The Model of the Continuum of Teachers’ Learning Environment A Cloud or a Silo?

• Authors: Eunika Baron-Polańczyk

Abstracts

EN

The article presents a multi-dimensional model of a continuum in educational environment as far as teachers’ activity in the postmodern world, inundated with rapidly developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT), is concerned. The conception is designed by means of literature analysis, complemented with the findings of empirical/diagnostic/correlative research of quantitative/ qualitative character, meant to pinpoint the levels of 1160 teachers’ information literacy within the area of the use of ICT tools and methods. The boundary values of the model were determined (i.e., the concept-constructs of “cloud” and “silo”) together with their referents to six layers, including: technology, society, economy, knowledge, culture and philosophy (epistemology, axiology). Also, an attempt was made to calibrate teachers’ performance in their educational environment at the time of technological and cultural change.

Keywords

EN

teachers’ information literacy; ICT; learning environment model; cloud-silo

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 38
• Pages: 176-187

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Eunika Baron-Polańczyk

• University of Zielona Gora

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.14.38.4.13

Biblioteka Nauki

2032581