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1. Citizens in a Knowledge Society:
Ci i i K l d S i
rethinking education from scratch.
scratch
Part 3
Netizens:
towards a set of digital competences
Ismael P ñ Ló
I l Peña-López
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Quality standards in ICT education workshiop
Belgrade, April 12, 2011.
B l d A il 12 2011

2. A day in a digital life

3. - We live in the Information Society
- How do you know?
- I heard it from a taxi driver.

4. Read the papers

5. Get informed

7. Information overload

8. Echo chambers

9. Multimedia literacy
y

10. Multimedia literacy

11. Go to the bank

12. e-Banking
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14. Phishing
g

15. Phishing
g

16. Go to the doctor s
doctor’s

17. e-Administration

18. Health networks

20. Informational literacy
y

21. Cook

22. “Gastronomic” networks

23. “Gastronomic” networks

24. Study

25. Online educational networks

26. Online educational networks

27. Learn...
Learn
a d eet
and meet t

28. Communities of practice (online and offline)
p ( )

29. And participate

30. Citizenship
p

31. Cyberactivism

32. Cyberactivism
y

33. ...or prying

34. Personal issues

36. Privacy
y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja8xtQNQYDQ

37. Security
y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVGFuuj3mA

38. Identity
y

39. Summing up…
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- OMG I got the paper without
OMG,
instructions
- Sundays you know
Sundays, know...

40. A hobby in a digital life

41. Anemone (blog)

42. Anemone (flickr)

43. Internet… over an existing network
g
The network of people already existed
Applications 2.0: easy, free, at “anybody’”s reach
“I want to do it I do it”
I it, it

44. Anemone (etsy)

45. Anemone (etsy)

46. Anemone (etsy)

47. Anemone (etsy)

48. Etsy

49. Sales… ¿or communities for exchanging?
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The shop “made easy”
The shop as a collaborative market
The shop as a network, as an extension of the community
network
User generated content

50. How about orange
(downloads)

51. WhipUp (tutorials)

52. Cicada Daydream (PDF
tutorials)

53. TrashTies (blog)

54. TrashTies (blog)

55. TrashTies (pro)

56. The Gift Economy
y
¿A Scarcity Economy? It depends.
Knowledge as a means, not as a goal
Gift for reputation
Knowledge, the currency of the network

57. Barcelona Knits (blog)

58. Barcelona Knits (YouTube)

59. Ravelry (SNS)

60. Delicious

61. GoogleReader

62. The network at another level: the Net
Is the network that matters, not the Net
The Web to (re)connect
The Web to discover
The Web as a loudspeaker
The Web as a multiplier
The Web
Th W b as a locator
l

63. Martha Stewart (web)

64. Martha Stewart (blog)

65. Martha Stewart (youtube)

66. Craftzine (magazine)

67. Media: also in the network and in the Net
New channel, new discourse
New conversations
From unidirectionality to the network of peers

68. Education in
Telecenters

69. Evolution of Internet Public Access Points?
telecentre community (e‐)centre
?
Ø (disappear)
Ø (disappear) cibercafe
profits/ sustainability

70. Example #1 (I)
Option #1: Course on Electronic Administration
Goal: Empowering stay-at-home moms
Activity: Course on web browsing
Activity: U
A ti it Use of Public Ad i i t ti portals
f P bli Administration t l
Result: Aft course, stay-at-home moms d not b
R lt After t th do t browse
Public Administration portals

71. Example #1 (II)
Option #2: Cooking course
Goal: Empowering stay-at-home moms
Activity: Cooking receipts
Activity: S
A ti it Search th web f receipts
h the b for i t
Result: St
R lt Stay-at-home moms b
th browse th web f receipts
the b for i t
Result: Stay-at-home moms (maybe) end up finding
other uses for the Internet and (maybe) end up setting
an appointment with the doctor through the Internet... or
buy online... or they chat with their grandsons
online grandsons...

72. Example #2 (I)
Option #1: Course on e-Commerce
Goal: Empowering couch-potato dads
Activity: Course on web browsing
Activity: U
A ti it Usage of e-commerce
f
Result: C
R lt Couch-potato d d d not buy grocieries online,
h t t dads do t b i i li
neither perform e-banking transactions...
Result: Couch potato dads go to the pub to see the
Couch-potato
match on their fabulous flat screen with all their friends

73. Example #2 (II)
Option #2: Agreement with the local football-team fan-club
Goal: Empowering couch-potato dads
Activity: Showcast football matches in streaming
Activity: “R
A ti it “Round t bl ” using i f
d table” i information f
ti from th
the
Internet
Result: Couch-potato dads see the match... on the Net
Result: Couch potato dads buy tickets online find other
Couch-potato online,
usage of the Intenret and (maybe) discover e-banking...
or the supermarket’s website or fix an appointment
supermarket s website...
with their doctor...

74. Telecenter 2.0 and community building
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The Telecenter as a part of the network and in the Net:
the telecenter as another node
inclusion of the telecenter in the community
Digital literacies to be in the community:
technological and informational
media and multimedia
e-awareness, pull (not push)
Community building:
enhance existing networks
inclusion (not digital: inclusion)
the problem of legitimacy and reputation
p g y p
inclusion, then development

75. The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis
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The Internet multiplies
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• Good students do better, bad ones do worst
• Engaged people become more active disengaged
active,
become more disaffected/distracted
The extreme importance of accompanying
measures, of the context, of the framework
f th t t f th f k
• Beware of one laptop per person projects
• Beware of technology for the sake of it

76. Individuals and organizations in the IS
g
Person
Self-programmable Generic
Institution
Exclusion
Source of innovation
Connected Executor
and value creation
Diamond in the rough
Structurally irrelevant
Disconnected but invisible to
to the system
networks
Inequality
Based on Castells (2000, 2004)

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e a ópe , s ae ( 0 ) C t e s o edge Soc ety et g educat o o
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education workshop, April 12, 2011. Belgrade.
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