Knobel and Lankshear (2007) in their book "A new literacies sampler" regard there are two mindsets for people approaching the contemporary world.
Physical-industrial mindset
We are in modern-industrial period, only the technology is new and advanced. There are no big change in economic, cultural, social world that has evolved throughout the modern era. We should treat technology as the same as before in all aspects such as bodies, materials, property and forms of ownership, industrial techniques and principles, physical texts, face to face dealings .....
Cyberspatial postindustrial mindset
The contemporary world is different to how it has been for 30 years. The great difference is basically from digital technologies and electronic network. People should have new ways of doing things and new ways of being that are made possible by new tools and techniques, rather than using new technologies to do familiar things in more "technologized" ways (first mindset).
What kind of mindsets should be adapted in education?
Physical-industrial mindset
We are in modern-industrial period, only the technology is new and advanced. There are no big change in economic, cultural, social world that has evolved throughout the modern era. We should treat technology as the same as before in all aspects such as bodies, materials, property and forms of ownership, industrial techniques and principles, physical texts, face to face dealings .....
Cyberspatial postindustrial mindset
The contemporary world is different to how it has been for 30 years. The great difference is basically from digital technologies and electronic network. People should have new ways of doing things and new ways of being that are made possible by new tools and techniques, rather than using new technologies to do familiar things in more "technologized" ways (first mindset).
What kind of mindsets should be adapted in education?
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