Provided by Toso Francesca Mossenta Davide Magonara Luca
Provided by Toso Francesca Mossenta Davide Magonara Luca Liguori Veronica Fracaros Saverio Bianchin Luca
Why new technologies? l Since the Lisbon Strategy, Europe decided to rely on: l New Technologies l Foreign Languages l Entrepreneurial spirit l Sciences l The choice is due to the need for Europe to improve its economy l As required by the Lisbon Strategy, it guarantees a welfare system in line with the development of an updated social model
Lisbon and ICT l ICT is an acronym that stands for: l Innovation l Communication l Technologies l ICT and the other tools are needed to create new and better jobs l This is the core of the Lisbon Strategy l ICT will increasingly affect society
How new technologies affect the society l At European level it was conceived to give a relevant role : l l School computer use, enterprises, l institutions and families l high-speed and cheap internet l use of better machineries in enterprises
Computers in school, enterprises and families l PC is useful to: l enlarge technical skills l make work faster l raise productivity l familiarize jobs student to what they will use in
High-speed and cheap Internet l High-speed Internet is crucial to: l give all European citizens quickly information access l make communications easy in the most disadvantage areas particularly l remove mobility barriers l enlarge people knowledge
Better machineries in enterprises l Use of better machineries is crucial to: l create cheaper goods l create more qualitative services l improve working conditions
European situation “Key data on Information and Communication Technology in Schools in Europe” l Let us compare what the different States in Europe do to adopt ICT four years later than the launch of the Lisbon Strategy
ICT Differences in European States l Data are from “Key Data on Information and Communication Technology in schools in Europe, broaden by Eurydice in 2004 l A further tool to better understand the strengths and e weakness in the European Technology System
The poll is organized referring to : l Different ages: l l l Children aged from 9 to 10 Young people aged 15 Different fields: l l l Context Structures and organisations Equipment Teachers Processes
About ICT nowadays From the analysis a lot of differences among the European States come to light Generally speaking § Nordic Countries correctly followed the commitments taken at European level § Mediterranean Countries have a wide potential increasing margin § Eastern Countries have various and rather difficult standards of development of ICT
Why differences? l Each State has a different tradition in technical skills l Each State has its own school system with different time tables l Each State gives technology a comparative role in order to its economic possibilities
EU policies l Europe tries to conform in all its Member States: l Differences among the development of ICT l Differences related on skills needed to access ICT l Different standards of evaluation l Differences from school to school in teaching ICT
Computer facilities are tools that permit to people to access the multimedia services For young people facilities are relied on: l l Computers at school l Computers at home l Use of the Internet l Technical support by skilled teachers
Computerization l The percentage rate of schools computers differs from 5 to 20 children per computer; but some Countries have a very less percentage l The level of computerization at home is nearby to 50% for some Eastern Countries and reach 90% in Nordic Countries
The Situation
Gross Domestic Product and ICT GDP is strictly connected with the development of ICT: the more Countries produce the more people access to technology
The Internet The use of the Internet is directly dependent on computerization l There are some gaps in costs and service accessibility in the different States l Computer is not associated to the Internet since 15 years of age: earlier it is generally used as elaborator l
Internet widespreading
Learning ICT for teachers l One of the highest topics to develop is to create a widespread attitude in people who teaches to be skilled in ICT l It first comes computers for teachers l After that it could come a spread and useful use of the ICT
Implementing ICT l The implementation of ICT is rather different from state to state in the way it is pursued l All the ways chosen could give appreciable results l The most important thing is to get an evaluation common standard for people’s ICT skills
How to face the situation l Since the Lisbon Strategy, European institutions gave a lot of importance to the development of new technologies: “Working together for growth and jobs”, the middle term review of the Lisbon Strategy is in line with the way undertaken in Lisbon
“The Middle-Term Review” and e-Europe l E-Europe strategy requires l Access to ICT for everyone l Widespread learning of technologies l Digital technologies use to improve life-quality l Creation of new and better jobs
relevant implementations in 2005 Review Creation of researching poles l Assign universities the structural role to implement technology on the territory l l Erase rooted gaps like: l Little competition l Tax policy l Low speed of technologies undertaking
How European directives involve our experience l The Internet is today the most important technology able to create a contact with other people. l As a matter of fact a point of the Lisbon Strategy is: “The Member States to ensure that all schools in the Union have access to the Internet and multimedia resources by the end of 2001”
Personal experiences l We used the Internet to do our works, therefore we constantly update our relied on information technology skills l We used multimedia systems like Wiki, Forum, Blog and documents are uploaded in a web site just created for usstudents who take part in school and project work l A further example of ICT implementation are ECDL courses provided to all students who want to take the licence
Conclusions and Proposals l The development Europe is carrying out is the only one possible to follow: l It will surely produce more services and better jobs But the question remains: l Does this way guarantee a social model or will investing in human capital mean more work for people? l Technologies will surely reduce man’s effort, but when better production will be familiar to everybody will we pursue innovation, in a sort of chain without end?
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