New media, old culture

Mart Laanpere (mart.laanpere@tlu.ee)Centre for Eduational Technology (www.htk.tlu.ee)

Tallinn University (www.tlu.ee)

Roadmap

• Against the confrontation of new media, old culture: – Pedagogical view– Policy view– School projects view

• Old wisdom: proverbs about learning and teaching

ICT and cultures of learning

• Meaningful use of ICT for teaching and learning depends on teachers’ beliefs (implicit theories of learning and teaching)

• Alternative perspectives on “good teaching” (Pratt):– Transmission: effective delivery of content– Developmental: cultivating the ways of thinking– Apprenticeship: modeling the ways of being– Nurturing: facilitating self-efficacy– Social reform: seeking a better society

E-learning

• Postmodern times: no „grand theories“ of education, many small ones have little impact on pedagogical behavior of teachers

• E-learning as an engine (and $) of pedagogical innovation

• Genealogy of e-learning: CBT + DE• E-learning is dead!? (Teemu Leinonen)

Technology and innovation in schooling

• Socrates: books will kill the learning• Gutenberg: “normalised” knowledge• Comenius: Didactica Magna• Skinner: science of teaching• Papert: jet engine and horse carriage• Evidence-based educational reform and

pendulum effect

Ecological approach: constructivist learning environments• D.H. Jonassen: 21st century’s teachers

need instead of 3R (Reading, wRiting, aRithmetics) the skills of designing learning environments that balance 3 C-s: – Authentic Context for learning– Knowledge Construction– Collaboration

Jonassen’s 3C model

Context

Collaboration

ConstructionKNOWLEDGE

Modeling process

Authentictasks

Apprenticeship

Situated learningCase-based problems

Multiple perspectives

Indexed meanings

Coaching

Social negotiation of meaning

Articulation Reflection

Mental modelsIntentions,

expectations

Internal negotiation

Domain-specific reasoning

Invention,exploration

School projects: combining new media and old culture

• Digitalisation of cultural heritage• The stories of our grandparents• Examples

Questions?