Networking learning communities: skills, platforms and contents
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This is a presentation about learning resources and skills in a large sense. "Internet and its different networks as a rich resource that can support and enhance learning and teaching of the future generations."
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- 1. Networking learning communities: skills, platforms and contents Riina Vuorikari Senior Research Analyst European Schoolnet Lisbon December 12 2008
- 2. 2 European Schoolnet (EUN) • 31 Ministries of Education (MoE) in Europe • Created in 1997 • Major European education portals for learning resources, collaboration and skills • Leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology Lisbon December 12 2008
- 6. 6 LRE provides content by Publishers Ministries of Education (MoE) – FWU – In 2009 also – – Austria Cambridge-Hitachi MoE of – – Estonia Cambridge University Press Portugal! – – Finland Skolavefurinn – Lithuania – – Flanders Contento – Norway (Belgium) – Promethean – Poland – France – Young Digital Planet – Region of – Hungary – Siveco Catalonia – Iceland – Dunlem e-Learning – Slovenia – Israel Others – Spain – Ireland – OERcommons – Sweden – Italy – Cité des Sciences – Open University (UK) Lisbon December 12 2008
- 9. 9 What is a tag? Personal metadata by a user, not a • librarian or other expert indexer Personal marker to help associate with • the resource Can be used for sorting or managing • - keep found things found! Lisbon December 12 2008
- 11. Skills needed: to navigate through a variety of learning resources Other sources of content creation (e.g. school book publishers, museums, websites..) Institutional sources Community driven content (e.g. Ministry of education, universities) Teacher-created content
- 12. 12 Skills needed: collaborate and navigate the networks Increasingly, educational activities in both schools and higher education involve collaboration with other institutions, teachers and learners. Collaboration and networking serves as a “new resource” to support and enhance specific learning goals! Lisbon December 12 2008
- 13. 13 eTwinning for schools • 49 500 active members in Europe • Learning 2.0 enables that people, teachers, peer learners, subject experts, etc. can help build new ‘communities of practice’ on local and global scale Lisbon December 12 2008
- 15. 15 eTwinning schools nodes eTwinning projects Lisbon December 12 2008
- 18. 18 What type of information do social networks reveal? Lisbon December 12 2008
- 19. 19 What type of information do social networks reveal? Lisbon December 12 2008
- 20. 20 tightly connected nodes in the central Lisbon December 12 2008
- 21. 21 isolated groups interacting mostly amongst themselves Lisbon December 12 2008
- 22. 22 “singletons” with no connection, least central Lisbon December 12 2008
- 23. 23 What more? Lisbon December 12 2008
- 24. 24 closeness: the shortest distances between each individual and every other person in the network Lisbon December 12 2008
- 25. Reach: the degree any member of a network can reach other members of the network
- 26. Betweenness: Degree an individual lies between other individuals in the network: an intermediary; liaisons; bridges
- 27. 27 New skills needed for teachers? Educators should be able to perceive the Internet and its different networks as a rich resource that can support and enhance learning and teaching of the future generations. Message for policy makers: This type mindset should be explicitly supported by leadership at the institutional and system level! Lisbon December 12 2008
- 28. Paradox: young people have falling interest in maths, science and technology in general Yet young people are keen users of IT tools – Majority use a blog, Facebook or MySpace account, or other IT tool regularly (particularly girls) – Majority play computer games in some form – Now spend more time on YouTube than watching TV Lisbon December 12 2008
- 29. e-Skills career portal Targets IT skills for: – Students at secondary and tertiary level – Early career IT professionals – Educators – IT stakeholders: companies, EU level actors, etc. Lisbon December 12 2008
- 30. Visit the portal • http://eskills.eun.org Lisbon December 12 2008
- 31. Learning Resource Exchange http://lreforschools.eun.org eTwinning http://www.etwinning.net e-Skills portal: http://eskills.eun.org Lisbon December 12 2008