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Michèle Drechsler's comment,
July 23, 2015 3:49 PM
Bonjour Gust. Le professeur Charles Max de l'Université du Luxembourg était dans membre de mon jury de thèse.
Gust MEES's comment,
July 23, 2015 6:52 PM
Bonsoir Michèle, le monde est petit <===> Grande Région <===> ;)
David Witzeling's curator insight,
April 6, 2015 7:22 PM
This is a lengthy article detailing the relationship between 21st century skills and the adoption of technology as a way to promote growth in those skill areas. If you are here, you might find this very much "preaching to the choir," but the article provides a solid basis for understanding the need to integrate technology into education.
Dr. Deborah Brennan's curator insight,
April 7, 2015 2:19 PM
The World Economic Forum has published a new white paper called New Vision for Education: Unlocking the Potential of Technology; the link for the full report is included at the end of this article. The World Economic Forum is a not-for-profit international institution headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Although the focus of this report is worldwide, the gaps in identified twenty-first century skills are very applicable to schools in the USA. In a powerful statement, the report says: “By the time students enter college and the labour market, deficiencies that have not been addressed earlier can be far more difficult and costly to remedy.” (p 8-9). The report differentiates 21st century skills among foundational literacies, competencies, and character qualities. It sees foundational skills as what schools and systems traditionally teach and measure: literacy, numeracy, scientific literacy, instructional-communication technology literacy, financial literacy, and cultural and civic literacy. Competencies sited include critical thinking/problem solving, creativity, communication and collaboration. While curiosity, initiative, persistence/grit, adaptability, leadership, and social and cultural awareness are included in a category called character qualities. Appendix 1 includes definitions of 21st century skills. The instructional cycle is referred to as a “closed loop” in this report. Beginning with clear learning objectives through the development of curriculum and instructional strategies to instructional delivery, ongoing assessment, interventions and the tracking of learning outcomes in a repeating complex system. The report looks at ways that technology can be embedded into each step of the instructional loop to improve student learning outcomes and eliminate the skill gap, providing some resources that might be used at different phases of the cycle. The report cites differences in the use of technology tools to close the skill gap, looking at different income levels among countries which create different contexts and stating that there are fundamental social and economic problems, such as poverty, that impede learning and underlie the skills gap. Although the deficiencies in many undeveloped countries far surpass those found in the United States, it is my perspective that there are different contexts within the United States itself that must be acknowledged and addressed. The importance of creativity, problem solving and innovation to the economic well-being of our nation and therefore, the employability of our workforce cannot be stressed enough. The pressure of standardized testing can lead to a standardized curriculum and instruction model that does not allow the classroom time for these skills to develop. Teachers caught in this dilemma are often driven to insure success on state tests at the cost of providing time for experimentation, reflection, and collaborative feedback. The report does suggest using technology for some of the foundational skills in order to free teacher time to provide instruction on competency and character skills. In two of the examples from low income countries, technology was used to provide scripted lessons that were created centrally to under-trained teachers. My preference would be to more fully train teachers or provide a mentor/coach rather than a “turn the page” curriculum model. One of the tenants of the article is the need to define and find a metric to assess each of these 21st century skills in order to compare countries skill level. Although I agree with the need to define the skills needed and provide training and resources to teachers so these skills can be embedded into the curriculum and instruction, the idea of an assessment to measure creativity or persistence fills me with dread. Paul Torrance developed a well-used test for creativity used to screen students for school gifted and talented programs. It is not a test that can be administered and interpreted without training. The idea of administering a standardized test which by definition is convergent in thinking to measure a thinking skill that is divergent by definition seems inappropriate and a major shortcoming of this report.
Krishan Maggon 's curator insight,
March 8, 2015 12:43 AM
CapGemini report about the impact of current and near future technology.
Ian Berry's curator insight,
March 9, 2015 2:07 AM
The last question interested me "One final question arises: what roles will we (humans) have in the “Internet of Everything” future?" For me I'm more interested in What role does IoE play in what it means to be the remarkable, one-of-a-kind human being that each of us is?
Milton Jon's curator insight,
March 18, 2015 5:48 AM
UW Health Information Management & Technology,. (2015). 6 Health Information Technology Infographics You Need To See Right Now - UW Health Information Management & Technology. Retrieved 18 March 2015
Fabio, reports on the ever-changing ways of how the internet has shaped our world today. |
Terry Doherty's curator insight,
March 9, 2015 9:27 AM
A great disucssion on on the connection between doing and learning (retention).
"When you’re learning by doing, you’re implementing everything that makes our memory work. When you’re able to connect what you’re learning with a real world task, that forms the bonds in your brain, and subsequently the skills you’re learning will stick around."
Tony Guzman's curator insight,
March 2, 2015 3:33 PM
This article shares on how the Internet, and the way we connect to it, is changing in 2015. Any surprises?
Tony Guzman's curator insight,
December 1, 2014 10:46 AM
This infographic describes what the eLearning trends of 2015 might be.
Gust MEES's curator insight,
February 5, 2015 5:37 PM
Adobe has released Flash Player 16.0.0.305, a new version that fixes the latest zero-day flaw (CVE-2015-0313) that is currently exploited in... |
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