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 * Proposal submission #020**

External Representations of Structures of Knowledge as a Strategy of U-Learning
 * Title**

Mariusz Kakolewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Technology of Education Department, Poznań, Poland, mariuszk@amu.edu.pl
 * Presenter(s)**

The presenter proposes a new strategy of learning which supports memorizing, organizing, and reconstructing cognitive structures. Interacting with media materials, educational environment, and previous knowledge is the source of intellectual and manual activities, reflections, and emotions, which generates new knowledge.
 * Description**

The emerging new information technologies will allow a learning individual to make notes in different media forms (words, pictures, sounds, etc...) and to organize them into multidimensional hypermedia structures called External Representations of Structures of Knowledge (ERSK). The process of making short records and constructing ERSK represents individual intellectual abilities, preferences, and learning styles.

The main hypothesis of the proposed strategy of learning is that systematic building (by noting) and organizing (by creating and recreating hyperlinks) own “media representations of knowledge” in ERSK efficiently supports mental processes and develops the cognitive structures – “internal knowledge.” The “hypermedia representations of knowledge” collected during whole life, readily available and easy to process, will encourage and support the individual to go “beyond the information given.”

Accepted for presentation. **Proposal submission #020**
 * Notes & Comments**