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The word of the week is The Educa Fair.

19.2.2015

Last weekend, the Educa Fair for education professionals was held at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre. The exhibitors were mostly publishers, libraries, educational institutions, and associations. The education trade union sponsored the lecture program, and this year’s themes were changes in the learning environment and shifts in the role of the teacher. Change has already occurred in the student’s information environment, but teachers’ attitudes change slowly. In many Educa speeches, the online environment was presented as questionable, traditional books as reliable and appropriate. In the same subordinate clause, speakers bundle up and condemn Wikipedia, Facebook, online dictionaries, e-journals, e-books and databases. How on earth does text become unreliable simply by being transmitted from paper to screen? Will the teacher’s slide become poorer when it is published openly on the net? Attitudes towards online activities are unjustifiably skeptical and negative. In any case, since the students’ learning environment has changed, a better theme for the fair might have been “A Change in Attitude”.

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