Lost in the Information Jungle

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Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen

Unfortunately, there are many myths in the teaching and learning space that are as ill-founded as they are stubborn. In the context of the so-called iPad schools, one of these myths is that learners can identify their own learning needs and regulate their own learning processes. This “meta-myth” myth consists of several sub myths.

The first sub myth is: Because all information is available on the internet, there is no need to teach it. This is what Sugata Mitra[1] states in his TED talks and what the Dutch social geographer and opinion pollster turned ‘crime fighter’ and self-styled ‘educational expert / innovator and school reformer’ whose expertise seems to be based on seeing his 3-year old daughter playing with an iPad Maurice de Hond would argue when explaining why his iPad schools are the answer to the just as mythical undocumented problem in…

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Nederlands: Paul A. Kirschner (1951) is Emeritus hoogleraar Onderwijspsychologie aan de Open Universiteit (Nederland), eredoctor (doctor honoris causa) aan Oulu University (Finland), Gastprofessor aan de Thomas More Hogeschool (België) en eigenaar van kirschner-ED. Hij was eerder Universiteitshoogleraar en hoogleraar Onderwijspsychologie aan de Open Universiteit, Visiting Professor Onderwijs met een leerstoel in Leren en Interactie in de Lerarenopleiding aan Oulu University, hoogleraar Onderwijswetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht, hoogleraar Contact- en Afstandsonderwijs aan de Universiteit Maastricht en Visiting Professor aan de Open University of Catalonia (Spain). Hij is een internationaal erkende expert op zijn gebied met meer dan 350 wetenschappelijke publicaties. Hij heeft zitting gehad in de Onderwijsraad in de periode 2000-2004 en de Wetenschappelijk Technische Raad van SURF van 2009-2019. Hij is Fellow van de American Educational Research Association (NB de eerste Europeaan aan wie deze eer werd toegekend), de International Society of the Learning Sciences en de Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). Hij was president van de International Society of the Learning Sciences in de periode 2010-2011. Hij is hoofdredacteur van de Journal of Computer Assisted Learning en commissioning editor van Computers in Human Behavior. Hij heeft veel boeken (mede)geschreven, o.a. Ten steps to complex learning (Routledge/Erlbaum), Op de Schouders van Reuzen en Wijze Lessen: Twaalf Bouwstenen voor Effectieve Didactiek (beiden gratis verkrijgbaar op het web), twee boeken over mythes in het onderwijs Jongens zijn Slimmer dan Meisjes XL en Juffen zijn Toffer dan Meesters (beiden ook in het Engels verschenen), Evidence Informed Learning Design, and How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice. Hij schrift ook regelmatig voor Didactief (de kolom KirschnerKiest over wat docenten kunnen met wetenschappelijke resultaten). Hij wordt gezien als expert op veel gebieden en vooral het ontwerpen van effectief, efficiënt en bevredigend onderwijs, computerondersteund samenwerkend leren (CSCL), mediagebruik in het onderwijs en het verwerven van complex cognitieve vaardigheden. English: Paul A. Kirschner, dr.h.c. (1951) is Emeritus Professor Educational Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands, Guest Professor at the Thomas More University of Applied Science in Mechelen, Belgium, Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) at the University of Oulu, Finland, and owner of kirschner-ED which carries out educational consultancy, masterclasses for teachers, school heads and educational policy makers, and keynotes/presentations at conferences and other educational get-togethers. He is a Research Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science. He is a past President (2010-2011) of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and former member of the Dutch Educational Council and the Scientific Technical Council of the Foundation for University Computing Facilities (SURF WTR). He is chief editor of Journal of Computer Assisted Learning and commissioning editor of Computers in Human Behavior. He has also published more than 350 scientific articles as well as many popular articles for teacher journals. As for books, he is co-author of How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology, Evidence Informed Learning Design, Urban Myths about Learning and Education and More Urban Myths about Learning and Education as well as of the highly successful book Ten Steps to Complex Learning, and editor of two other books (Visualizing Argumentation and What we know about CSCL). He is seen as an expert in many areas and in particular the design of effective, efficient and enjoyable education, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), media use in education, and the acquisition of complex cognitive skills.

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    Onder het artikel op de website 3-star Learning Experiences plaatste ik deze reactie in het Engels (sorry): Thank you for this article, Mr Kirschner, Ms Neelen. As helpful and intriguing as it is obvious to underline the need of basic knowledge. How do people get to believe that knowledge can be gained by the pupil’s own research alone? Such misleading thought must find its basis in some culturally inserted bias, don’t you think? Some, as it where, religious conviction. As is to be found in Rouseau’s Émile, as you might know. My research on this Rousseauist heritage can be found in some papers of mine in Dutch. A link to the one that got most (favorable) attention (on Martha Nussbaum’s Not for Profit, where Rousseau’s ideas are promoted): http://www.beteronderwijsnederland.nl/content/martha-nussbaum-politica-pedagoog
    I wish you all the best in doing your research. Maybe it is interesting to get to more exchange of thought.
    Greetings,
    Guido Everts

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