an AGORA Studio:The « cyber-facilitator » for

sustainable education

(the «teacher» for tomorrow: key competencies)

Prof. Bernard CORNUFrance

IFIP TC3 Chair

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The Bento Gonçalves Declaration for Action:

Moving the “4 pillars of Education”to the digital age

WCCE 2009, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, July 2009

Curriculum

Initiatives

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LEARNER TEACHER

LearningEnvironments

Research

CollaborativeCommunities Professionalism

« Information age is here already, but Industrial Age Educational System is still here. » (South Korea)

The teacher for the Information age Educational System

1. The Cyber-Facilitator, an actor in the Knowledge Society

Dealing with Knowledge as a public good, as an economical good, as a social stake,

Dealing with Education as a public service

2. The Cyber-Facilitator, mastering the complexity of Knowledge

3. The Cyber-Facilitator, a social actor, preparing citizens of the knowledge society.

4. The Cyber-Facilitator, a guide in the networks of the knowledge society.

5. The Cyber-Facilitator, an actor and a developer of collective intelligence.

Dealing with collaboration,co-operation

6. The Cyber-Facilitator, an actor of a learning society, a lifelong learning society.

7. The Cyber-Facilitator, an ICT specialist, a pedagogical engineer.

An ICT society, in which education can take new forms: Internet, presence and distance, time and space, mobile learning, etc.

Three main domains of competence for the Cyber-Facilitator:

- Mastering disciplins, content, complex knowledge, technology- Mastering the social and human dimension of Education; work with human beings, as individuals or collectively- Work with and in society, as an actor of the society.

Thank you for your attention

bernard.cornu@cned.fr