New Media Concepts: Implications for Schools

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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

• New Media Concepts
• The way to improve democracy and development?
• Experiment by the Federal Government bmbwk
• Experiment in computer-mediated communication
  (CMC)

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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

• New Media Concepts - CMC
• Information revolution
• Creates and shares social conventions across
  traditional linguistic and cultural boundaries in
  virtual communities
• Openness of the system means there is little or
  no editorial control

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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

• What is CMC?
• requires users to adapt their social and
  linguistic behaviour to the medium in order to
  engage with other people
• Characteristics of CMC/implications for
  teaching/learning
• Interactivity and huge communicative potential
• Non-linearity of information
• Varied contributions
• Multimodality

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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

• Some advantages of CMC
• (Chat, debates via forums)
• Adequate time for decision-making
• Opportunity to revise written work
• Opportunity for
• reflection before responding

• Some disadvantages
• of CMC
• Loss of impetus to reply
• Techno-stress
• Flaming
• Less or bad reading

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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools
The challenge of CMC for the development of the
school landscape in Austria?
www.klassezukunft.at
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The important question was not simply about
changes in curricula but changes in the human
relationships most closely related to learning
relationships between generations in families,
between teachers and learners and relationships
between peers with common interests. (Tapscott,
1998).
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The path towards the knowledge society is linked
to economic and social change which also
represents a great challenge for schools. In
order to safeguard the high quality of education
in Austria, and in order to improve it further in
international comparison, I have created the
project klassezukunft and set up a
Zukunftskommission (Commission for the Future).
klassezukunft offers the framework for a broad
development process in the school and educational
system. School partners and educational experts
will, in regional events, work on quality
development. Independently of that, all
interested parties will be able to make their
suggestions via a virtual platform. I
therefore invite you to make use of the
possibility, and actively join in the discussion
of the further development, quality assurance and
quality improvement in the educational system and
have a say in shaping this process. Elisabeth
Gehrer
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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

• The main idea?
• www.klassezukunft,t offers the framework for a
  broad development process in the school and
  educational system.
• It is an inviting to the public discussion on
  education
• Four main topics
• Quality
• School Partners
• European Educational Prospects
• The suggestions of the Commission for the Future

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Bitte schreiben Sie Ihre Anregungen und
Vorschläge zum Thema in dieses Formular. Sie
haben maximal 1000 Zeichen zur Verfügung.
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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

• Experiences
• At the beginning
• Questions

• We were sceptical and afraid about
  reactions/non-reactions
• Would the Austrians grumble over the activity?
• Would they speak ill of it?
• Appr. 180 contributions
• Mainly teachers/parents are interested in
  Quality
• Less bad reactions

After 3 weeks working in the editorial team
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New Media Concepts Implications for Schools

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