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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?