1st Meeting ::  From Goal to Definition

Order of the day

1. Repetitio
2. Lectio
3. Questio
4. Disputatio
5. Definitio
6. Praeparatio

1. Repetitio :: What is / was / will / can be the Goal of Education ?

Lectio :: S. Khan :: One world schoolhouse

Excerpt from the chapter "What college should be like"

3. Questio

Please discuss the question

with a neighbor sitting to Your right side and try to find agreement in at least 2 definitions / attributes. Remember: this is a kind of question where there are no false or right answers.

4. Disputatio

Please discuss the question

with a neighbor sitting to Your left side and try to find agreement concerning at least one already presented "goals".

5. Definitio

"The task of digital education is to maximize force of judgment, in-depth knowledge, skillful expertise and personal integrity of voluntarily learning learners by means of well- thought, future-oriented, cognition-enhancing humanist curricula involving education-about-digital or education-with-digital methodologies."

(from my article "Digital education: ”education-with” / ”education-about” distinction and the teleological definition" submitted to journal Minerva (2019) )

6. Praeparatio

For next week please:

• decide whether You would like to validate this seminar as members of digital or non-digital group


• fill the Digitalisation survey and bring it


• read first 2 pages from the paper 'Digital education: ”education-with” / ”education-about"'  (c.f. https://bildung.digital.udk-berlin.de/didactic )

education-with-digital

"Education-with-digital is concerned with exploitation and integration of digital media and digital tools within the framework of generic teaching, learning, or cognition-enhancing process."

education-of-digital (or education-about-digital)

Education-about-digital is concerned with transfer of knowledge and competences related to logics, mathematics, computer science, cybernetics, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, data science, electrical engineering and information theory.

education-of-digital without education-with-digital

two examples:

• digital counting


• Computer Science Unplugged ( https://csunplugged.org/en/ )