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Learners’ voices about ICT uses
17/07/2009, Giessen –Web as culture
Emanuele Rapetti – NewMinELab – USI Lugano (CH)
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Agenda
INTRO
“Professor,
are you going to give lesson
or to show us a Powerpoint?”
1. Intro
2. The core of the problem
3. DIGITAL NATIVES & pedagogical needs
4. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & learning experiences
5. Our research
6. Main findings
7. Conclusions
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2. The coreof the problem
• “Digital natives”
implicate “digital pedagogy”?
• Which kind of gap between
– Digital native learners
– Digital immigrant teacher
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Labelling our students
Digitalnatives[Prensky]
Generation Y (or
Millennials)[Howe & Strauss]
Net generation
Screengeneration
Net-agers[Junco &
Mastrodicasa, Rivoltella, others]
New millennium
learners(Pedrò, OECD-CERI)
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The sly adoptionof this model
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Key-points:-Teachers have to stay up-to-date with technologies development-Students need learningexperiences that fit with theircognitive style
-Task-oriented-Multitasking-Collaborative-Fast-Focused-Sharing-based
3. DIGITAL NATIVES & pedagogical needs
• Is it anthropologically and pedagogically correct to ever adapt the didactic to the learners’ characteristics?
The dialogue between
• Pedagogical needs
• Learners’ wishes
– In a digital world
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4. ICT & learningexperiences
• ICT Web (2.0) based are a great arousal for – experiences like
• sharing
• communication
• participation
...and digital natives exploit them sistematically
• But, obviously– not all learning experience can be meant to be
• Collaborative
• Sharing-based
• task oriented
• fast
• Focused
• ...
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Enlarging or changingthe paradigm?
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5. Our research
• A qualitative perspective
• Observing the topic not in a US-centred way
• Online questionnaire about ICT use and appropriation + not-structured interviews
• Students of Communication Faculty (USI)
– [then italian students of Engineering (Politecnico di Milano-Campus of Como)]
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6. Main findings
• e-learning doesn’t mean an e-didactic
both students and teachers prefer to use ICT not like “tools for a new didactic”, but like “new tools” for a traditional didactic
• the devices widely used are substantially the same of the nineties
• the “web 2.0 style” hasn’t yet impacted structurally people attitude in learning (miles away to
cyborg-students)
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• (in l. e.) WWW is habitually used to communicate, to share and to gather informations
• a “web culture” exists side by side to a formal one in the university context
• e-learning is considered to play an important role in university learning (but it’s also thought like not necessary one)
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Importanceof e-learning
7. Conclusions
Educational processes misleadedwith technological developmentand e-learning diffusion
NO to Technological determinism( à la page phenomenon)
The trap of generational myth
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open-teachingin which student is co-author because technologically skilled BUT the teacher remains the MAGIS-TER
YES to E-learningWhen it is founded on pedagogical needs
Autonomous learner & fading teacherUnderstanding this relationship in a correcttemporal dynamics
Questions?? ?
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