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Christyinsdesign bookmarked on 2009-10-01 education learning 21stcenturyskills

Dave Ferguson pulls out big ideas from Stephen Downes' "OS for the mind" essay. Essentially, the argument is that we need to teach more than just facts: we need to teach people what to do with facts.

    • You can learn to tell fact from non-fact. Detecting deception (or, I think, error, or misrepresentation) is a skill, Downes says, “and you need just as much as your computer needs to be able to detect malware.”
    • You’ve gotta decide. This point is key: decision-making isn’t rote performance, which means it’s not based solely on facts.

This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 30 Sep 2009, by Lucy Gray.

  • 04 Oct 09
    rolandlegrand
    roland legrand

    downes 21st-century education

  • 01 Oct 09
    christyinsdesign
    Christy Tucker

    Dave Ferguson pulls out big ideas from Stephen Downes' "OS for the mind" essay. Essentially, the argument is that we need to teach more than just facts: we need to teach people what to do with facts.

    education learning 21stcenturyskills

      • You can learn to tell fact from non-fact. Detecting deception (or, I think, error, or misrepresentation) is a skill, Downes says, “and you need just as much as your computer needs to be able to detect malware.”
      • You’ve gotta decide. This point is key: decision-making isn’t rote performance, which means it’s not based solely on facts.
  • qienkuen
    Qien Kuen
      • Too many facts: you can’t learn them all, so you have to know how to find them.
      • Facts aren’t fixed: things change, and we need to learn, to “change the previously existing state of our knowledge.”
      • Some facts matter more: we have to select and filter so that we can decide what facts are important to ourselves and to others.
      • Calling something a fact doesn’t make it one: we need to compare and assess things presented as facts.  (For example, I have no interest whatsoever in any “facts” proving that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.)
      • Some facts invite acts: we need skills to decide whether the facts we have are something we should act on, and the sense that we can by acting create new facts.
      • Facts aren’t capabilities: Beyond seeing the possibility of acting, we need the ability to act.
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    Vic Jenkins

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  • monkeyhome
    Peter Milovanovic

    downes 21st-century summary

  • 30 Sep 09
    elemenous
    Lucy Gray