The document discusses trends in self-organization, interconnectivity, and pedagogical mediation in education. It addresses how educators can help students self-organize their learning through language acquisition, skill-building, social networking, and online presence. Pedagogical mediation is defined as using various tools and methods like blogs, social networks, videos and podcasts to facilitate participatory, creative and collaborative learning. Effective teaching requires balancing self-organization, interconnectivity and mediation.

1. TRENDS IN SELF-ORGANIZATION,
INTERCONNECTIVITY AND PEDAGOGIGAL
MEDIATION
By Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós
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2. New Paradigms in Education
“Cyberspace is humanity’s new habitat.”
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3. Organizational change of mindset
“Towards knowledge and wisdom”
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4. QUOTES ON EDUCATION
• “It is possible to store the mind with a million
facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Alec Bourne (1)
• “Education is what survives when what has been
learned has been forgotten.” F. B. Skinner (2)
• “Only educated are free.” Epictetus (3)
• “The great aim of education is not knowledge but
action.” Herbert Spencer (4)
• “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes (5)
• “In order to learn, it is necessary to unlearn.”
Gilberto Hernández (6)
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5. QUOTES ON TECHNOLOGY
• “If were a country, it would now be
the 6th most populous in the world.” From inside
Facebook
• “The value of a social network is defined not only
by who's on it, but by who's excluded.” Paul Saffo,
Silicon Valley Forecaster
• “Regardless of what may be the hot social media
property of any particular month or year, social
networking has become a core part of our daily
lives.” Amy Kean, senior marketing manager, Internet Advertising
Bureau
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6. How do we self-organize?
• We self-organize in terms of:
– language (which languages to be learned)
– skills (technical, soft skills)
– smart connections (social networking)
– virtual presence on the web
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7. What is pedagogical mediation?
• In a nutshell, pedagogical
mediation refers to the treatment
of contents and of the different
forms of expression of different
topics to make learning possible
within premises of participation,
creativity and relationshipness.
• Mediation is possible from the
construction of knowledge,
creativity, investigation and the
exchange of learning experiences.
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8. CORE COMPONENTS IN
SUCCESSFUL TEFL
SELF
ORGANIZATION
TEFL
INTER
MEDIATION
CONNECTIVITY
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9. POSSIBILITIES TO MEDIATE
• BLOGS • PICTURES
• SOCIAL • WEBCASTS
NETWORKS • VODCASTS
WRITTEN/READING VISUAL
VERBAL-
AUDITORY
INTERPERSONAL
• PODCASTS • PODCASTS
• VODCASTS • MUSIC
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10. Upgraded Approaches toTEFL and
Education in General
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11. WAYS TO MEDIATE TEFL
BLOGS
FACE-TO-
SOCIAL
FACE
NETWORKS
INSTRUCTION
VODCASTS
PODCASTS
WEBCASTS
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13. Data, information, knowledge,
understanding, wisdom
• Data: symbols
• Information: data that are processed to be
useful; provides answers to "who", "what",
"where", and "when" questions
• Knowledge: application of data and
information; answers "how" questions
• Understanding: appreciation of "why“
• Wisdom: evaluated understanding.
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14. DATA and INFORMATION
• Data is raw. It simply exists and has no significance
beyond its existence (in and of itself). It can exist in any
form, usable or not. It does not have meaning of itself. In
computer parlance, a spreadsheet generally starts out by
holding data.
• Information is data that has been given meaning by
way of relational connection. This "meaning" can be useful,
but does not have to be for everyone.
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15. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
• Knowledge is the appropriate collection of information
as intended is to be useful. Knowledge is a deterministic process.
When someone "memorizes" information, then s/he has amassed
knowledge. This knowledge has useful meaning to them, but it
does not provide for, in and of itself, an integration such as would
infer further knowledge.
• Understanding is an interpolative and probabilistic
process. It is cognitive and analytical. It is the process by
which I can take knowledge and synthesize new knowledge
from the previously held knowledge. The difference
between understanding and knowledge is the difference
between "learning" and "memorizing". People who have
understanding can undertake useful actions because they
can synthesize new knowledge.
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16. WISDOM
Wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic, non-
probabilistic process. It calls upon all the previous levels of
consciousness, and specifically upon special types of human
programming (moral, ethical codes, etc.). It beckons to give us
understanding about which there has previously been no
understanding, and in doing so, goes far beyond understanding
itself. It is the essence of philosophical probing. Unlike the
previous four levels, it asks questions to which there is no
(easily-achievable) answer, and in some cases, to which there
can be no humanly-known answer period. Wisdom is therefore,
the process by which we also discern, or judge, between right
and wrong, good and bad.
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17. THANK YOU!
Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós
ghernandezq@gmail.com
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