Computers in Education

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Computers in Education

• The role of ICTs in Meaningful Education. Week 2

Semester 1, 2005
Ruth Geer Alan Barnes
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Learning

• How do you learn best?
• How might technology help you learn?

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School Change

• many demands on schools
• lifelong learning
• changing roles for teachers and students
• demands from the knowledge society
• change because of ICTs

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National Agenda

• knowledge society
• information economy
• life long learning
• globalisation.

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Strategic Framework for the Information Economy 6

• education and training is a crucial underpinning
  to Australias success in the information
  economy. Our education and training systems must
  equip all Australians to be enterprising,
  innovative, adaptable and socially responsible
  participants in the information economy.

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Learning for the Knowledge Society An Education
and Training Action Plan for the Information
Economy.

• 1. All students will leave school as confident,
  creative and productive users of new
  technologies, including information and
  communication technologies, and understand the
  impact of those technologies on society
• 2. All schools will seek to integrate information
  and communication technologies into their
  operations, to improve student learning, to offer
  flexible learning opportunities and to improve
  the efficiency of their business practices.

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The new and the old

• student role - active
• Curriculum - meaningful
• Social - cooperative
• Assessment deeper level of understanding
• teacher role facilitator, cognitive
  apprenticeship
• technology use primary source, communication,
  exploratory, discovery

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Standards and ICT Usage

• why standards?
• industry, competence, moving on
• what standards?
• basics, operations, office applications,
  learning technologies(?)
• whose standards?
• the Ed. Dept., the professional association, the
  ACS
• how to assess standards?
• implicit, explicit, performance

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Theories

• Behavioral theories
• Theorists - Skinner, Thorndike, Gagne
• - observable indications of learning
• - sequence of stimulus - response actions
• Information processing theories
• Theorists - Atkinson, Ausubel, Gagne ( guided
  development of Artificial Intelligence)
• - model of memory
• - receive and store information

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Information Processing theories
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Mental activities

• Short term memory
• Long term memory
• Episodic memory
• Declarative knowledge
• Procedural knowledge
• Metacognitive knowledge

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Integration into the classroom

• Type A encouraging the acquisition of ICT skills
• Type B using ICTs to enhance student abilities
  within existing curriculum
• Type C ICTs as an integral component of broader
  curriculum reforms
• Type D introducing ICTs as an integral component
  of the reforms
• http//www.dest.gov.au/schools/publications/2002/M
  BC.pdf

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References

• EdNA Schools Advisory Group (2000) " Learning in
  an online world School Education Action Plan for
  the Information Economy". Available at
  http//www.dest.gov.au/schools/publications/2000/l
  earning.htm Accessed February 2004.
• DETYA (2000) Learning for the Knowledge Society
  An Education and Training Action Plan for the
  Information Economy. Canberra Available at
  http//www.dest.gov.au/schools/publications/2000/l
  earning.htm Accessed February 2004.
• DEST (2001) Making better connections. Available
  at http//www.dest.gov.au/schools/publications/200
  2/MBC.pdf Accessed August, 2004.
• Chapter 2 of Grabe and Grabe (2004)
  Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learnuing