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Welcome to LATINA at the Summer School, Oslo University College! [more..]
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Digital technology is transforming the way we learn and the way we teach. Traditional education takes place in a closed physical and social space, with limited technical resources, and with a single person in charge. In countries where web access is widespread, teaching and learning can take many other forms.
LATINA is a course for students, teachers and librarians that want to develop their educational skills on the World Wide Web. The course is aimed equally at those who teach and at those who learn. In digital environments, in fact, the line between the two is often blurred. In the digital world, texts and tools are available to everybody.
Digital education requires a technical infrastructure. But technology by itself is not enough. The new technical possibilities must be understood, embraced and developed. Good teachers use books, classrooms, blackboards and chalk effectively. In LATINA we approach digital learning and teaching in the same spirit.
We stress creative learning and challenging teaching. Superficial learning is accumulation - or more of the same. Deep learning is different. We are committed to change - and ask the participants to go beyond their current skills and conceptual models. The course will give you a practical, hands-on introduction to a variety of web-based tools for teaching and learning. At the same time we will relate the tools to relevant learning theories - and to theories of historical, economic, organizational and socio-technical change. You can read more about the course structure here.
The digital revolution runs deep, and we can only understand educational change if we see learning and teaching in a broad historical perspective.
We emphasize tightly integrated theory and practice. See reading list. The core technological tools you will use as examples and for productive purposes are Wordpress, a wide range of Google and other WEB 2.0 applications, Wikipedia in many languages, Photostory, Videospin, GIMP and others [more..].
