HOW COME WE DO NOT TRAIN TEACHERS TO APPLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ?

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HOW COMEWE DO NOT TRAIN TEACHERS TO APPLY
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ?
Almost 2000 Crises and Challenges in Teacher
Education

• Prof. Yehoshafat Giveon
• The Center for Informatics The School of
  Education
• Beit Berl College, Israel

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Information Technology AND Teacher Education ?

• Teacher Education - in general - does not
  provide training in information technology,
• simply, because most people who are involved
  with Teacher Education,
• do not know what it is.

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Information Technology AND Teacher Education ?

• In Teacher Education, and in Education in
  general,

the words,
technology and information technology refer
mostly to

the technical details of modern hi-tech
instruments and tools.
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Consequently,

• Teacher Training in Information Technology means
  - in general - the provision of the technical
  details of how to use these tools AND then, going
  into the didactical aspects of how to use these
  tools in learning environments.

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But what is TECHNOLOGY?

• the practical application of knowledge
  especially in a particular area Merriam Webster
  WWWebster Dictionary
• the branch of knowledge that deals with
  industrial arts, applied science, engineering
  the application of knowledge for practical
  ends.. The Random House Dictionary of the
  English Language - College Edition
• From Greek technologia systematic treatment

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And so, what is TECHNOLOGY?

• FIRST OF ALL,
  IT IS A CERTAIN TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE !!
• It is a knowledge organized for the purpose of
  practical applications.

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How can IT and ED be related?
Knowledge?
Tools ?
?
Education
Informatics
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How can it be done, in general?
In order for physics to be useful to other
sciences in a theoretical way, other than in the
invention of instruments, the science in question
must supply to the physicist a description of the
object in a physicists language. R. P. Feynman,
in Six Easy Pieces, Addison-Wesley, 1963
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How can IT and ED be related?

• Feynmans requirement

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Education
Informatics
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How can IT and ED be related?

• Translating Feynmans requirement
• If we want IT to be of use in ED, we must be
  able to describe ED objects in terms of IT !!!

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How can IT and ED be related?
Education
Informatics
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IT and ED can be related
Informatics in Education
Education (processes)
Informatics (processes)
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A Useful Starting Point

• Reading and Writing are the first examples of
  Information Technology.
• And lo and behold, they are the principal
  technologies of our post-oral learning
  environments.

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How can IT and ED be related?
Education
Informatics
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How can IT and ED be related?
Basic technologies of Literacy
Information Technologies
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Points of Similarity

• Characters etc. Bits
• Words etc. Strings
• Texts Data systems
• Types of Reading-Writing Processes Types of
  Interactive Use of Data Systems
• Routine and Technical chores Algorithms
• Graphical Organizers Data Types

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Basic Concepts of Informatics in Education

• Characters etc. Bits
• Words etc. Strings
• Texts Data systems
• Types of Reading-Writing Processes Types of
  Interactive Use of Data Systems
• Routine, Technical chores Algorithms
• Graphical Organizers Data Types

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(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
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The Major Task of Informatics in Education

How to Incorporate Software into Educational
Activities ?
Software
Activity
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Informatics in Education

Education
Informatics
(4)
(5)
(1)
(3)
(2)
Software
Activity
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The Major Task of Informatics in Education

How to Incorporate Software into Educational
Activities ?
Software
Activity
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The Major Task of Informatics in Education

How to Incorporate Software into Educational
Activities ?
Software
Activity
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The Major Task of Informatics in Education

How to Incorporate Software into Educational
Activities ?
Activity
Software
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Basic Concepts of Informatics in Education

• Characters etc. Bits
• Words etc. Strings
• Texts Data systems
• Types of Reading-Writing Processes Types of
  Interactive Use of Data Systems
• Routine and Technical chores Algorithms
• Graphical Organizers Data Types

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
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Conditions for a Synergistic Incorporation of
Software into Educational Activities

• Characters etc. Bits
• Words etc. Strings
• Texts Data systems
• Types of Reading-Writing Processes Types of
  Interactive Use of Data Systems
• Routine and Technical chores Algorithms
• Graphical Organizers Data Types

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
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Conditions for a Synergistic Incorporation of
Software into Educational Activities
(1) Start with the actual data occurring in the
activity.
(2) If one wishes to replace a conventional
system by __,a digital one, the following must
hold
(3) The processes must match the original
processes.
(4) The duty of the learner must be preserved.
(5) The data - types and structures - must match.
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A New Literacy

• It is an Information Technology.
• It has several applications.
• It is an extension and an expansion of the Old
  Information Technology.
• And like Old Literacy, it requires armies of
  pioneers, in order to create and bring about the
  New Literacy, and the New Learning Environments.
• It has not been done yet.

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