eSchool New Technology, New Learning

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eSchool New Technology, New Learning

• Maciej M. Syslo
• Uni Wroclaw, Uni Torun
• syslo_at_ii.uni.wroc.pl

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• Lifelong learning
• Distance education
• e-Learning
• Recently, we run in-service course for teachers
• on distance education (supported by EU)
• using e-learning approach, methodology, tools
• to prepare teachers for LLL

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New Technology

• New technology in education hardware
• laptop, tablet mobile computers, mobile phone
• Interactive White Board
• Voting (testing) system
• Wireless access to the net
• New technology in education software
• CMS Moodle
• LMS Fronter
• e-portfolio personal archives, reflective
  comments
• Access to technology is today not restricted to a
  physical place

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New technology

• Development
• Ratio students/computers ? 1 what next?
• Teachers take part in in-service training on ICT
  in non-informatics subjects? Generally no effect
  in the classroom
• UK, 2005 estimated that more than 50 of what
  students are supposed to learn in schools they
  learn when they are not in school
• digital divide
• in traditional sense
• also between school and non-school (EU)

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eSchool

• Now in schools in Poland
• teachers, students are looking for technology in
  schools hardware, software, Internet are only
  available at special places, like computer labs.
• Our plan is such that
• Technology is available in all the places where
  it is needed for students, teachers, head
  teachers, staff, parents, local authorities.
• Technology here is understood as
• Hardware, software, Internet, communication,
  school and personal resources, data

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eSchool
No corelation between school needs and decisions

• National initiatives by the Ministry of National
  Ed.
• Hardware (comp labs) sent to schools,
• In-service teachers training
• Content provider the same for all schools
• Computers used mainly in computer labs
• eSchool
• Computer and network technology and resources
  available in all place, where needed by students,
  teachers, parents, administrators
• Teachers training integrated with school needs
• Introduction of a platform (Fronter) as a place
  for personal learning and archives of personal
  resources

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New technology in education

• Information Technology (IT) first
• as a subject students learn IT
• then
• IT as education technology supporting other
  subjects and activities
• IT integrated with other subjects and
  disciplines as a part of almost all disciplines
  
• moreover IT stimulates development of other
  disciplines which incorporate changes in IT

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Model for IT (ICT) development

• Dynamic process of incorporating technology into
  education systems. Four stages
• Emerging stage the beginning stage of IT
  development when schools get new technology
  interests in IT
• Applying stage the use of IT in traditional
  settings, curriculum, classes IT is mainly added
  
• Integration stage IT integrated, embedded into
  subjects, activities, related to real world use
• Transformation stage rethinking and renewing
  education and school role and organization
  development of IT professions
• This model is dynamic and applies to each new
  technology

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Applying the model to e-learning a case study

• Four stages with regard to teachers, students and
  schools development
• Emerging stage, our course for teachers, teachers
  as students in distance education using
  e-learning
• Applying stage, teachers use what they have
  learnt with their students this is the emerging
  stage for students
• Integration stage teachers design a course
  integrating traditional approach with e-learning
  tools and methods (blended approach)
• Transformation stage school as an element of LLL
  in the society, applying e-learning in distance
  education

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New technology and New learning

• Old question how to prepare for the future?
  difficult to answer since we do not know the
  future, especialy related to IT, insted
• teach how to learn do not exclude, e-exclude,
  divide and teach how to built ones own learning
  (e-portfolio?), and prepare for
• LLL built a system of learners in addition to
  (or in the place of?) the traditional system

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New informatics and ICT technologies

• Development of ideas how to prepare in new
  information and communication technologies, the
  scope of preparation
• computer literacy basic computer and net skills
  
• fluency with IT additional skills and
  competencies basic informatics ideas and
  intellectual abilities (abstract thinking)
• computational thinking competencies built on
  the power and limits of computing processes
• 3R (reading, writing, arithmetic) IT
• ? 3R computational thinking

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Invitation

• International Conference
• INFORMATICS in SECONDARY SCHOOLSEVOLUTION and
  PERSPECTIVES
• http//www.rsei.uni.torun.pl/issep/
• 1 4 Lipca, 2008 UMK, Torun
• National Conference
• Informatyka w Edukacji (IwE)
• http//www.rsei.umk.pl/iwe/
• 3 6 lipca, 2008 UMK, Torun