2nd International Scientific Conference:
Changes in Education Nowadays:
Digital Potential versus Cognitive Traps
Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society for e-Inclusion
28-30 October 2009
The second International Conference Changes in Education Nowadays; Digital Potential versus Cognitive Traps is organized by European Centre for Lifelong Learning and Multimedia Education at Pedagogical University of Krakowin cooperation with International Federation for Information Processing. It's a first attempt to apply the Bentos-Gonçalves Declation of actions issued from WCCE'2009 (www.wcce2009.org) along the IFIP AGORA Initiative on Lifelong Learning ( http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=50 )
The rapid development of information & communication technologies is changing life of a human today in almost all aspects. At present we can communicate, work, do shopping, or make transactions in a completely new way but in order to take a real advantage of this rich and changing technological offer we should also think and learn in new – suitable way. The changes around us take place more and more often and we wish to keep up with them. So, we support ourselves with multimedia, interactive educational platforms or hypertext knowledge bases trying to learn all life, but…
- Are the effects of our activities sufficient?
- Can we support such old teaching methods with such revolutionary tools?
- Doesn’t episodic and hypertext transmission of information oppose the linear building of structures of our knowledge?
- Can we avoid the trap that the technology tempting with virtual reality lays for physiological possibilities of human mind?
- What effects are there between the evolution of information & communication technologies and the possibilities of their integration in educational system?
The aim of the conference is to confront experience, opinions, scientific theories and practical solutions in the field of changes, which are taking place – or should take place - under the influence of technological – economic conditions in modern education. We suggest a constructive discussion, which will lead to working out suggestions for the future.
We assume the activity and commitment of all the participants, the result of which will be a final document prepared together, which will try to answer the questions: What is a crucial priority to modern teaching process? What should be its basic assumptions nowadays?
The memorandum, as the opinion of the representatives of academic circle in European countries will be submitted to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland and to European Commission. This document will be also an entry point to the Brisbane IFIP Congress in 2010 for the educational stream (http://www.wcc2010.org/IFIP_conferences.html ).
We assume that the conference will have the form of workshops. We predict 3 discussion groups, which during 3 conference days will try to answer the following questions:
I group – Educational system re-engineering
- Redefinition of educational system in the context of the National Qualifications Framework
-What has a significant influence on the educational system nowadays and what are the consequences of this?
- The essence and guidelines of modern educational system (what is the modern education and what are its main aims?)
- The role of the public educational system to promote e-inclusion in the knowledge society?
II group – Ways of accommodality of lifelong learning (LLL) to contemporary reality
- Higher education in the system of lifelong learning (LLL)
- What influence do the assumptions of European Concept of Life Long Learning have on educationalsystem?
- New forms of teaching as tools for lifelong learning
- What are the key competencies to update ?
III group – Priorities to modern pedagogy
- Pedagogy of higher education
- Are the core, direction and the pace of changes in the teaching process suitable and sufficient?
- Mind in the trap of new technology
- What are the criteria for a sustainable education according to cultural diversity ?
Conference Scientific Committee:
Honorary chair Prof. dr hab. Michał Śliwa – rector of PU of Krakow, Poland
1. prof. Bernard Cornu – director at CNED, chair of TC3 in IFIP and member of the French Commission for Unesco
2. dr hab. prof. PU Barbara Kędzierska – Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
3. prof. dr hab. Stefan M. Kwiatkowski – APS, Warsaw, Poland
3. prof. dr hab. Johannes Magenheim – University of Paderborn, Germany
4. prof.dr hab. Jacek Migdałek –Vice- rector for Didactics, Pedagogical University in Krakow
5. Raymond Morel – long-standing Member of European Commission, member of the Swiss Academy for Engineering Sciences and Councillor at IFIP Board, Switzerland
6. Sindre Rosvik – IFIP, Norway
7. prof. dr hab. Maciej Sysło – UMK Toruń, University of Wrocław, Poland
8. prof. Jan Wibe – Chair of the Agora Core Group IFIP, Norway
Local Organizing Committe:
1.dr hab. prof. PU Barbara Kędzierska – chair
2. dr Agnieszka Domagała_Kręcioch – Pedagogy Faculty
3. dr Wanda Jakubaszek – Pedagogy Faculty
4. dr Małgorzata Pamuła – Language Studies Faculty
5. dr Anna Panek – Pedagogy Faculty
6. dr Danuta Topa – Pedagogy Faculty
7. dr Olga Wyżga – Pedagogy Faculty
Conference Secretariat:
[email protected] tel. +48 12662 70 08, www.eckum.up.krakow.pl
1.mgr Beata Michalik
2. mgr Jerzy Drobot
You are cordially invited to participate in the Seminar and share your experience, research outcomes, reflections and suggestions for effective solutions.
Looking forward to seeing you in Krakow,
Local Organizing Committee