TRENDS IN SELF-ORGANIZATION, INTERCONNECTIVITY AND PEDAGOGIGAL
MEDIATIONBy Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós
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New Paradigms in Education“Cyberspace is humanity’s new habitat.”
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Organizational change of mindset “Towards knowledge and wisdom”
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QUOTES ON EDUCATION• “It is possible to store the mind with a million
facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Alec Bourne (1)
• “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” F. B. Skinner (2)
• “Only educated are free.” Epictetus (3)
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer (4)
• “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes (5)
• “In order to learn, it is necessary to unlearn.” Gilberto Hernández (6)
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QUOTES ON TECHNOLOGY
• “If were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world.” From inside Facebook
• “The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.” Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley Forecaster
• “Regardless of what may be the hot social media property of any particular month or year, social networking has become a core part of our daily lives.” Amy Kean, senior marketing manager, Internet Advertising Bureau
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How do we self-organize?
• We self-organize in terms of:– language (which languages to be learned)– skills (technical, soft skills)– smart connections (social networking)– virtual presence on the web
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What is pedagogical mediation?• In a nutshell, pedagogical
mediation refers to the treatment of contents and of the different forms of expression of different topics to make learning possible within premises of participation, creativity and relationshipness.
• Mediation is possible from the construction of knowledge, creativity, investigation and the exchange of learning experiences.
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CORE COMPONENTS IN SUCCESSFUL TEFL
TEFL
SELFORGANIZATION
INTERCONNECTIVITY
MEDIATION
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POSSIBILITIES TO MEDIATE
• PODCASTS• MUSIC
• PODCASTS• VODCASTS
• PICTURES• WEBCASTS• VODCASTS
• BLOGS• SOCIAL
NETWORKS
WRITTEN/READING VISUAL
AUDITORYVERBAL-INTERPERSONAL
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Upgraded Approaches toTEFL and Education in General
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WAYS TO MEDIATE TEFL
BLOGS
SOCIAL NETWORKS
PODCASTSVODCASTS WEBCASTS
FACE-TO-FACE
INSTRUCTION
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Data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom
• Data: symbols• Information: data that are processed to be
useful; provides answers to "who", "what", "where", and "when" questions
• Knowledge: application of data and information; answers "how" questions
• Understanding: appreciation of "why“• Wisdom: evaluated understanding.
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DATA and INFORMATION
• Data is raw. It simply exists and has no significance beyond its existence (in and of itself). It can exist in any form, usable or not. It does not have meaning of itself. In computer parlance, a spreadsheet generally starts out by holding data.
• Information is data that has been given meaning by way of relational connection. This "meaning" can be useful, but does not have to be for everyone.
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KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
• Knowledge is the appropriate collection of information as intended is to be useful. Knowledge is a deterministic process. When someone "memorizes" information, then s/he has amassed knowledge. This knowledge has useful meaning to them, but it does not provide for, in and of itself, an integration such as would infer further knowledge.
• Understanding is an interpolative and probabilistic process. It is cognitive and analytical. It is the process by which I can take knowledge and synthesize new knowledge from the previously held knowledge. The difference between understanding and knowledge is the difference between "learning" and "memorizing". People who have understanding can undertake useful actions because they can synthesize new knowledge.
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WISDOM
Wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic, non-probabilistic process. It calls upon all the previous levels of consciousness, and specifically upon special types of human programming (moral, ethical codes, etc.). It beckons to give us understanding about which there has previously been no understanding, and in doing so, goes far beyond understanding itself. It is the essence of philosophical probing. Unlike the previous four levels, it asks questions to which there is no (easily-achievable) answer, and in some cases, to which there can be no humanly-known answer period. Wisdom is therefore, the process by which we also discern, or judge, between right and wrong, good and bad.
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THANK YOU!
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