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Nadia Spang BoveyPurpose of this blog This is the first of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of three books:
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My argument here is that trying to distinguish between academic and applied knowledge misses the real point about the kind of education needed in a knowledge society. It is not just knowledge - both pure and applied - that is important, but also IT literacy, skills associated with lifelong learning, and attitudes/ethics and social behaviour.
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My point is that it is not sufficient just to teach academic content (applied or not). It is equally important also to enable students to develop the ability to know how to find, analyse, organise and apply information/content within their professional and personal activities, to take responsibility for their own learning, and to be flexible and adaptable in developing new knowledge and skills. All this is needed because of the explosion in the quantity of knowledge in any professional field that makes it impossible to memorise or even be aware of all the developments that are happening in the field, and the need to keep up-to-date within the field after graduating.
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Claire Brookshis is the first of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of three books: ‘THE TOWER AND THE CLOUD‘, ‘CATCHING THE KNOWLEDGE WAVE‘, AND ‘THE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLO
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