Session Information
16 SES 10 A, Technology WILL NOT Save Education - Views On Teaching, Learning and Researching In The Digital Age
Symposium
Contribution
Deeply immersed in the Society of Knowledge great efforts, including the use of educational technology have been carried out in order to improve education. Changes in the cultural contexts where education takes place have posed new questions both in educational practice and research. Very often changes in educational practices are subject to factors within the context where they are pursued and it is probable that the results vary depending on different cultural factors. Within the field of Educational Technology it becomes essential to manage cultural change in order to make technology happen.
Educational institutions have to provide answers to all agents involved in the educational field: a change of methodology is needed and, in many instances, this will depend upon cultural factors. Thus, cultural contexts have to be taken into consideration in their policies and activities. Cultural change does not come with technology but with the transformation of educational practices and the revision of traditional methodologies. The role of educators is key the same as the position of educational institutions which have to provide the means to facilitate cultural change.
The emergent social networks and Web 2.0 applications have given way to a great variety of educational possibilities which may help consider students, not under traditional categories of race, class and gender but instead taking into account local and global contexts and diversity. Web 2.0 applications are powerful socialization and communication tools that support the process of construction of knowledge and can have an incredible educational potential for instruction.
This symposium seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research in different fields which provides an outlook from different points of view of teaching, learning and researching in the Digital Age. Its departing point is the assumption that technology will NOT save Education unless cultural change takes place.
The different papers in this simposium try to account from different viewpoints for aspects which aim at improving education. Thus, the first paper discusses the need of networking culture in different disciplines regarding approaches and practices of researchers which have made use of web technologies. The importante of networking is also revised as a catalyst of social and educational change. The second paper deals with the construction of a new model of curriculum more in relation to new learning needs and approaches and the eminent role that educators play on it, especially considering their adaptation to change and their practices within teaching and learning processes. The third paper deals with the use of Personal learning Environments as systems that help learners be in control of their own learning process by setting goals sharing ideas and managing learning content in both individual and group basis. The last of the papers faces the educational potentialities of Web 2.0 applications as powerful socialization and communication tools that can support processes of knowledge construction and can have an incredible educational potential for Foreign Language instruction.
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