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Integrating the “Prerequisite Tree” TOC Tool
Through the “Ambitious Target” Context
into Computer and Internet Literacy Courses
In a Teachers' College
Zzippi Margalit
zzippi@macam.ac.il
Levinsky Teacher Training College, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv University, School of Education
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contents:
Introduction 
Research system 
Examples 
How can we achieve an ambitious 
target through a forum in the Internet?
Results 
Implications 
Further research 
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Communication with others
Self-development
Computers and the
Internet
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Course goals:
Learning
computer and
Internet
applications
Integrating the
content through
TOC tools
Gaining insights
through the new
structure of the
thoughts
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Through a content that is
relevant, internal and
has pedagogical
implementations
Mapping and arranging
common-sense and
intuitive thinking step by
step into a chart
Implementing the tools
in personal life and in
education
Who? Where? When?
12 teacher trainees •
18 professional teachers •
3 computer and Internet literacy courses•
Levinsky Teacher Training College, Tel •
Aviv, Israel
September 1999 to June 2000•
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The system
Getting familiar with the ”Prerequisite Tree”
tool, through the ambitious target context by
means of computers and Internet
Applying the tool in students’ personal lives
Creating examples for applying the tool in
education
Responding to an anonymous, computerized
open-ended questionnaire
Discovering the students attitudes, behaviors
and feelings towards these activities
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My partner &
me are staying
in the USA
communicate
:
letters,phon
e, e-mail
Can be
delaye
d for 3
years
miss family & friends
my partner’s job
next year training
planning a baby
family
in the
US will
help
getting a job in the US
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Can
return
to his
Job in
one year
We can
try in
spite of
the
difficultie
s
Achieving an ambitious target:
My educational site is working well, there is
learning going on and I am satisfied
Intermediate
Obstacles
Goals
Ask for help I can’t do it on my own
My students
Work on it
Take a course
Check if I’m ready
for criticism
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I have not decided who is my
audience/client
I’m afraid
I don’t know how to do it
I will be under more criticism
Devora: “The Canaanites have
been defeated. The people of
Israel are living in peace,
prosperity and faith.”
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Columbus: “I have found a
new passage to India”
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Shakespeare: “I’m writing
successful plays and have a
theatre of my own”
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Gandhi: “The British
conquest has ended. My
country is independent”.
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How to achieve an ambitious target
through a forum on the Internet?
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The ambitious target of
:Moses
I led safely the people of Israel from Egypt to
the Promised Land
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led
the people
of Israel
from Egypt
to the to
I safely
led safely
the people
of Israel
from Egypt
Promised
Land Land
the Promised
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Advantages of this new communication event:
Team work and knowledge pooling towards a shared 
creation, without the need of appointments
Flexibility in time - no need to make a synchronous 
appointment
Intuitive thoughts are written with no pressure, no limits 
of time, and therefore are deeper and more meaningful
Ideas are written on the screen, and therefore are 
permanent, visible, articulated and explicit (Vygotsky
1978).
Clear tree outline of the procedure is created 
Whole procedure is to a protocol and can be reviewed 
Material can be used in any computerized application 
for rewriting and summarizing
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The questionnaire:
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My Reference to the tool
“achieving an ambitious target”:
I think that the tool “Achieving an Ambitious Target “….. 
I feel that the tool “Achieving an Ambitious Target “….. 
I am using the tool “ Achieving an Ambitious Target “….. 
The integration of computer with the tool “ Achieving an 
Ambitious Target “…..
I would like….. 
I would suggest…. 
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Some of students’
reactions
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I think that the tool
“Achieving an Ambitious
Target “…..
“Is a good tool to work with children
because they can separate between
the target and the solutions”
“Made the complicated things look
simple and organized in my head”
“Can help me both as a teacher and in
my private life”
“Contributed a lot to me and elevated
my expectations”
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I think that the Am bitious Target tool… .
7%
3%
n o an sw er
in differen t
positive/very positive
90%
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I feel that the tool
“Achieving an Ambitious
Target “…..
“Is very contributing, because I found out
many new private targets, I really
didn’t know that I’m so ambitious….”
“Is still new to me”
“can help in some way, by organizing
thoughts, but not everyone can express
himself easily”
“made it very easy for me to learn the
computer”
“can help us get over obstacles in life but
is a very good tool for solving children's
private and social problems”
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I feel that the Am bitious Target tool is...
3%
7%
n o an sw er
n ot applicable
positive/very positive
90%
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using the Am bitious Target tool
20%
46%
7%
n o an sw er
n ot u sin g
in ten tion to u se
u sin g
27%
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In te g ra tin g Am b itio u s Ta rg e t w ith C o m p u te r
a n d C o m m u n ic a tio n To o ls
10%
10%
no a ns w e r
not ne c e s s a ry
pos itive /ve ry pos itive
80%
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The results indicate that the
activities mentioned should be
included in the curriculum of
teachers’ education programs
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Further research suggestions
Focus on other TOC tools:
The “Evaporating Cloud”- to identify, construct and solve •
conflicts
The “Current reality tree”- to illustrate the relationships•
between the core conflict and the more apparent •
problems
The “Six Phases of Resistance to Change” tool•
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The conflict:
Shall we stay with the familiar and known,
or leave Egypt towards the promised land?
Shall we go to the unknown “desert” of
computers, internet, TOC and other tools,
where we need special survival equipment?
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Thank you!
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