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

Views: 163 (41 embedded)

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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