kinnernet - Technology in Education

It transformed the banking and the electricity systems, it influenced significant professional and human procedures, it altered the world, yet technology is unsuccessful to penetrating the schools and so far has failed to change teaching and learning.

Indeed, computers are trendily inserted into school �labs� (underground shelters), yet they are heavily protected and isolated from any educational use. Technology in education is considered by policy makers as leisure not as a necessity, as it provides no significant added value.

The �real� players in the world of internet are neglecting the field of education (the educational market). Entrepreneurial investment and thinking in education is therefore left to volunteers of the not for profits circles and to the spheres of philanthropy.

As a result educational technologies are typically not user friendly, over didactic and imitating traditional teaching. It is too simple and sometimes boring for the kids, yet at the same time it is too complicated and intimidating for the teachers. Parents (the customers?) don�t really care, particularly in the peripheries.

Throughout this session I will briefly present (if we have an internet connection and a screen) several 'vanguard' educational experiments utilizing the internet. I hope that this will lead to a critical discussion on technology, pedagogy, and the gap between them.

Comments:

Technology IS NESSECRY FOR EDUCATION BUT IT NEEDS MORE OF WORK AND NEEDS MORE CANALS

THERE IS ONE QUESTION \ WHY WE DONOT USE MOBILE IN EDUCATION?

For passwords and links for our projects:

"The burglary into the CLM company" - virtual course

and for the

"Golden mouse" national compatiition

krauszas@netvision.net.il

03-5180011

Am very interested in this. Here�is some of my stuff:

Rafaeli, S., Barak, M., Dan-Gur, Y. and Toch, E. (2004) QSIA - A Web-based environment for learning, assessing and knowledge sharing in communities, Computers and Education (in press).

Barak, M. & Rafaeli, S. (2004, in press) Online Question-Posing and Peer-Assessment as Means for Web-based Knowledge Sharing in Learning, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (in press). *, available on ScienceDirect, here

Rafaeli, S., Raban, D. Ravid, G. and Noy, A. (2003) Online Simulations in Management Education about Information and its Uses, in Charles Wankel and Robert Defillipi Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies Vol. 2 in: Research in Management Education and Development, Information Age Publishing, pp. 53-80 pdf, d.

Rafaeli, S., Barak, M. Dan-Gur, Y., Toch E. (2003) Knowledge Sharing and Online Assessment, E-Society Proceedings of the 2003 IADIS conference IADIS e-Society 2003 ��pp. 257-266�� (QSIA doc)

Sudweeks, F. and Rafaeli, S. (1996). How do you get a hundred strangers to agree: Computer mediated communication and collaboration, in T. M. Harrison and T. D. Stephen (eds), Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st Century University, SUNY Press, pp.115-136

Rafaeli, S. and Ravid, G. (1997) "Online, Web-based Learning Environment for an Information System Course: Access Logs, Linearity and Performance", ISECON '97, pp. 92-99 (html) .

Please check out JCMC (The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication) and Network and NetPlay (MIT Press).