The following link is for a video regarding Philosophy in Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8x4iALsgA
Monday, April 1, 2013
Schools of the future / Digital Literacy / Life-long Learning
The challenge for schools of the future is to create educational environments that expand and enhance the ability of the digital natives while empowering them with the knowledge and skills needed for success in a global society. The future economy will need workers with key soft skills including information literacy, critical thinking and problem solving, cultural competency global perspective, workplace ethics, systems thinking related to green sustainability, business and technology literacy. The digital students of schools in the future will also have to acquire digital literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy skills. The greatest challenge is moving beyond the glitz and pizzazz of the flashy technology to teach the literacy in this new mileu. Using the same skills used for centuries-analysis, synthesis, and evaluation-we must look at digital literacy as another realm within which to apply elements of critical thinking.
Access to world class broadband will revolutionize classroom education and enable students to engage more effectively with the resources from around the world. Technologies are transforming classrooms into more engaging, collaborative and productive learning environments in which instruction can be customized to students’ specific needs, interests and learning styles. It is also redefining the way educators teach, as well as the role they serve-from being the sole sources of information to being guides and facilitators in the learning process. The future of technology will enable people to be life-long learners. Learning will continue into the work place where there is a need to keep up with current information. Closing up, if the rate of change inside an institution is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight…Technology is developing at a very fast pace. If education fails to keep up with the current trends, will it keep up with those of the future?”
Access to world class broadband will revolutionize classroom education and enable students to engage more effectively with the resources from around the world. Technologies are transforming classrooms into more engaging, collaborative and productive learning environments in which instruction can be customized to students’ specific needs, interests and learning styles. It is also redefining the way educators teach, as well as the role they serve-from being the sole sources of information to being guides and facilitators in the learning process. The future of technology will enable people to be life-long learners. Learning will continue into the work place where there is a need to keep up with current information. Closing up, if the rate of change inside an institution is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight…Technology is developing at a very fast pace. If education fails to keep up with the current trends, will it keep up with those of the future?”
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