21st Century Learning and Teaching

Education may be the passport to the future, but for all the good teaching out there, it would seem that schools are failing to impart some of the most important life skills, according to one educational expert.

Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group, argues that today’s school children are facing a “global achievement gap”, which is the gap between what even the best schools are teaching and the skills young people need to learn.

This has been exacerbated by two colliding trends: firstly, the global shift from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy, and secondly, the way in which today’s school children – brought up with the internet – are motivated to learn.

In his book The Global Achievement Gap, Wagner identifies seven core competencies every child needs in order to survive in the coming world of work.

1. Critical thinking and problem-solving

Critical Thinking AND Proactive Thinking a MUST in Modern-EDU! WHY!? Looks to me as WE will live THE same as in 50's-60's with "James DEAN", Living on the edge Youth & Society", overload of information!? Change? At that time period it was TV, NOW it's the internet, similarities? Well, I think so!! A…

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We all probably know someone who is very intelligent, but does blatantly stupid things. Despite evidence that intelligence predicts a variety of life outcomes, the relationship between intelligence and good thinking is less clear. This research explored whether critical thinking ability or intelligence was the better predictor of real life events.

Community adults and college students (n = 244) completed a critical thinking assessment, an intelligence test, and an inventory of life events. Individuals with higher critical thinking scores and higher IQs reported fewer negative life events. Critical thinking more strongly predicted life events than intelligence and significantly added to the variance explained by IQ.

There is ample evidence that critical thinking can be taught, so there is hope that teaching critical thinking skills might prevent the occurrence of negative life events. We advocate for critical thinking instruction as a way to create a better future for everyone.

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Article: Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education.

In today’s hypermedia landscape, youth and young adults are increasingly using social media platforms, online aggregators and mobile applications for daily information use. Communication educators, armed with a host of free, easy-to-use online tools, have the ability to create dynamic approaches to teaching and learning about information and communication flow online.

In this paper we explore the concept of curation as a student- and creation-driven pedagogical tool to enhance digital and media literacy education. We present a theoretical justification for curation and present six key ways that curation can be used to teach about critical thinking, analysis and expression online.

We utilize a case study of the digital curation platform Storify to explore how curation works in the classroom, and present a framework that integrates curation pedagogy into core media literacy education learning outcomes.

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https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/pkm-personal-professional-knowledge-management/

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We are becoming increasingly aware of the need to analyze the enormous amount of information we receive every day.  This information helps us in our cognitive development and participates in the construction of our patterns of perception of reality. In the case of children and young people, these patterns are in continual development.

Critical thought is a cognitive process that proposes the systematic analysis of information, opinion and statements that we accept in our daily life as valid or true. It is a basic skill for a competent, free and responsible citizen.

It is not about questioning every information we get everyday, it is about being critical with the information that is relevant to us when we make up an opinion about something.

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Are You Open to Feedback?

Some people avoid feedback like the plague. They think that if they don’t know their flaws, they don’t have any. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that these folks make the same mistakes over and over again. Other people evade constructive feedback by surrounding themselves with yes people. They’d rather receive confirmation of their own ideas than be challenged by opposing views. While that might do wonders for their ego, it does little to advance their cause. The fact is, surrounding yourself with yes people is like talking to yourself.

Feedback should be welcomed rather than feared.

In fact, we should thank folks who make the effort to nurture us with their valuable input –– even if it hurts at times. How do you expect to become a better person if you don’t know where to begin? The truth is, practice doesn’t make perfect if you’re doing it wrong. Feedback enables us to learn about our shortcomings and take corrective action. Don’t bury your head…nourish it. That’s how excellence is born.

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Preparing a child for the world that doesn’t yet exist is not an easy task for any teacher. Step back and look at that picture from a broad perspective. What are the critical 21st-century skills every learner needs to survive and succeed in our world? What abilities and traits will serve them in a time that’s changing and developing so rapidly?

They want to be challenged and inspired in their learning. They want to collaborate and work with their peers. They want to incorporate the technology they love into their classroom experiences as much as they can. In short, they have just as high a set of expectations of their educators as their educators have of them.

How Are Educators Responding?

The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, (ACARA), have identified the following as the General Capabilities they see as essential for learners:

Critical and creative thinking

Personal and social capability

Ethical understanding

Intercultural understanding

Information and communication technology capability

Literacy

Numeracy

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Im Netz gibt es sie wie Sand am Meer: Gefälschte und manipulierte Bilder, die mit Bildbearbeitungsprogrammen verändert wurden. Meist sollen sie nur für Lacher sorgen – manchmal fallen auch berühmte Persönlichkeiten auf diese „Shoops“ (benannt nach der beliebten Software „Photoshop“) herein, zur allgemeinen Belustigung. Überhaupt nicht lustig sind solche Fälle, in denen Fotomontage verwendet wird, um mit politischen Absichten einen falschen Eindruck zu wecken. So teilte die deutsche Politikerin Erika Steinbach ein Bild, das die „Refugees Welcome“-Bewegung verunglimpfte.

Nach den Events in Charlottesville in den USA teilte ein Journalist ein Bild, das einen der rechtsnationalen Protestler gemeinsam mit US-Präsident Trump zeigt – ebenfalls eine Fälschung. In beiden Fällen wurden die Bilder tausendfach geteilt; definitiv keine kleine Sache, findet Georges Knell von BEE Secure.

„Durch solche ,Fakes‘ lässt sich besonders leicht ein falsches Bild über bestimmte Personen oder bestimmte Gruppen von Personen verbreiten, besonders, wenn diese in einem negativen Kontext dargestellt werden. Oft ist es auch so, dass solche ,Fakes‘ öfter verbreitet werden, wenn sie in das Weltbild der bestimmten Person passen oder ihre Meinung über eine bestimmte Person respektiv über eine bestimmte Gruppe von Personen bestätigen. In solchen Fällen wird besonders schnell und ohne weiteres Nachfragen geteilt; das ist aber keineswegs nur ein Kavaliersdelikt, denn  in den meisten Fällen verteilt sich der Inhalt damit wie ein Lauffeuer, während sich für eine eventuelle Richtigstellung meistens niemand mehr interessiert – so entsteht allzu schnell eine emotional aufgeladene Diskussion, die sich in einem Sturm der Entrüstung entlädt.

Durch Liken und Teilen in sozialen Netzwerken entsteht dabei eine Art Schneeballeffekt: Immer mehr Menschen bekommen Wind von der Kritik und hinterlassen ebenfalls Kommentare. Rationale Argumente haben dann oft keinen Platz in der Diskussion mehr.

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WHY is Proactive-Thinking IMPORTANT and a MUST in Modern-Education with and about ICT!? In the last twenty (20) years Technology has changed a lot; with the internet and the use of ICT by nearly everybody around the world... ICT is present everywhere, nearly anybody is using smartphones, the internet, Social-Media and in the…

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[Gust MEES] I love Tony's posts!! Straight to the point ;)

One of the areas I noted was the quality of ‘training’. I didn’t get into the whole Undergraduate Teacher Education or CELTA debate (that would be another 3 to 5 sessions on its own) but noted how so many of our conferences are a total waste of time and how the input/guidance of people that call themselves ‘trainers, consultants and researchers’ is frequently of such low quality – here in canım Türkiyem.

Over the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure (or not…) of seeing a wide range of trainers / presenters at an even wider range of events and conferences around the country – and it would not be an understatement to say I am still totally UNDER-whelmed with the knowledge, skills and attitudes of most of these self-proclaimed ‘experts’.

It’s almost as if many of them have never heard the old saying…‘it doesn’t matter what you say about YOURSELF, it’s more important what OTHERS say about you!’

I have decided to be one of these OTHERS…today!

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What does your ideal classroom look like?   I asked a district leader a while back what his ideal classroom looked like and he responded, “It's hard to put my finger on it but I know it when I see it.” This response is more common than not. Think about that for a minute. If…

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