6. EMPLOYABILITY/21st CENTURY SKILLS
Employability Skills
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem solving
• Initiative and enterprise
• Planning and organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• technology
21st Century Skills
• Communication and collaboration
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Financial, business, and entrepreneurial literacy
• Critical thinking
• Info, media, and ICT literacies
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10. EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS and the CHANGING
LEARNING AGENDA
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology
11. GENERIC SKILLS – RECURRING THEMES
COLLABORATION
CRITICAL THINKING
PROBLEM SOLVING
COMMUNICATION
Successful learners
Confident, creative individuals
Active and informed citizens
12. CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND 21C THEMES
• Global awareness
• Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy
• Civic literacy
• Health literacy
• Environmental literacy
Employability
Skill:
INITIATIVE AND
ENTERPRISE
13. LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS
• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Communication and Collaboration
Employability Skills:
COMMUNICATION
INITIATIVE AND
ENTERPRISE
TEAMWORK
16. INFORMATION, MEDIA, AND TECHNLOGY
SKILLS
• Information Literacy
• See also 21c Literacies Framework (US)
• Media Literacy
• Think VIDEO! (YouTube, Facebook, etc)
• ICT Literacy
Employability Skills:
TECHNOLOGY
17. LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS
• Flexibility & Adaptability
• Initiative & Self Direction
• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity & Accountability
• Leadership & Responsibility
Employability Skills:
INTITIATIVE AND
ENTERPRISE
COMMUNICATION
21. ADAPTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
THE GOOD
• A sophisticated LMS will adapt
to your preferences and begin to
deliver content in ways that
better match how you learn.
THE TO BE NOTED
22. ADAPTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
“Google knows you better than
you do.”
“Google is turning you into the
person it thinks you want to be.”
(For the record, so is Facebook.)
(2012)
23. LOCATION BASED INTELLIGENCE
AND SERVICES
http://www.muzepoezie.nl/
COLLABORATION?
CRITICAL THINKING?
PROBLEM SOLVING?
COMMUNICATION?
24. LOCATION BASED INTELLIGENCE
AND SERVICES
• Campus tours
• Lesson materials delivered remotely
• Tracking class attendance
• Language learning
COLLABORATION?
CRITICAL THINKING?
PROBLEM SOLVING?
COMMUNICATION?
31. DEVICES that can be implanted in the brain are being trialled to treat seizures, pain, psychiatric
conditions and Parkinson's disease. New electrodes - half a millimetre thick - are being designed
to insert into the brain, detect abnormal brain activity and deliver instant treatment.
33. AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
• Affective computing is the idea that humans can program machines
to recognise, interpret, process and simulate the range of human
emotions.
Can we teach the
machine?
34. ROBOTS AS CARERS
Over the last 30 years people
have increasingly being more
open about the idea of having a
robot as friend or carer.
36. ROBOTS AS TUTORS
• Good Vibes - an app to help autistic people in their
interpersonal relationships
• Tega: a tool (robot) for instructors to assess student
comprehension and attention in real time
COLLABORATION?
CRITICAL THINKING?
PROBLEM SOLVING?
COMMUNICATION?
37. TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years
http://www.vimeo.com/2341387
COLLABORATION?
CRITICAL THINKING?
PROBLEM SOLVING?
COMMUNICATION?
38. NETWORKED OBJECTS - THE INTERNET OF THINGS
(a network of things)
• Tracking objects/monitoring information – wildlife,
consumables, health, inventory management
Ubi - http://theubi.com/
http://www.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.428680?l=en
39. DIGITAL LITERACY?
• Finland has declared that cursive
handwriting will no longer be a
requirement from 2017.
However:
• “Scientists decided to conduct a second
experiment in which these students
would be given a week to review for the
exam. The participants would be tested
on simple facts as well as concepts,
inferences, and applications of the
material. Even after a week of review, the
students who took notes in longhand
were found to do significantly better than
the other students in the experiment,
including the fleet typists
http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-using-pen-and-paper-not-laptops-boosts-memory-writing-notes-helps-recall-concepts-ability-268770
44. SAMR MODEL
Source:
Putting content online
Putting content online with
supplementary audio
Discussion Forums
Have students create video resources
COLLABORATION?
CRITICAL THINKING?
PROBLEM SOLVING?
COMMUNICATION?
46. THE PROBLEM:
"The dominant culture of education has come to focus not on teaching
and learning, but testing...this...leads to a culture of compliance rather
than creativity.“
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html
47. TEACHING AND ASSESSING
NAPLAN: “It’s not the test that
counts but the teaching that is
critical ... and good teachers
know this.”
Greg Whitby
http://bluyonder.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/naplan-friend-foe-or-on-the-fence/
48. CONCLUSION?
THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES DOES NOT IPSO FACTO RESULT IN INCREASED:
• COLLABORATION
• COMMUNICATION
• CRITICAL THINKING
• PROBLEM SOLVING
IT IS STILL THE JOB OF THE TEACHER TO CRAFT CHALLENGING TASKS AND
ACTIVITIES THAT CAN TRANSFORM LEARNING.
IT TAKES TIME AND IT TAKES HARD THINKING.
50. MINDFUL USE OF TECHNOLOGY
• Net Smart - how to use Internet
technology intelligently,
humanely, and, above all,
mindfully.
• INFOTENTION – surf with
purpose; know why you’re there;
have a goal!
51. ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGIES
technologies transform the minds and culture
of their users
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52. IF WE CAN DO IT WE WILL.
CC image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/324536244
53. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ALWAYS LAGS BEHIND
• VCRs, Internet, mobile phones, ipads were not invented with
education in mind but they have become commonplace tools
in educational delivery.
• Education co-opts popular technologies for its own use.
• Robots, wearable technology, augmented reality WILL
be part of educational delivery of the future – it’s
up to you to show us HOW.