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- Meeting of EUN Virtual School, Stockholm, February 1999 Visions about Internet and Education Johan Groth <johan.groth@gogab.se> The National Agency for Education and Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
- What is Internet?
- A network of computer networks
- A set of communication protocols
- The one and only IT infrastructure
- Why will Internet be The network?
- Based on open standards
- Scaleable
- Globally accepted
- Available without major investments
- Growing rapidly
- Cost efficient
- What will we do on Internet?
- Everything!
- Distribute texts, show pictures
- Telephone, TV and radio
- Etc., etc.
- “ All” information exchange and communication will use Internet
- “ Everything” will be connected to Internet
- Possible limitations
- None!
- Moore’s law will continue to hold
- Computer networks will develop even faster
- Addresses will never run out
- Etc., etc.
- What does this mean?
- New ways to communicate
- New ways to exchange information
- Imply changes in how we live, learn and work
- Changes – Information will be digital
- Easy to store and distribute
- Easy to copy without loss of quality
- Easy to present information
- Easy to change format
- Easy to supply meta-information
- Changes – “Everything” will be connected
- Share resources
- Share information
- Work together
- The network is more important than the “computer”
- Changes – Everyone will take part
- Interests more important than ”closeness”
- Changes – Information consumer and producer
- Handle all information types with one tool
- Easy and cheap to create information in any format
- Possible to reach a world wide audience
- No more broadcasting
- Initiative will come from the receiver
- Changes – All information formats are equal
- Primacy of text is removed
- All formats equally easy to handle
- A return to ”pre-printing press times”
- The “best” format can be chosen
- Changes – Information will be concurrent
- Printed = permanent
- Possible to change with time
- Possible to change with user
- Possible to change with user’s needs
- Changes – An invisible development
- Material flows and information are separated
- Services become more important
- Products become ”invisible”
- Companies become ”invisible”
- ” Hard to explain what you are doing”
- How do these changes affect the educational sector?
- New ”doors” will open
- New contacts will be possible
- New information sources will become available
- No common teaching material
- Subjects change and merge
- How do these changes affect the educational sector? (cont.)
- Competition between schools
- Deeper contacts with parents
- Central role for school libraries
- Parallel changes (buildings, pedagogy etc.)
- School will depend on a “critical system”
- Support costs must be handled
- Competing factors Dr. Johan Groth 19 09-11-07 E-mail johan.groth@gogab.se WWW http://www,pi.se/gogab Page
- Speed
- Scalability
- Acceptance
- Internet will be The infrastructure for I & C
- I & C is school’s main business
- Three fundamental questions (Regnér)
- What is the role and goal of school?
- How should it be achieved?
- Where should this take place?
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