president/founder
of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
CDC 7600 Typical wiring in an early mainframe
computer
http//www.computersciencelab.com
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One of the four paper tape readers on the Harvard
Mark I
I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers."     Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,
1943
http//www.computerhistory.org/
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A typical computer operation back when computers
were people.
1943, ENIAC filled a 20 by 40 foot room, weighed
30 tons, and used more than 18,000 vacuum tubes,
each generated waste heat like a light bulb and
all this heat (174,000 watts of heat).
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with
18 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers
of the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes
and perhaps weigh 1½ tons." Popular Mechanics,
March 1949
http//www.computerhistory.org/
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21st Century Education Reality
UCET Conference 2005
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Napier's invention led directly to the slide
rule, first built in England in 1632 and still in
use in the 1960's by the NASA engineers of the
Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs which landed
men on the moon.
http//www.computerhistory.org/
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ICT and social exclusionHaves Have-nots
young male wealthy southern urban well-educated
technology science-oriented
elderly female low-income unemployed living in
remote areas non-academic humanities-oriented
UCET Conference 2005
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1944, IBM, Mark I. The machine weighed 5 tons,
incorporated 500 miles of wire, was 8 feet tall
and 51 feet long, and had a 50 ft rotating shaft
running its length, turned by a 5 horsepower
electric motor.
http//www.computerhistory.org/
iPhone
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What New Skills?
OLD SOCIETY/ECONOMY NEW SOCIETY/ECONOMY Labour
vs. Management Co-operation/Collaboration Status
Quo Dynamic Rapid Change National Global
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Why 21st Century Skills?
20th Century
21st Century
1 2 Jobs
10 15 Jobs
Number of Jobs
Flexibility And Adaptability
Mastery of One Field
Job Requirement
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Subject Matter Mastery
Teaching Model
Subject Matter Mastery
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Assessment Model
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Doug Levin
Barbara Stein, 2007
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Quo vadis ICT versus people physical motion?
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• Collaborative work
• Virtual communities
• communication
• collaboration
• collective learning
• collective competencies
• collective memory
• collective intelligence

B. Cornu, INRP
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• Education in a networked society
• We need to take into account
• new knowledge
• access to knowledge
• communication in a network
• new teaching/learning
• new tools, resources, pedagogies
• new space/time
• new teaching profession preparation

B. Cornu, INRP
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The international dimension in education has
never been more important.
Students need  first-class skills in order to
compete in a global, knowledge-based economy.
eTwinning projects can help achieve this
by sharing and exchanging best practice with
partners in Europe and beyond.
Why build an international dimension into
coursework? We need to prepare all students
for working in the EU and around the world, as
well as at home.
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Learning Futures
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• iPhone combines three amazing products
• - a revolutionary mobile phone,
• a widescreen iPod with touch controls,
• a breakthrough Internet communications device
  with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and
  searching - into one small and lightweight
  handheld device.

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of
communication."     Western Union internal memo,
1876.
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FUTURE EDUCATION is to be found on making
learning happen within activity rich and
culturally rich social environments that never
existed.
problem solving
debates
learning by teaching
directed dialogues
learning by reflection
simulations
question posing
action learning
learning by doing
project based learning
situated learning
socratic dialogues
story telling
projects
case studies
panel discussions
incidental learning
learning from mistakes
role playing
small group discussions
story listening
Technology allows for different educational
paradigms
(Empowering Schools, 2004)
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Thank you for your attention.
I wish you a most fruitful days of interesting
and stimulating discussions and sharing of
knowledge.
Contact dusan.mesko_at_minedu.sk