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New ideas for supporting the human working memory are required to take advantage of the options of teaching/learning processes provided by digitalisation. A new "cognitive interface" is necessary for connecting human knowledge with the knowledge of digital resources.
The use of new digital techniques and media in class is almost socially mandatory. In his interjection, Klaus Peter-Hufer points out the advantages of programmes that do completely without digital media. Particularly text work are tactile and sensory processes, which are difficult to transfer into digital processes.
The study Competencies in Later Life (CiLL) provides for the first time representative data regarding the competencies of older people between the age of 66 to 80 years in three different domains: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. It is shown that there are significant differences between people with different qualification, but also between people of different birth cohorts. Despite major qualification differences between men and women, there are no signi…
In PIAAC the assessed basic skill problem solving in technology-rich environments connects two different competences: problem solving and dealing with media. Based on a closer examination of this construct and related concepts the comparison of the terms shows overlaps as well as differences which also come into effect in their operationalization. A comparative analysis of the PIAAC instruments with instruments to assess media literacy, media competence or digital competence illustrates the dif…
The article provides an insight into the first results of the PIAAC study and links it with mixed-method and qualitative-empirical approaches as well as the development of competencies in life course. For this purpose, it shows two studies which focus an individual development approach in contrast to the quantitative assessment approach of PIAAC. The aim is to present advantages and disadvantages of different research perspectives.
The author presents findings of the project »S-Mobil 100«, which is aimed at supporting the mobility of senior citizens with new technologies. In addition, it outlines the learning process of the elderly in handling new technologies.
Der Beitrag versucht, das Zusammenwirken von Identität und Bildung in seinen verschie¬denen Dimensionen auszuloten, um so die Bedeutung des Identitätserlernens in der Erwachsenenpädagogik aufzuzeigen. Es wird deutlich, dass im Zuge der globalen Temporalisierung identitäre Selbstverortungen schwieriger werden, sie deshalb aber nicht an Gewicht verlieren. Im Gegenteil: Unter den Bedingungen hybrider Vergesellschaftung wird der selbstreflexive Umgang mit der eigenen Identität immer wichtiger. Dahe…
