Observations from the field: on constructive use of ICT&Media tools for Education

- Preparation Talk -

ir. Jaap baron van Till, prof emeritus “Network infrastructures and social networks”

Tildro Research, The Netherlands

Advisor for the AdoptATeacher project in Bandung

Count of Corridoria

T: @jvantill TheConnectivist.WordPress.com

Economic and Social Council: Empowering youth through access to ICT: [information and communication technology], and media.

9.30 – 10:00 July 14, 2015; The Hague, Kingdom of The Netherlands

CC 2015 vantill @ gmail . com

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I absolutely agree with the Ecosoc Chair discussion paper [1] for this urgent issue and with the UN “Youth and ICT” facts [2] and EduSummitOslo policy statements [3],

BUT (just to stir you up for the discussion and hopefully inspire you)

– What practical things can we do about it ? and what ARE the empowered kids doing and what do they want? Mismatch?

Hope in 30 minutes to offer you some constructive guidelines for policy and int’l projects

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ICT & Media:2 Billion ppl online* Education ?• Ql of life ?• Health ?

• JOBS?• Wealth Creation ?

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and EQ

%’s equalon planet

Primary Education Quantity & Quality

*** Uniform but with different speeds (pers.learning curve) Basic skills: reading, writing, calculation, coding, etc*** Empower the TEACHERS with tools: help children understanding txtExample: AdoptAteacher project Bandung : bring teachers online and help them with KhanAcademy.org including technical education and math.

*** Ministry of Education: funding to Nat. Res. And Educ (NREN) rollout to connect schools Examples: SURFnet, DFN, Janet can assist. Example: Wi-Fi with EduRoam worldwide. *** Maker movement tools and workshops: 3D printers, programming, design skills Craftsmen and –women can assist. It empowers kids !!

*** Kits and tools to build and handle ICT and sensors : Arduino stuff and Raspberry Pi Very low cost & high impact and constructive, and they include interconnection tools.

*** Spread WakaWaka Power boxes: solar batteries that give light for reading at night and can loadup cellphones, smartphones and tablets.

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• Secondary schools : Problem 1: Education is more than provisoning known knowledge, most of which becomes obsolete and non functioning fast.

• Problem2: School children are different and want different knowl & skills to become obsessed & specialised about for the rest of their lives.

Several wordwide surveys: A. Each child wants to be an unique individual, that

stands out in the crowd. AND B. Each one wants to be valued and appreciated

for their contribution by their community/tribe/family. In Finland children get more

time and assistance to find that personal skill first and discuss it online with respected up-to-date

skillmasters. Students must train to be really very very good at something so others can trust.

*** “Networking” can help find it. Btweeners (trans-tribal recommenders) [4] are vital.

Low transaction costs for outsourced jobs. High youth unemployment ??

*** Instead of advertising solutions online, find local problems to solve with multi-

disciplinary teams, which include students. Each member contributes and learns

from the others on&offline with different specialisms. The team can Learn FAST. Nothing will

be finished and stable anymore. In the transition we are in things will be imperfect and unfinished,

but inproving all the time. Yes, this can scale up into the Global Brain we are weaving.

*** Key for secondary, tertiary and worklife is to learn P2P Cooperation and P2P Collaboration

accross physical and cultural boundaries. ICT network users are starting to organize

around this concept: New Power which drives value creation and jobs with the help of social media.

It is a strong force and valuable, resulting from ICT Networking Effects

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• The most effective use of “ICT and Media” is to solve problems by way of informal trans-tribal “networking”, with the help of Btwieners: those trusted to interconnect between self centered strong linked groups [4].

In this way also complex, non-linear and dynamic problems can be

handled online & offline. Innovation is often a mixture of very diverse

knowledge.

• ICT offers the possibility of P2P application of a policy of Liebig Law:

find the problem/ limiting factor, remove the bottleneck/ unblock the flow, etc.

(Defined for improving crop yield in agriculture, ca. 1850 by Justus von Liebig)

ICT: website, for example Nabuur.Com (started by Siegfried Woldhek, NL)

(1) Local Demand /problem articulationIn a village

(2) People / volunteerswith spare resources to shareor experience how to solve.Often tacit knowledge !

(3)assistance

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Zie: https://theconnectivist.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/new-power-on-the-rise-user-side-synthecracy/

Value of ICT Networks and Networking? The four Network Effects.

I. Sarnoff’s Law: Media, Broadcasting networks. Value ~ N (number of viewers/ Eyeballs) Additive. Value for advertisers. Supplyside. Exmpl: FIFA: football – commercials [CableCo’s] II. Metcalfe’s Law: Communication networks. Value ~ N ^2 ( number of participants that can communicate with eachother). Quadratic. Value for the networkoperator. [Telco’s]

III Reed’s Law: Number of Tribes you can be member of or not. Value ~ 2 ^ N Exponential through Internet. Value for (adspiring) people to be one of the members.

IV Van Till’s Law: Value for the participants for their unique contribution in network collaborative COOPERATION. Synergy by networked combinations, diversity. Value ~ N ! ( N factorial = N * N-1 * N-2 * N-3 * …..*1 ) New Power ! Multiplicative Value for the team empowered participants with unique skills. P2P Coop’s SHARING = VALUE MULTIPLICATION THROUGH NETWORKING Demandside Link : https://theconnectivist.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/np9-engines-for-the-new-power-the-four-network-effects/

(Only valid in Dutch)

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DEPLOYMENTINSTALLATION

We are here, ICT = General Purpose Technology

Creative destruction

Learning the newunlearning the old

A great market experiment

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Ending in a stock marketcrash

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Prof. Carlota Perez, LSE - the London School of Economics and Political Science

Present 2008 Crisis/ Recession is a Transition. Education? Jobs? Tools Wealth creation??

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“Good Education assisted by good and respected Teachers and ICT will make a huge difference for them and for all of us” ~ Jaap van Till United Nations United People !!!

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Links

[1] Hilde Veeke and Leia Farnan; “Empowering Youth through Access to Information and Communication Technology and Media” ECOSOC Chair letter for discussion at the TEINUM 2015 Conference, The Hague. http://teimun.org/teimun-conference/councils/ecosoc/ The full pdf is not yet online: [ Empowering-Youth-through-Access-to-Information.pdf ]

[2] ITU and UN-Habitat; “Youth and ICT”, Factsheet http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/documents/youth/fact-sheets/youth-icts.pdf

[3] Erna Solberg (PM of Norway) and Børge Brende (foreign minister of Norway); “Why education is the key to development”; http://wef.ch/1LVDIYS ; published July 7 2015 at the #EduSummitOslo (July 6-7).

[4] Van Till; Btwieners, sheets of workshop about P2P Networking and TransTribal Collaboration, at the Open Source Development Conference, Australia, nov 2014; https://theconnectivist.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/slides-of-my-social-networking-masterclass-workshop-at-osdc2014/