Notes from the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Fifth International Seminar. Fighting the Digital Divide through Education.
Reflections & Conclusions
The real fact of the digital divide
- Multiple factors
- Many different (digital) divides, in relationship to context: culture, geography, education, wealth
- Where to start? Many and different approaches
Importance of the “digital” issue
- The “digital” embedded in the socioeconomic divide
- The “digital” embedded in the education divide
- What’s the relationship between digital and analogue variables
ICT4D
- Awareness raising
- Build from previous experience (e.g. best practices)
- Open processes, open outputs, open participation
- If added value, will to pay (i.e. impact and sustainability)
- Evaluation, assessment
Community
- Communities of practice
- Leveraging communities by focusing on their needs
- Self-organization
- Partnerships
- Networks
- Distributed agoras to debate
ICTs and Education
- Technology not to replace the teacher
- Need to train teachers in ICT usage
- Who’s the expert? The role of youngsters
- Relevance of open content (i.e. OER)
- The networked, multidisciplinary and multicultural teacher & faculty
- Gain from system disruptions to review teaching & assessment
Digital literacies
- Multiple literacies: textual, visual… and language
- Evolving and pervasive nature of digital literacies
- Digital skills as part of the curriculum, embedded in the whole educational process
- ICTs as a language, not just technology
- Training the trainers, educating the educators
What’s next? (VI Seminar 2009)
- Best strategies of knowledge diffusion
- Semantic web in Education
- Teacher training in the Information Society
- Awareness raising in policy-makers and decision-takers
- Education for citizenship, values and attitudes
- Back to open education
- Social learning, peer learning, emergent learning
Acknowledgements
I would personally like to thank the speakers — for their collaboration —, the audience — for their engagement and participation — and, most especially, to Carlos Albaladejo for being a perfect partner in this trip.
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