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By Natalie Harr
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(Blog Post #3)
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” -Albert Einstein
logically literate, flexible, creative, computational, and collaborative — in addition to the traditional knowledge and skills that have been valued in schools for over a century.
An Industrial Factory, Image Credit: Wikipedia
As new technologies have emerged, demands of the workforce have drastically shifted. For example, manufacturing used to be manually repetitive and regimented, but technology has made modern manufacturing and factories far more automated. Human work in those environments is more creative nowadays and less repetitive. Workers also need to be able to communicate and collaborate well and make informed decisions. Since technology has been integrated into these environments, workers need to understand technology well enough to support it.
Technology has transformed other work environments as well. Advances in areas as diverse as medicine, travel, communication, entertainment, and even space exploration have continued to evolve as technology innovates. Communication, collaboration, technological literacy, and critical thinking are important in all these different fields. In addition, there has been a fundamental shift within our nation’s economic structure. We now live in a global, knowledge-based, innovation-centered economy. This requires communication and collaboration across cultures and languages in addition to the other skills listed above. Current-day students will be able to thrive in such an economy only if they have the multidimensional skill set it requires. Getting Schools out of the Industrial Age
American schools were originally designed to prepare students for a national industrial economy. As our world has evolved, the In parallel, the Internet has changed the ways we can access and share information, and computers and handheld devices have become more ubiquitous, portable, and versatile. Such technologies and others that are being developed will allow communication, sense-making, collaboration, and new kinds of learning experiences that will foster deep learning and critical and creative thinking needed to succeed in the modern world. The challenges are to imagine the roles technology might play in education, to continually design innovative learning technologies, and to understand how to use them well to support learning. Changing Education Paradigms Video (Dec 2010)
This RSA Animate is created from a speech given by Sir Ken Robinson, a world-renowned education and creativity expert. |
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This is an awesome and exciting adventure in learning! This definitely goes with our district’s goals of blended education and incorporating 21st century technologies.
Will you post a link for augmented realities from Chris Dede’s Harvard website?
The good technologies operators are always in the educattion of effective techniques and methods that provide a good value to every one along with doing the task of community service for them this serving the cause of social responsibility.