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Integrating the Prerequisite Tree TOC Tool
Through the Ambitious Target Contextinto
Computer and Internet Literacy CoursesIn a
Teachers' College
Zzippi Margalit zzippi_at_macam.ac.il Levinsky
Teacher Training College, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
University, School of Education
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contents

• Introduction
• Research system
• Examples
• How can we achieve an ambitious target through a
  forum in the Internet?
• Results
• Implications
• Further research

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Computers and the Internet
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Course goals
Learning computer and Internet applications
Through a content that is relevant, internal and
has pedagogical implementations
Integrating the content through TOC tools
Mapping and arranging common-sense and intuitive
thinking step by step into a chart
Gaining insights through the new structure of the
thoughts
Implementing the tools in personal life and in
education
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Who? Where? When?

• 12 teacher trainees
• 18 professional teachers
• 3 computer and Internet literacy courses
• Levinsky Teacher Training College, Tel Aviv,
  Israel
• September 1999 to June 2000

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The system
Getting familiar with the Prerequisite Tree
tool, through the ambitious target context by
means of computers and Internet
Applying the tool in students personal lives
Creating examples for applying the tool in
education
Responding to an anonymous, computerized
open-ended questionnaire
Discovering the students attitudes, behaviors
and feelings towards these activities
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My partner me are staying in the USA
communicate letters,phone, e-mail
Can return to his Job in one year
miss family friends
Can be delayed for 3 years
my partners job
next year training
planning a baby
We can try in spite of the difficulties
family in the US will help
getting a job in the US
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Achieving an ambitious targetMy educational
site is working well, there is learning going on
and I am satisfied
Intermediate Goals

• Obstacles
• I cant do it on my own
• I have not decided who is my audience/client
• Im afraid
• I dont know how to do it
• I will be under more criticism

Ask for help
My students
Work on it
Take a course
Check if Im ready for criticism
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Devora The Canaanites have been defeated. The
people of Israel are living in peace, prosperity
and faith.
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Columbus I have found a new passage to India
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Shakespeare Im writing successful plays and
have a theatre of my own
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Gandhi The British conquest has ended. My
country is independent.
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How to achieve an ambitious target through a
forum on the Internet?
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The ambitious target of Moses
I led safely the people of Israel from Egypt to
the Promised Land
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I led safely the people of Israel from Egypt to
the Promised Land
I led safely the people of Israel from Egypt to
the Promised Land
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Advantages of this new communication event

• Team work and knowledge pooling towards a shared
  creation, without the need of appointments
• Flexibility in time - no need to make a
  synchronous appointment
• Intuitive thoughts are written with no pressure,
  no limits of time, and therefore are deeper and
  more meaningful
• Ideas are written on the screen, and therefore
  are permanent, visible, articulated and explicit
  (Vygotsky 1978).
• Clear tree outline of the procedure is created
• Whole procedure is to a protocol and can be
  reviewed
• Material can be used in any computerized
  application for rewriting and summarizing

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The questionnaire
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My Reference to the tool achieving an ambitious
target

• I think that the tool Achieving an Ambitious
  Target ..
• I feel that the tool Achieving an Ambitious
  Target ..
• I am using the tool Achieving an Ambitious
  Target ..
• The integration of computer with the tool
  Achieving an Ambitious Target ..
• I would like..
• I would suggest.

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Some of students reactions
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I think that the tool Achieving an Ambitious
Target ..
Is a good tool to work with children because
they can separate between the target and the
solutions Made the complicated things look
simple and organized in my head Can help me
both as a teacher and in my private
life Contributed a lot to me and elevated my
expectations
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I feel that the tool Achieving an Ambitious
Target ..
Is very contributing, because I found out many
new private targets, I really didnt know that
Im so ambitious. Is still new to me can
help in some way, by organizing thoughts, but not
everyone can express himself easily made it
very easy for me to learn the computer can help
us get over obstacles in life but is a very good
tool for solving children's private and social
problems
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The results indicate that the activities
mentioned should be included in the curriculum of
teachers education programs
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• Further research suggestions
• Focus on other TOC tools
• The Evaporating Cloud- to identify, construct
  and solve conflicts
• The Current reality tree- to illustrate the
  relationships
• between the core conflict and the more apparent
  problems
• The Six Phases of Resistance to Change tool

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The conflict Shall we stay with the familiar
and known, or leave Egypt towards the promised
land?
Shall we go to the unknown desert of computers,
internet, TOC and other tools, where we need
special survival equipment?
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Thank you!
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