the virtual future vessel
DESCRIPTION
Stiftelsen Globträdet har under många år drivit projekt där barn och ungdomar arbetat med miljöfrågor, internationellt samarbete, konst och lärande. Jag har vi några tillfällen blivit ombedd att prata om hur IT och Internet kan bidra till Globträdets arbete.TRANSCRIPT
Future Vessel, Stockholm October 1998Creativity as a tool for change
The VirtualFuture Vessel
Johan Groth <[email protected]>National Agency for Education
Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Computers and Internet I
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 2 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Computers: rapid execution of simple instructions ”unlimited” memory
Internet: a network of computer networks millions of connected computers
Computers and Internet II
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 3 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
New ways to communicate New ways exchange information Imply changes in how we live, learn and
work
Changes –Analog vs digital information
Easy to store and distribute informationEasy to present informationEasy to copy information, without loss of
qualityEasy to change format of informationEasy to supply meta-information
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 4 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Changes –Computers vs networks
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 5 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Share resourcesShare informationWork together globally”The network is the computer”
Changes –Local vs global
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 6 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Interests more important than ”closeness”
Changes –Information consumer vs producer
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Access all types of information with one tool
Possible to create information in any formatCheap to create information in all formatsPossible to reach a world wide audience
Changes –Text only vs multimedia
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Primacy of text is removedAll formats equally easy to handleA return to ”pre-printing press times”
Changes –Issues vs concurrent publication
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 9 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Printed = permanentPossible to change with timePossible to change with userPossible to change with user’s needs
Changes –Visible vs invisible development
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Services become more importantProducts become ”invisible”Companies become ”invisible””Hard to explain what you are doing”
IT and Swedish schools
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 11 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
A rapid development of infrastructureContent driven, bottom-up approachExamples source of inspiration
Swedish Schoolnet, Netdays etc. Libraries, museums, companies, organizations Schools
How does IT affect schools?
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New ”doors” open into schoolsSubjects change and mergeNo common teaching materialNew sources available, simple and cheapProcesses rather than resultsParallel changes (buildings, pedagogy etc.)
IT and Globetree
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Blue Wave problem based, thematic work
Future meeting multimedia communication across boundaries
Future vessel global, real and virtual meeting
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 14 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Start with a pedagogical ideaNothing is technically impossibleSpend resources on education, not hardwareSpecify function, not hardwarePrepare for organizational and administrative
changes
How should IT beintroduced in school?
Future Vessel Dr. Johan Groth, <[email protected]>Stockholm, October 1998 National Agency for EducationPage 15 Internet Society (ISOC-SE)
Every time and technology has possibilitesIT can be a powerful tool to support
communication and cooperationBut: a forest is an unrivaled multimedia
production!Go out and visit the Virtual Future Vessel!
Conclusions