The information society and ethical dimensions

The use of ICT and multimedia is in most contexts a good thing. It makes the workday easier for a lot of people, a lot of knowledge and information is available and you can have contact with people all over the world. But use of ICT and Internet also have drawbacks. Today we can read about how, especially children and young people, harasses eachother online, for example on Facebook and Nettby. Pictures and information about each of us can be published. It is therefore very important that we use ICT and Internet with wit and ethical standard. We who are teachers have to “educate” our students, both children, adolescents and adults to be critical to how they use the multimedia

Information Society- the consept and related notions

Information technology has been of great importance to social development in recent decades. Technology has in short time changed the pattern of communication in society and created new jobs, learning and research arenas. In earlier times the flow of information was slow, but in the 1800s there was a revulotion in information exchange, initially, there was the telegraph before the phone arrived a few decades later. In the last 20 years ICT and multimedia has had an explosive development and we receive a lot of information very fast. Previously, it was enough to be able to read to acquire knowledge from books. Today it is required that one seeks this knowledge through various media and also that we can contribute text and photos ourselves. This development has created a growing need for people with expertise in applying information and to express themselves both orally and writing. Society needs people who can understand, utilize and further develop technology, but also need people with a conscious and critical attitude to what technology does to people and society. The amount of information is big and must be read and looked at with critical eyes. Many are able to collate and interpret this information, while some are not able to do it. It is said that they who not are able to do this is the new illiterate. and that this issue creates class distintions.

Information Sosiety-cultural dimension

Information society and cultural dimension
The Internet has become a part of our culture whether we like it or not. All of us must deal with it in one way or another. Like all new developments over the years the Internet has influenced us and made changes in our culture. Both the language and the way we interact with each other has changed. Some of this can be negative, but it also leads to positive things. Many of us can for example maintain contact with friends, pay bills, and buy things online. The world is in a way less and we get knowledge about other cultures that can help to give us greater understanding and respect for other people. Also education, work and science are affected and cooperates with organizations and jobs in other parts of the world in ever greater extent. Cultural life can also benefit from the new technology. People all over the world can cooperate and make for example fantastic music without even meet. An example can be seen in the attached movie from YouTube

Information Society-implications for education and sozialization

In this post I will try to share some thoughts about challenges when it comes to study practical professions on the web.The starting point is the health profession I have developed on the web together with my colleagues, and which I have written a bit about earlier. Health subjects has a long tradition in the consept “learning by doing”. It has been important that the theory and practice should go hand in hand. Master and apprentice principle has been the usual way to bring the knowledge and skills further on.
That's why a lot of professionals have difficulty understanding or accepting that study online can be as good as the old and safe way of teaching. When we, through our employer was asked to do this development work, some of us longed back to "the good old days" when teaching and learning took place in a physical classroom with the dissemination of factual knowledge by a teacher. We had also the opportunity to follow up the students in the practice field and evaluate them together with experienced professionals. The education we have developed online also consists 6 short periods where students and teachers meets, and where practical procedures are reviewed and tested, but it is far from as much time as in the ordinary school.
Will this reduce the quality of the education?
It can be difficult and can take a long time to change attitudes. It can also be difficult for a professional with a proud professional identity to feel that the subject become bits and pieces in relation to the former. One of the problems that may feel hard is that you can feel that you lose control of the students learning process. In traditional teaching, one is present there and then, seize the moment, can provoke, and perhaps inspire.
Whatever, education on the Internet is here to stay, and teachers in any subject must maybe have to learn a new pedagogy in order to cope with the challenges that clearly are present. As the society go through changes, the professionals also have to change.
How can web- teachers be role models, inspire and motivate?
On the other hand, as teachers we have to look on the positive aspects this way of studying can give our students. It gives them a great flexibility because they can study when it suits them. Many adults want, or need, to take education in combination with work or caring tasks, and this can be difficult to combine with the traditional way of organizing teaching. Study on the web also provides good opportunities for individual fit. Another advantage is that the students, in addition to the professional competence, get experience in working on the computer and the internet. This is knowledge workers in all professions need in today`s society.
Are the benefits by study online, for both the society and individuals, greater than the challenges and problems?


http://www.nvu.no/faggrupper/Helsefaggruppa-2005-06.pdf

Idag var mine kolleger og jeg i lokalavisa sammen med en del av våre helsesekretærelever. Vi lærere ved Mosjøen ressurs-og kompetansesenter (MRK) er stolte over å ha utviklet helsesekretærfaget på læringsplattformen It`s learning for første gang, ialfall i Nordland fylke. Her kan dere lese reportasjen:

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Nå er jeg igang med min første blogg, som er opprettet i forbindelse med IKT-studiet. Dette er litt skummelt, men også spennende.