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Between Tradition and Innovation in ICT and Teaching

Between Tradition and Innovation in ICT and Teaching

Antonio Cartelli
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 7
ISBN13: 9781605661988|ISBN10: 1605661988|EISBN13: 9781605661995
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch026
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Cartelli, Antonio. "Between Tradition and Innovation in ICT and Teaching." Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition, edited by Patricia L. Rogers, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 187-193. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch026

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Cartelli, A. (2009). Between Tradition and Innovation in ICT and Teaching. In P. Rogers, G. Berg, J. Boettcher, C. Howard, L. Justice, & K. Schenk (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition (pp. 187-193). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch026

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Cartelli, Antonio. "Between Tradition and Innovation in ICT and Teaching." In Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition, edited by Patricia L. Rogers, et al., 187-193. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch026

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Abstract

During the past few decades, the expanded use of PCs and the Internet introduced many changes in human activities and cooperated in the transformation process leading from the industrial society to the knowledge society. Among other things, the above instruments played a special role in education, and two main phases can be easily recognized: the former one where computing and ICT were mostly used to enhance individuals’ learning features (i.e., teachers mainly had the role of educational worker: planning, controlling and evaluating students’ learning processes); the latter one, more recent and centered on ICT use, where teachers had to adopt situated and collaborative learning strategies, build communities of learners (CoLs), organize students’ work for enhancing problem finding and solving, while helping the development of their ZPDs (zones of proximal development, meaning individuals’ cognitive areas marked by the distance between the subject’s knowledge/experience in a given field and the same knowledge/experience in the best skilled individuals in the community). The above transformation modified not only teachers’ functions, but also the whole school environment and the students’ role within it. The same ICT will help teachers and professors in finding solutions to learning problems by giving them new instruments for the analysis and continuous monitoring of students’ learning processes.

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