Digital Competence Strategy Seminar
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Digital Competence Strategy Seminar
Professor Tapio Varis
University of Tampere, Finland
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning
www.uta.fi/~titava
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Challenges of the 21st Century
• Digitalization: analog to digital
• Globalization: local to global
• Economic trends: the role of the information and communication technology
• New literacies and competences
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21st Century Literacy in a Convergent Media World
• From Information Society to Knowledge Society and Society of Dreams
• eKnowledge
• Education, e-learning
• Workplace Skills
• New Citizenship and the Role of Civic Engagement
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Reductionism
Digital literacy as operational knowledge
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A technological process
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Historical, social and cultural process
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Educational inventions
• The phonetic alphabet
• Printing
• Telematics (computers connected to networks)
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A technical change
Computerization and mediatizationTechnicalTechnical
SemioticSemiotic
IdeologicalIdeological
Organized socialization dimensions
Organized socialization dimensions
Programming and audiovisual languagesScience and technology
Transnational actors
Visualization and virtualization
Programmed society
Globalization and cyberspace
DimensionDimensionProcessProcessObjectsObjects
Computers and the Media
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Digital literacy is key to:
• Learning to learn
• Learning to work
• Facilitating job opportunities
• Providing each citizen with skills and knowledge to live and work
• Providing the confident use of new tools for assessing and using knowledge
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Mental and semiotics change
Linked to alphabetical signs
Linked to reading and writing
Communicative textual competence
Computers and screens
Computer signs and icons
Basic computer languages
On-line interactive media competence
DigitalCompetenceDigitalCompetence
Linked to texts
AlphabeticalCompetenceAlphabeticalCompetence
BasicCompetenceBasicCompetence
Basic cognitive operations
Oral and body expression
Personal and community media competence
Basic operations and manipulations
Socio-communicative textual competence
Global socio-communicative competence associated to cyberspace
Basic socio-communicative competence
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Basic questions
• Whose responsibility (society, learner?)
• Temporary telework, virtual family?
• Educational goals?
• Critical thinking skill• Social competence• Multicultural world• Basic values
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A sociocultural change
TechnicalTechnical
SemioticSemiotic
IdeologicalIdeological
Organized socialization Organized socialization
Print and books
Alphabetical and linear writing
Modern thinking and industrial capitalismFamily, community and national
Computers and telematics
Interactive and hipermedia systemsPost-modernism and financial capitalismGlobal societies and cyberspace
DimensionDimension ModernSocietiesModern
SocietiesInformation
SocietiesInformation
Societies
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Knowledge management
• Anticipating changes in working life and in industrial structures
• Incentives for the development of know-how (taxation practices etc)
• Wide-scale cooperation
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eWorld
• “On-line” civil society, net groups
• Local contents• ICT in everyday life,
work
• ICT as employer• B2C e-commerce• B2B e-commerce• e-governance• B2E employees• Legislation, ethics• New pedagogy
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21st Century Literacy SummitBerlin, 7-8 March 2002
• technology literacy• information literacy, contextual literacy• global literacy• media creativity• social competence and responsibility
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eLearning Competencies
• What knowledge and skills will enable people to do human resource development work?
• General competencies
• Management competencies
• Distribution method competencies
• Presentation method competencies
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Critical thinking and social competence
• Alvin Toffler (2000): need for critical thinking to what people see in television or read in newspapers to question the so called ”truths”
• Social geography (social competence)