azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

I completely agree. These success stories are nothing in comparison to all those people who haven't even been touched by all these technological advancements. What do open universities and virtual learning mean to them?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

I don't think you can ignore the success stories. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Transformation is a process, and if we take a step back and look at that process at any point, and we see a positive change compared to pre-technology, then we can say that technology has transformed education.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

there is still much change management initiatives that need to occur in the HEIs in the South African and African context in teaching and learning with both lecturers and students, if we are to transform education through technology and achieve real results that could provide more affordable access for all students
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

I agree its not ony change management but also governance. One problem that prevents higher education from progressing faster is consensus form of internal governance. The cultural expectation within universities is that any major change will occur only after consensus is reached by the conservative academic community. Because everyone understandably fears change, this culture works to retard the pace and magnitude of change. The culture also works to protect its weakest members; continued employment has come to be seen as a property right within the community of higher education.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

It is not always about the money - the SA govn has the money, they are currently spending huge amounts of money in the FE sector and building universities (brick and mortar) - it is about a strategic drive to use technology to develop our skills. The last president and education minister who drove this strategically was Mbeki and Pandoor! (wondering if Zuma and Angie see this as a priority - when they cannot seem to get delivery of textbooks in our schools right)
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

SA is flunking the subjects of maths and science in our schools – a failure that could have devastating effects for the country’s ICT sector, and its economy at large. Are we not producing enough skilled academics and professionals in this sector to transform HE through technology? Is that the reason the conservative academics (who are threatened by technology) - have not brought about change in their own institutions in SA and Africa?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

has the white team given up - or you planning on spamming us between 1am and 3am??
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap, aimed at bolstering ICT research and development in SA, was recently approved by the SA govn.The ICT RDI roadmap is a long-term investment by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), specifically developed to unlock the potential that ICT has for socio-economic development. Without our academics supporting and driving this change another new government sponsored eddort to transform education in SA - may go unnoticed and lose momentum!
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Broadband connectivity was rolled out to 174 rural schools in Mpumalanga and Limpopo. The project, “Broadband for All/Wireless Mesh Network”, was initiated in 2009 by the DST and CSIR Meraka Institute.Funded by the European Union the project connected the 174 schools, nine circuit offices, two colleges, clinics and a number of other facilities. All the schools received a broadband connection through the wireless mesh network that allows for an uncapped amount of communications traffic to flow between the schools, circuit offices, and the Internet. Another example of massive infrastructure and support (donor) spend in South Africa and for Education purposes. What have teachers done about this? How are they using technology to enable their learners in these environments - how have they brought about some change initiatives in their classrooms in this regard? How have they now managed an enabled context?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Pupils at Mlonjana Junior Secondary School in Cofimvaba. Twenty-six schools in the Nciba Schools District, in which Cofimvaba falls, are to benefit from the technology project. (Image: Amatola Water / Get News)16 May 2013 – From filling hungry bellies to high-tech tablet e-learning, schools in the Eastern Cape’s Cofimvaba municipality – one of the poorest regions in South Africa’s poorest province – are getting a technology makeover with the R6-million Cofimvaba School District Technology Project, an experiment in whether and how technology can improve teaching in rural areas.Run by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with the backing of the national departments of basic education and science and technology, and the provincial education department, the project is being piloted at Arthur Mfebe Secondary School, and will initially be rolled out to 26 schools in the Nciba Schools Circuit.Designed as a holistic programme aimed at all obstacles impeding learning – in school and out – the project will not only introduce new technology, but work to improve basic school infrastructure, ensure pupils have enough to eat, and give them proper healthcare.Another example of money and support for Technology in South African schools - what are we doing about leading the change in teaching for these learners that are being enabled - is it still about pedagogical debate or simply lack of trained teachers in using technology? is this the core reason for lack of transformation in education?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Can anyone direct me to valid research that proves technology in the classroom significantly improves student performance. I have yet to see any valid research or research trends that prove technology improves student performance in the classroom.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

There is evidence that proves that use of technology in classroom does improve performance. Research done in Jordan Business School (Does using computer technology improve students' performance? Evidence from a management accounting course) has proved this through an empirical study. The study by Bawanhe (2011) investigates the impact of using technology in teaching Management Accounting and concludes that through the provision of Power-point slides and other technologies there is a positive impact in results. http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol.%202 No.10;June2011/28.pdf
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

I am testing the affordability of the software to see if it could work for our class
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Which affordances specifically are you trying to test? Write-ability? Edit-ability?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Usability is the affordance I am testing. Not sure I like the 50 character limit
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

temporal affordances able to access anytime and anywhere; and the affordibilty of these types of software - can out weight the limit on number of characters. Seems light on bandwidth and very quick!
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

I think affordability of software especially open source is key for any University with limited resources and with specific IT (application support and development skill shortages) - is critical in the successful transformation and implementation of on line teaching and learning technologies - like this one!
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Testing comment one two..... Point of clarity, Point of clarity. . .
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Hi my name is Martha from the white side and i strongly feel the transformation is yet to happen. This is a test
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

How do you adress the many needs of the diverse student other than through technology enabled learning and teaching? Technology is a reality in the changing the educational l;andscape
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

The technology roots are decades old. Britain's Open University started teaching via radio and television in 1971, the for-profit University of Phoenix has been teaching online since 1989; MIT and others have been posting lectures on the internet for a decade.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

This is not a revolution but an evolution. In other words these are structural changes precipitated by the information revolution affecting what higher education does. For example, the role of the research library is shifting dramatically. The need for archives that make objects such as traditional texts available to scholars and students will increasingly be met through the use of digital technologies, both for storage and delivery.Until accreditation issues are addressed and government, academia and private sector pushing these technologies start working together the revolution will not materialize.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

I want to hear you giving examples of our context Africa. MIT, UK, etc will that mean that we are using it back home.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

What fundamental education examples can you give of what was not being done that is now only possible through technology?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

The following provides evidence of what was not being done, that's now possible through technology 1. Delivering content to a large number of students across the globe i.e. increased access2. Financial affordability of courses offered by higher education institutions.Evidence and examples:a. The use of MOOCs by Stanford University: 160 000 students from 190 countries registered for MOOCs at Stanford for free (http://www.oakland.edu/upload/docs/Clips/2012/120723%20-%20edu.pdf). Point: this wouldn't be possible without technology b. Coursera: 680 000 students registered from 43 countries. Once again, this is only possible through technology.http://www.oakland.edu/upload/docs/Clips/2012/120723%20-%20edu.pdf To suggest that education is still "on the brink" is really short-sighted and suggests that the ground covered so far by technology in education is not significant.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Makerere university's mobile phone initiatives: http://www.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/mobile-phone-hook-ugandan-university
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Numeric is an organisational that has taken to translating khan academy materials to the 11 official languages of SA and providing access and tutoring to underprivileged students http://numeric.org.za/
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

There are plenty of examples that we can provide in our African context. One of them is the use of technology in University of Botswana, as argued by Molelu and Uys in their paper titled: Technological Change in Learning Environments: The Case of the University of Botswana. http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=cshe&action=downloadfile&fileid;=81806115511889858521858. Other practical examples in our context is the use of Khan Academy by Ikamva Youth, an Education NGO that supports learners in high school in Western Cape, KZN, and Gauteng.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

So you see, khan academy may have been aimed at a specific market (not intentionally, but by virtue of its prerequisites) however, passionate African innovators have found ways and means of adapting the platform or providing infrastructure in order to increase accessibility to these technologies.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

The debate does not focus on Africa alone. In developed countries education has already been transformed. The tools that are currently being used where created long ago and were being used. Its just that they were not being published
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Higher education globally is under pressure to increase partricipation from diverse groups of students and to produce the skills required for a rapidly changing society. Only education technology has been able to offer some opportunities and additional startegies to deal with this high demand and the challenges of student diversity (Jaffer et al., 2007). If I may pose a question, how many of us would have managed to be on this course and learn effectively from our homes without technology? So learning technologies offer new ways of extending access to higher education by supporting lifelong learning to non traditional students.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

The challenge to educators is to preserve the essence of traditional education while changing with the times. There are serious governance and accreditation issues to addressed if and only if these are addressed can we start dreaming of the total revolution.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Some of these tools are just a privileged for a few (Gillwald et al, 2005) how many Africans out there don't have access to internet and electricity and have missed the opportunity to have this course. Let us not be selfish.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

It can't be disputed that Africa has been left in the dark in some ways, but it is technology that has been instrumental in addressing this problem. Advances in mobile technology mean that people have access to the Internet via their mobile phones. Access to electricity remains an issue, but solar technology now allows people to charge their mobile devices using the power of the sun.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Its try majority of the students have mobile phones but Muyinda says that the type of phones don't support the compability of internet access. Making it difficult to enhance its use in Africa specially East Africa.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Have you tried to find out how many students who are using mobile phones can access internet? In our case in Uganda most especially our distance learning students many of the students still have mobile phones which can not be used to access internet.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Godfrey arent you shooting in your own goal. Read the side you are on very well
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Transformation is a process, and can be thought of as an 'evolution' as my colleague puts it. To say that it is on the 'brink of transforming' implies that transformation is binary in nature, when in fact, in reality, it is continuous.One has to look at the role of ICTs in education. Voogt argues that 21st century skills necessary in a knowledge society require necessary pedagogic approaches which include offering opportunities for students to learn at their own pace, encouraging collaborative work, focussing on problem solving and involving students in the assessment of their learning. ICTs supports all of these, but cannot be solely responsible for producing these outcomes.Day and Lloyd support this argument that learning outcomes result from a complex interaction of factors that contribute to a learning context.Having said this, it is clear that technology has already contributed to transforming education in many ways. On a global scale, platforms such as khan academy and Coursera have provided learning content to anyone with an Internet connection when previously, this content was limited to a privileged few. In an African context, Makerere university has implemented initiatives that use mobile technology to support distance learning.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

You make an interesting attempt to support you position. However you can agree with me that platforms such as khan academy and Coursera I currently saving a certain market segment. They are complementary and far from being dominant and universally accepted.They serious governance and accreditation gaps to close and hence we can only say we are on the brink
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Sure, coursera has it's limitations in terms of reach, but by September 2012, it had reached 1,3 million students. That's not insignificant. It has certainly transformed the way we THINK about education I.e. that a good education is expensive. Also, the technology that the lower end of the market has access to, mobile phones, is also being used to transform education. See example at Makerere University in course reader
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Education has been transformed through learning technologies. At my University, Makerere University, state of the art literature is easily accessible, thanks to the affordances of learning technologies. Scholars are able to define cutting edge research areas in their disciplines due to the presence of learning technologies. For instance, as early as 2005, I was able to identify that the gray area in research in eLearning lay in the area of mLearning. If it had not been for technology, I would only do with paper based journals that reach our institutions when findings therein are obsolete. Moreover, it is very difficulty for institutions to keep abreast with new research areas via paper based journals.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Thank you. You are just giving evidence that it is still at the brink of being transformed through mLearning. But ideally it has not taken off for us to comfortably depend on it. since even if mobile phones technologies have grown our students still us SMS mobile phones.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Of course you wouldn't be comfortable to depend on it. The role of ICTs is not to replace traditional ways of doing things but to enable and enhance the learning experience.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

The debate says that we have reached some where but remained there. I agree that it is for enabling and enhancing learning experience. Think about these issues that have kept us in the dark - Internet access and use, Rural communities without basics, lack of policies, skills shortage of teaching enhancing learning experience using ICT. In fact what you seeing is that educators are teaching ICT but not teaching with ICT.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Laurillard made that statement in 2008, 5 years ago. In the 5 years since then technology has rapidly advanced! It's 2013, would Laurillard make the same statement? We can't deny all the successes in recent years because of technology. Distance learning. Mobile learning. All positive improvements to education.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

It's true that there have been many advancements in the past few years, but they are on a much smaller scale when compared with what still needs to be done in order for education to be truly transformed. What about all the students without any access to technology, who are unable to use mobile learning?
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: Black team

Yes, what they are only doing is to excite us but most of their initiatives end up disappointing us. Many times researches have picked innovations from other places only to find that they don't work for us. there was to much talk about the one laptop where is it now.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

For clarity I would like inform members that 'mpbirevu' stands for Muyinda Paul Birevu, my name. Paul Muyinda
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Learning is facilitated by academic and administrative systems. Academics aside, a number of universities in Africa have improved their Governance through administrative systems. For instance, the ITS system which is used here in SA and in Uganda has really transformed the administrative arm of universities. University financial information systems, academics records information systems, library information systems, human resources information systems have all been transformed. At Makerere University, the installation of the academics records system led to the issuance of academic transcripts to granduands on the very day of graduation. Such a thing had never happened in Makerere University's history but technology made it possible.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

The mobile research supervision initiative as it was reported today (22/05/2013) in one of our sessions is a live example of how education is being transformed through learning technology. Learner-learner and learner - supervisor interaction gap which used to exist amongst distance learners prior to the introduction of the mobile research initiative is now history, thanks to mobile technology. Isn't this a transformation? Yes it is.
Debate: Education is on the brink of being transformed through learning technologies
Side: White team

Universities are increasingly adopting the distance education mode of delivery. Though technologies are not 100% being deployed in these institutions, a great deal of their student support is ported on educational technologies, e.g. mobile devices and learning management systems. Thus the emergence of distance education provisions through technology is transforming the landscape of education.