ALIEP 2006 conference on library leadership at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: A summary report

This report outlines few selected presentations of the ALIEP 2006 conference based on the theme "Preparing Information Professionals for Leadership in the new age" held at the Executive centre, School of Information and communication, NTU, Singapore, during 3-6, April 2006. The four-day event provided both professional librarians and educators a unique opportunity to explore the collaborative agenda emerged due to pervasive use of convergence technologies in today’s knowledge society. The author, who was also a speaker provides an overview of the ALIEP- 2006 Asia Pacific discussion forum, which carried out a variety of program viz. industry updates, keynote sessions, Paper presentations, invited guests and local tours to national library, university libraries and national Archives of Singapore

The Gilded Age and Technological Innovations

This lesson will include the students teaching about the technology of the Gilded Age to a classroom of middle school students. The lesson will be one week in length and is designed for an AP US History Class. This information is important for students to know because students can begin to grasp how much is different in today’s society compared to the Gilded Age. It is also important to link back how much changed during this time period with the new innovations and inventions that came about. During the lesson, I would like the students to be thinking like teachers when crafting their lessons for the middle school students. They will accomplish this by preparing their lesson plan and researching into the technology of the Gilded Age.https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/gilded_age/1014/thumbnail.jp

The promise and pitfalls of leapfrogging - The Malaysian experience

In recognising the social significance of IT, Southeast Asian countries have launched a number of ambitious IT infrastructure initiatives. Singapore adopted an IT2000 Master Plan in 1991 to transform the nation into an Intelligent Island . Malaysia launched its Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative in 1996. The Philippines has launched a Smart Philippines IT initiative, while Japan is actively building its Fibre Optic Info-Communication Network connecting every business and household for an Intellectually Creative Society to meet social and economic restructuring in the 21st century (Mansell 1998:190). South Korea, Turkey, Brazil and India are also transforming their telecommunications environment and preparing major policy changes to pave the way for the creation of information infrastructure initiatives and their entry into the information age

The Development Of A Code Of Ethics: An Online Classroom Approach To Making Connections Between Ethical Foundations And The Challenges Presented By Information Technology

In today's organizations, ethical challenges relate to areas like fraud, right to privacy for consumers, social responsibility, and trade restrictions.  For Information Technology (IT) specifically, these can translate to considerations on how technology is used to violate people’s privacy, how automation leads to job reductions, or how management information and its corresponding systems are used and abused for personal gain.  In the last 25 years, we have seen an overwhelming technology infusion affecting business, education, and society.  Virtually all areas of our society have been transformed by the usage of technology.  The change is important from an ethical perspective in terms of who Information Technology (IT) workers are today and what their tasks are.  In the 1980s, IT workers were mainly limited to technical fields, such as programming, data processing, server administration, and phone services.  Today, IT workers are integrated into every department of organizations, they function globally, and they have access to a wealth of knowledge and information (Payne & Landry, 2006).  With the power and the skills to access such large amounts of data comes the need for ethical employees.  Morality of respect doesn’t appear, fully formed, at a particular age.  Instead it develops slowly and higher education needs to take a role in this.  Higher education, specifically in business schools, needs to take some responsibility in preparing students for the ethical usage of information technology and the underlying information within those systems.  In this research investigation, an assignment was provided to students in an online course entitled Ethics and Technology in which they were given the opportunity to develop a code of ethics that focused on key challenge areas in the usage of information technology while at the same time making connections to ethical leaders

Afterschool for the Global Age

Summarizes discussions from a July 2006 convening on model afterschool programs and best practices for enhancing global literacy, including innovative uses of community and international connections, project-based learning, and educational technology

A Conceptual Model for Scholarly Research Activity

This paper presents a conceptual model for scholarly research activity, developed as part of the conceptual modelling work within the ???Preparing DARIAH??? European e-Infrastructures project. It is inspired by cultural-historical activity theory, and is expressed in terms of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, extending its notion of activity so as to also account, apart from historical practice, for scholarly research planning. It is intended as a framework for structuring and analyzing the results of empirical research on scholarly practice and information requirements, encompassing the full research lifecycle of information work and involving both primary evidence and scholarly objects; also, as a framework for producing clear and pertinent information requirements, and specifications of digital infrastructures, tools and services for scholarly research. We plan to use the model to tag interview transcripts from an empirical study on scholarly information work, and thus validate its soundness and fitness for purpose

Media literacy of a child at an early school age from the perspective of teachers, parents and persons preparing to become educators

Forming digital media competences and media contents awareness should start from the young age. Only carefully designed and comprehensive actions give a chance for growth of responsible members of the information society. Media education takes place in the family, school and other environments in which children operate. The aim of the qualitative and quantitative scientific explorations was to survey professionally active teachers, people preparing for taking up the profession of a teacher and parents, about media education in the early education process. 120 students of the University of Silesia (Poland) and Teacher Training College of Bytom (Poland) took part in the survey, as well as 32 early education teachers. 12 parents of children at the age of 6-8 took part in the interview. 80% of the respondents (N=152) who were surveyed believe that media education should be mandatory in the process of early education, at the same time both students (3,4 in the 5-point scale) and professionally active teachers (3,7) assessed its significance rather low. 88% of the surveyed teachers incorporate the elements of media education in their work. In the case of apprentice teachers – 65% of them want to implement those elements in the future. Teachers who were asked to provide a self-assessment, assessed their media competences and knowledge about media as good, while students assessed them as average. The section evaluating knowledge of the respondents revealed a diversified level of information held. The surveyed parents have a relatively low knowledge, at the same time in the interviews they present high expectations towards the school MLE. The approach to the media literacy produces a practical pursuit to its accomplishment. The study was designed to show opinions of representatives of three environments that have a genuine influence – or will have one in the future – on the form of actions in this regard aimed at young learners