Global Village School: the impact of ICT on

globalisation of educationMart Laanpere

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Estonia

Technology is the answer!

… but what was the question?

Global Village

A term coined by Marshall McLuhan

Cyberbalkans, Global Theatre

Social networks - lightspeed rumors

Virtual communities - identity construction

Schools in the Global Village: what scenarios?

Radical change of the learning environment seems to be inescapable

The learning environment defined

Narrow definition: classroom

Wider definition: physical and social environment that surrounds a learner, including learning resources, technical equipment, curriculum, fellow learners, teacher (with her implicit learning theories and teaching methods) etc.

Changes in learning environment

2400 years ago: Socrates banned the books

500 years ago: learning environment = working environment

150 years ago: village schools

100 years ago: learning environment was rationalized/industrialized

30 years ago: subject-specific classrooms

10 years ago: institutional virtual learning environment

In 10 years: global learning environments, personal mobile clients?

OECD scenarios of schooling 2020

Status Quo scenarios: no change (by choice or inability)Bureaucratic school systems continueTeacher Exodus - Meltdown scenario

Re-schooling scenarios: different schoolsSchools as core social centresSchools as focused learning organisations

De-schooling scenarios: no schools as we know themLearning Networks and the Network SocietyExtending the market model

Three metaphors of learning

Acquisition, participation and knowledge creation metaphors (by Paavola, Lipponen & Hakkarainen 2004)

C.Bereiter: learning in “belief mode” and “design mode”

FLE3 – Future Learning Environment

Getting global

Learning networks: anywhere, anytime, with anyone

Digital Divide, OLPC project

Mobile Wikipedia in South Africa, UNESCO YDA project

Deer Leap in Georgia

Gori project by the pupils of Kolga village school

Global communities of authors

Wikipedia

LeMill.net

E-portfolio

… but what was the question?