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Half serious introduction to a WEB 2 course
Duration:
9 minutes and 55 seconds
Country:
Italy
Language:
English
License:
CC - Public Domain
Genre:
Instructional
Producer:
Andreas Robert Formiconi
Director:
Andrea Barbacci
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207
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Posted by:
arf on Sep 2, 2008
Made to introduce WEB 2 in a refresher course of the congress of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine, to be held in march 2009. Actually, it gives just a couple of ideas but it is to suggest the mood which is very different from that of a conventional course. Details in http://infomedfi.pbwiki.com/aimn09, unfortunately in Italian, so far.
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- Hello, I'm Andreas Formiconi, my background was in physics and
- during the first 20 years I have been doing research in the field of tomographic reconstruction in nuclear medicine
- then, I found myself teaching computer literacy in many curricula of the Medical School and in some other contexts
- and now I'm taking care of an experimental course on WEB 2 at the Italian Congress of Nuclear Medicine that will be held in Firenze in March 2009
- Rather then a course we are proposing a path throughout the WEB 2.0 territory
- starting now, in September, and ending at the congress in March 2009
- All the instructions are in Internet (http://infomedfi.pbwiki.com/aimn09) this is just a short presentation to let you know the facilitator
- and to suggest you the mood of this new way of teaching and learning
- First of all we have to specify that we are living in the so called "exponential times"
- The amount of unique new technical information is doubling every couple of years
- Performances of computers and networks per unit of cost grow in a similar way
- Students who had just started a four year technical degree or college will find that
- half of what they learned in their first year of study would be obsolete by their third year of school
- All this means that we are facing a huge educational problem
- Ops!
- Let us describe the mood .. we could talk in an academic fashion recalling
- the last learning theories such as constructivism and connectivism but
- in such a short time the use of some kind of images or metaphores will be more effective
- Just a couple of points
- I'm going to use a bucolic metaphor .. the metaphor of the shepherd
- every breeder knows that in a herd free to graze
- animals are much healthier and produce better with respect to one breeded
- in a stall where the breeder must determine all the aspects of their life
- so you see how animals have a choice of food in the pasture
- and they are perfectly capable to choose what is more appropriate for them
- they feel well that way because they "are made to behave like that"
- despite the long lasting domestication
- The shepherd's role is not about determining all aspects of animals life
- it's about taking animals in a context where they can eat autonomously
- Last learning theories assume that humans "are made to learn"
- and criticize the 19th century classroom centric model with the teacher pouring knowledge into learners minds
- this model appears to be very inadequate for our exponential times
- a new vision of the educator's role is emerging: that of "facilitator" instead of teacher
- the facilitator's role it's about taking students in a context where they can learn autonomously
- thus, the learner is able to learn autonomously in the context provided by the facilitator
- as the animal is able to feed autonomously
- a behaviour developed through a very long evolution process
- even the learning attitude of humans developed through a long evolution process
- whereas the classroom centric model, applied at mass level, is very recent, being born in the 19th century
- a large part of the astonishing human cultural evolution took place before the 19th century
- This was the first point and you will focus it further by participating to the course
- Now to the second point. This is an ecosystem, a beautiful ecosystem
- we are in a wood there are our goats that are feeding freely
- the physical ecosystem that is so important to us, to our lives
- however, there is a second ecosystem, that of ideas and knowledge in Internet
- be careful, this is not in contrast with books
- it's not about setting old methods against new ones
- books are fundamental to us and probably they will be so in the future
- but certainly, human knowledge is completely available in the Internet, if not yet very soon
- and there you can connect with all pieces of knowledge and with all peers with similar interests
- Well, one may still think that expensive technologies are required to connect
- no, I can sit in this wood preparing lectures and connecting with my 500-700 students per year
- using this small computer without hard disk, weighting a couple of pounds, 300€, 100€ the modem
- next year it will cost the half, later on probably almost nothing, being even more powerful
- to be connected is no more a question of complicated technologies or costs
- Concluding, we can state that what we believe to be in the future is available now
- probably, what we need is a kind of mind switch to realize it and take advantage of new possibilities
- There is nothing else left to say but to wish you good luck if you like to participate
- in that case, we will meet on March 21, 2009 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Firenze


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