1. T.Varis 20041 Digital Competence Strategy Seminar Professor Tapio Varis University of Tampere, Finland UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning www.uta.fi/~titava

2. T.Varis 20042

3. 3 Challenges of the 21st Century Digitalization: analog to digital Globalization: local to global Economic trends: the role of the information and communication technology New literacies and competences

4. T.Varis 20044 21st Century Literacy in a Convergent Media World From Information Society to Knowledge Society and Society of Dreams eKnowledge Education, e-learning Workplace Skills New Citizenship and the Role of Civic Engagement

6. T.Varis 20046 Reductionism Digital literacy as operational knowledge

7. T.Varis 20047 A technological process

8. T.Varis 20048 Historical, social and cultural process

9. T.Varis 20049 Educational inventions The phonetic alphabet Printing Telematics (computers connected to networks)

10. T.Varis 200410 A technical change Computerization and mediatization Technical Semiotic Ideological Organized socialization dimensions Organized socialization dimensions Programming and audiovisual languages Science and technology Transnational actors Visualization and virtualization Programmed society Globalization and cyberspace Dimension Process Objects Computers and the Media

11. T.Varis 200411 Digital literacy is key to: Learning to learn Learning to work Facilitating job opportunities Providing each citizen with skills and knowledge to live and work Providing the confident use of new tools for assessing and using knowledge

12. T.Varis 200412 Mental and semiotics change Linked to alphabetical signs Linked to reading and writing Communicative textual competence Computers and screens Computer signs and icons Basic computer languages On-line interactive media competence Digital Competence Digital Competence Linked to texts Alphabetical Competence Alphabetical Competence Basic Competence Basic Competence Basic cognitive operations Oral and body expression Personal and community media competence Basic operations and manipulations Socio-communicative textual competence Global socio-communicative competence associated to cyberspace Basic socio- communicative competence

13. T.Varis 200413 Basic questions Whose responsibility (society, learner?) Temporary telework, virtual family? Educational goals? Critical thinking skill Social competence Multicultural world Basic values

14. T.Varis 200414 A sociocultural change Technical Semiotic Ideological Organized socialization Organized socialization Print and books Alphabetical and linear writing Modern thinking and industrial capitalism Family, community and national Computers and telematics Interactive and hipermedia systems Post-modernism and financial capitalism Global societies and cyberspace Dimension Modern Societies Modern Societies Information Societies Information Societies

15. T.Varis 200415 Knowledge management Anticipating changes in working life and in industrial structures Incentives for the development of know- how (taxation practices etc) Wide-scale cooperation

16. T.Varis 200416 eWorld “On-line” civil society, net groups Local contents ICT in everyday life, work ICT as employer B2C e-commerce B2B e-commerce e-governance B2E employees Legislation, ethics New pedagogy

17. T.Varis 200417 21st Century Literacy Summit Berlin, 7-8 March 2002 technology literacy information literacy, contextual literacy global literacy media creativity social competence and responsibility

18. T.Varis 200418 eLearning Competencies What knowledge and skills will enable people to do human resource development work? General competencies Management competencies Distribution method competencies Presentation method competencies

19. T.Varis 200419 Critical thinking and social competence Alvin Toffler (2000): need for critical thinking to what people see in television or read in newspapers to question the so called ”truths” Social geography (social competence)