Children in the Information Age (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
Foreword 6
Chapter 1. To Participants in the Second International Conference"Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities" 10
Chapter 2. A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future 12
1. Technocentrism 13
2. Scientism 15
3. Educology 16
4. Constructionism 22
Chapter 3. Conceptual Threads of Datalogy, Informatics and InformationTechnology 28
0. BACKGROUND 28
1. DEFINITIONS 29
2. THREE CLUSTERS OF CONCEPTS 29
3. DATALOGY 31
4. INFORMATICS 36
5. TECHNOLOGY AND ITS SCIENCES 40
6. CONCLUSION 41
Chapter 4. School Informatics in the USSR: From Literacy to Culture 46
THE PAST 46
THE PRESENT 53
THE FUTURE 59
REFERENCES 63
Chapter 5. "Which has the Most Powerful Influence on Children: Computer Literacy, School or Home?" 66
Chapter 1. What Makes Family Computers so Much Fun? 66
Chapter II. The Seven Great Sins of Conventional Computer Education 68
Chapter III. Basic Strategy of Computer Literacy at Home 71
Chapter IV An Analysis of Housewives' Desire to Own and Learn How to Use Personal Computers 73
Chapter V. The Development of Kumon Coursewares for Housewives 76
Chapter 6. Informatics In and Out of School 86
REFERENCES 91
Chapter 7. New Meanings of Literacy 92
INTRODUCTION 92
1. "Computer literacy" as Part of Basic Education 93
2. New Literacy – Mapping Out an Idea and Its Derivatives. 96
3. Concluding: Act 108
LITERATURE 109
Chapter 8. Computer Use in Education.Trends, Challenges and Opportunities 112
Chapter 9. Literacy in the Information Age 118
I. INTRODUCTION 118
II. WHAT IS LITERACY 120
III. THE INFORMATION AGE 127
IV. LITERACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE 128
V. CONCLUSIONS 129
REFERENCES 131
Chapter 10. Informatics in Education for Children – The Indian Plan Experience and Projections 132
ABSTRACT 132
PROBLEMS OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION IN 
133 
THE CLASS PROJECT OF INDIA 135
PROBLEMS PECULIAR TO INDIA 137
THE CLASS CURRICULUM 138
THE INDIAN CHILD 138
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE CLASSPROJECT 138
THE RELEVANCE OF COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 140
THE NEED FOR INFORMATION-HANDLING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING 141
CONCLUSION: 141
REFERENCE 141
Chapter 11. On Cognitive Processes in Education. A Model for Use of Knowledge Based Systems in Education 144
INTRODUCTION 144
THREE SETS OF ASSUMPTIONS 144
CATEGORIES OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES 145
OBJECTIVE TYPES OF INTERVENTION AS A FRAME-SETTING FOR COGNITIVE PROCESSES 149
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS IN EDUCATION, A MEDIUM FOR REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE, AND A SPECIFICATION OF A DOMAIN 150
META-KNOWLEDGE AS A GOAL IN PEDAGOGY WITH NUTRITION SYSTEM AS A VEHICLE 153
APPENDX: DESCRIPTION OF KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM SHELL FOR CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS: DLH–MITSI 156
REFERENCES 159
Chapter 12. Computers and Measurement 160
INTRODUCTION 160
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION 160
COMPUTERS AND INSTRUCTION 161
COMPUTERS FOR MEASUREMENT 162
VARIABLES FOR COMPUTER MEASUREMENT 164
COMPUTER MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT 164
CAUTIONS AND PRECAUTIONS 165
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE 165
REFERENCES 166
Chapter 13. German Informatics Competitions 170
O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 170
1. THE FIRST THREE COMPETITIONS (1980–1985) 171
2. EXPERIENCE WITH THE FIRST THREE COMPETITIONS 171
3. THE CHANGE TO A COMPETITION BASED ON EXERCISES 172
4. THE COMPETITION TODAY 173
5. EXERCISES IN THE FOURTH COMPETITION 174
6. NUMBER OF GIRLS PARTICIPATING 175
LITERATURE 176
Chapter 14. The Information Age in Focus 178
THE INFORMATION AGE 178
TOWARDS A NEW MEANING OF LITERACY 180
INFORMATICS IN AND OUT OF SCHOOLS 182
EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS 184
CONCLUSION 186
Chapter 15. New Technologies in Education for New Access to Information and New Hierarchy of Communication 188
I. WHAT ARE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FRENCH EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE NOWADAYS 188
II. NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEW ACCESS TO INFORMATION 189
III. NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIERARCHY OF COMMUNICATION 192
IV. A FEW QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS INSTEAD OF CONCLUSIONS 194
Chapter 16. The Second Wave: InformationTechnology and Literacy 198
REFERENCES 210
Chapter 17. Children in the Information Age 212
Chapter 18. Closing Speech of Academician Blagovest Sendov 218
Chapter 19. Recommendations of the International Conference "Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Activities" Sofia, Bulgaria, 19—23 May 1987 222
Chapter 20. Recommendations of the Working Meeting of Editors of Journals and Magazines on Informatics in Education 224
Appendix 1. Reports of Stream Rapporteurs 226
Appendix 2. Debates 230
Appendix 3. Conference Committees 234
Appendix 4. Scientific Program and Speakers 
237