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Steve Hargadon: Live Monday, April 23rd - The Future Of Education interview series. Recording and MP3 file available for playback.
David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Blog post from a switched on education leader.
"If technology is the enabler that is turning the concept of the job into a social artifact, what kind of planning should educators consider to prepare students for economic reality of a high tech economy? Simply adding technology to the current highly prescribed school culture will not help very much. Technology planning becomes much more complex than providing students with access and skills with computers or even with the Internet. And, integrating technology into the existing curriculum may be an awkward and perhaps misguided retrofit."
"With the goal of changing teaching and learning in its classrooms, Singapore's Nanyang Girl's High School has replaced its textbooks with iPad tablet computers.
The school has now ordered some 150 iPads for a selected number of students and teachers for a test run.
For some of the school's lucky students, heavy textbooks and notebooks are a thing of the past, now they are walking around campus with their iPads, learning and also entertaining themselves."
Exactly!
From Computer Weekly
"Microsoft Corp. today announced the preliminary findings of its multicountry Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL) Research, which shows that students can get the skills they need for work and life in the 21st century through school, but in practice, they rarely do. While education leaders consistently call for change, educational policies and systems in most countries have not yet provided clear definitions of 21st century skills, or guidance to teachers on how to teach and assess these skills."
Some of these should be obsolete now....and are in many schools! How about your school?
The International Conference “The Future of Education” will take place in Florence on 16 - 17 June 2011.
The aim of the Future of Education Conference is to promote the sharing of good practice and transnational cooperation in the field of the application of innovative education and training strategies, methodologies and solutions.
The Future of Education conference will also be an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current projects and innovative initiatives in the field of education.
The Future of Education conference focuses on the following topics:
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methodologies
- Education and New Technologies
- Media Literacy Education
- E-learning
- Distance Education
- Human Computer Interaction
- Learning Games
- Art Education
- Music Education
The Call for Papers, in the Future of Education Conference’s framework, is addressed to teachers and experts as well as to coordinators of projects and initiatives in the field of education and training.
Teachers and experts in the field of education and trainers are invited to submit an abstract of a paper to be presented during the Future of Education Conference. The abstract should be written in English (300 – 500 words) and sent via e-mail to edu_future@pixel-online.net no later than 14 February 2011.
Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook
I love this article/interview with Will Richardson, so many ideas and thoughts align with my own. Are we moving forward? How can we make this change happen faster?
"And I think we have to move to a more inquiry-based, problem-solving curriculum, because it’s not about content as much anymore. It’s not about knowing this particular fact as much as it is about what you can do with it. What can you do with what you understand about chemistry? What can you do with what you’ve learned about writing? What does it look like? Kids need to be working on solving real problems that mean something to them. The goal should be preparing kids to be entrepreneurs, problem-solvers who think critically and who’ve worked with people from around the world. Their assessments should be all about the products they produced, the movements they’ve created, the participatory nature of their education rather than this sort of spit-back-the-right-answer model we currently have. I mean, that just doesn’t make sense anymore."
Live recording with Heidi Jacobs about the future of education. July 2010
This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project:
http://netgened.wikispaces.com
During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future.
“It’s basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online,” he explains. “We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn’t.”
Facilitated by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, this session is a virtual link-up with the Flat Classroom Conference in Doha, Qatar and Educon 2.1 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This event is also our official kick-off event for our www.FutureofEducation.com interview series, sponsored by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and with support from Elluminate!
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