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EduCamp 2009 in Graz Digital native, totally wired, lifestreaming, information overload, mobile society sind Stichwörter, die immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnen und deren Auswirkungen auf den Bildungsbereich bereits heute in Ansätzen sichtbar werden. Diskutierte man vor Jahren noch über online Lehren und Lernen an Hochschulen, Schulen und in der Weiterbildung, so scheint dieses Thema in der Debatte über Web 2.0 Anwendungen unwichtig zu sein. Doch was passiert, wenn die Jugend von heute, aufgewachsen in virtuellen Netzwerken, ausgestattet mit hochleistungsfähigen Endgeräten und breitem Wissen über Webanwendungen und Programmiertechnologie, Schule und Universitäten bevölkert? Um diese Entwicklung im Bildungsbereich umfassend diskutieren zu können, möchten wir vom 6.-7. November 2009 das erste österreichische und vierte deutschsprachige EduCamp rund um das Thema "Lernende von morgen - Informationsjunkies?" veranstalten.

The ability to relate abstract knowledge to real-world experiences is indispensable in the modern society. Therefore the construction of knowledge from real-world contexts is a major issue of education. This issue is not supported by the current learning management systems. In the RAFT project we develop a system to support remote accessible field trips. One of its applications, the mobile collector, facilitates constructivistic learning processes in real-world contexts.

Rolf Arnold; Peter Faulstich; Wilhelm Mader; Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein; Erhard Schlutz: Research Memorandum on Adult and Continuing Education The growing importance of lifelong learning and adult education appears to be a generally accepted fact. Less well known, on the other hand, are the causes, conditions, forms and types of development in all their variety as well as the changing trends and options for solutions to be observed at different levels. This situation requires broad, intensive and sustained empirical research on adult and continuing education. This Research Memorandum - commissioned by the Section for Adult Education at the German Society for Educational Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, DGfE) - seeks to identify, structure and label focal areas and questions in order to stimulate a more effective, coordinated division of labor in the field of research. This portrayal of the need for empirical research focuses on five fields of research: adult learning, knowledge structures and skill needs, professional action, institutionalization, system and policy. These fields of research are once again broken down into certain focal areas of research or topical areas. Questions are then proposed in order to elucidate the various research options. These questions are by no means exhaustive. Their purpose, rather, is merely to serve as examples. Overlapping between research fields, topics and issues is not random - it is, rather, an inherent aspect of all these phenomena.

In the Daily Galaxy: "Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture,  is about a bit a year. "By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA." Thanx to @JulianEdward pointing me to this!