Knowledge Ecology and Sustainable Development
Knowledge ecology refer on the investigation and epistemological theorizing various ways of knowing and sustainable development. Although fourth industrial revolution is coming, the pedagogy is seeking to maintain old theoretical concepts and methods. Thi
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Knowledge Ecology and Sustainable Development
You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it. Seymour Papert
Abstract Knowledge ecology refer on the investigation and epistemological theorizing various ways of knowing and sustainable development. Although fourth industrial revolution is coming, the pedagogy is seeking to maintain old theoretical concepts and methods. This cause a dialectical contradiction between requirements of living in a real world for sustainability, philosophy of scientific transhumanism and current education. It is not so important for pedagogy to be the art of teaching. It is a stringent need for pedagogy to become the science that deals with identification and solving controversies, problems and issues, related on sustainable development. The goal of this chapter is to describe the user interface design principles of digital textbooks from the perspective of knowledge ecology and scientific transhumanism. Keywords Knowledge ecology
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The term ‘knowledge ecology’ refers on investigation and epistemological theorizing the various ways of knowing for sustainable development. In concept of Metasystems Learning Design Theory, the knowledge ecology is an equivalent to application of the ergonomic principles. On one hand, it denotes the interconnections of fundamental principles from philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, neuroscience, management, cybernetics and educational technology at the level of 4th industrial revolution. And on the others that ‘research at and beyond the frontier of understanding is an intrinsically risky venture, progressing in new and the most exiting research areas and is characterised by the absence of disciplinary boundaries’ (ERC 2016). Therefore, if we intent to develop affordable solutions for © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 E.A. Railean, User Interface Design of Digital Textbooks, Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2456-6_5
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learning with digital textbooks, only the frontier research in pedagogy is effective to understand user-interface design. What are these principles? In order to understand this question let us to analyse certain principles of the fourth industrial revolution and theirs affect education. According to Gandhi (2015) 4th industrial revolution is guided by: interoperability; virtualization; decentralization; real-time capability, service orientation and modularity. But, from the MetaSystems Learning Design Theory approach, that it is focused on learning, the results indicate to self-regulation, personalisation, clarity, dynamicity and flexibility, ergonomics and feedback. In both cases, the principles of 4th industrial revolution indicate to the need of an innovative structure of competence, which is generative enough to be ‘extended’ during all life. From the pedagogical point of view, this m
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