PPt about knowledge society.

1. DIGITAL COMPETENCE
STRATEGY
PROFESSOR TAPIOVARIS
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, FINLAND
UNESCO CHAIR IN GLOBAL E-LEARNING
WWW.UTA.FI/~TITAVA
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2. CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST
CENTURY
• Digitalization: analog to digital
• Globalization: local to global
• Economic trends: the role of the information and
communication technology
• New literacies and competences
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3. 21ST CENTURY LITERACY IN A
CONVERGENT MEDIA WORLD
• From Information Society to Knowledge Society and
Society of Dreams
• eKnowledge
• Education, e-learning
• Workplace Skills
• New Citizenship and the Role of Civic Engagement
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Re ductio nism
Digital literacy as
operational
knowledge

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A technological process

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Historical, social and cultural
process

7. EDUCATIONAL INVENTIONS
• The phonetic alphabet
• Printing
• Telematics (computers connected to networks)
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A technical change
Computerization and
mediatization
Technical
Semiotic
Ideological
Organized
socialization
dimensions
Programming and
audiovisual languages
Science and
technology
Transnational actors
Visualization and
virtualization
Programmed society
Globalization and
cyberspace
Dimension ProcessObjects
Computers and the
Media

9. DIGITAL LITERACY IS KEY TO:
• Learning to learn
• Learning to work
• Facilitating job opportunities
• Providing each citizen with skills and knowledge to live and
work
• Providing the confident use of new tools for assessing and
using knowledge
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10. T.Varis 2004
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Mental and semiotics change
Linked to alphabetical
signs
Linked to reading and
writing
Communicative textual
competence
Computers and screens
Computer signs and
icons
Basic computer
languages
On-line interactive
media competence
Digital
Competence
Linked to texts
Alphabetical
Competence
Basic
Competence
Basic cognitive
operations
Oral and body expression
Personal and community
media competence
Basic operations and
manipulations
Socio-communicative
textual competence
Global socio-communicative
competence associated to
cyberspace
Basic socio-
communicative
competence

11. BASIC QUESTIONS
• Whose
responsibility
(society, learner?)
• Temporary
telework, virtual
family?
• Educational goals?
• Critical thinking
skill
• Social competence
• Multicultural world
• Basic values
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A sociocultural change
Technical
Semiotic
Ideological
Organized
socialization
Print and books
Alphabetical and
linear writing
Modern thinking and
industrial capitalism
Family, community
and national
Computers and
telematics
Interactive and
hipermedia systems
Post-modernism and
financial capitalism
Global societies and
cyberspace
Dimension
Modern
Societies
Information
Societies

13. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
• Anticipating changes in working life and in industrial
structures
• Incentives for the development of know-how (taxation
practices etc)
• Wide-scale cooperation
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14. EWORLD
• “On-line” civil
society, net groups
• Local contents
• ICT in everyday life,
work
• ICT as employer
• B2C e-commerce
• B2B e-commerce
• e-governance
• B2E employees
• Legislation, ethics
• New pedagogy
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15. 21ST CENTURY LITERACY SUMMIT
BERLIN, 7-8 MARCH 2002
• technology literacy
• information literacy, contextual literacy
• global literacy
• media creativity
• social competence and responsibility
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16. ELEARNING COMPETENCIES
• What knowledge and
skills will enable
people to do human
resource
development work?
• General
competencies
• Management
competencies
• Distribution method
competencies
• Presentation method
competencies
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17. CRITICAL THINKING AND SOCIAL
COMPETENCE
• Alvin Toffler (2000): need for critical thinking to
what people see in television or read in
newspapers to question the so called ”truths”
• Social geography (social competence)
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