What is the future of education?
Education innovators like Dr. Sugata Mitra, visiting professor at MIT; Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy; and Dr. Catherine Lucey, Vice Dean of Education at UCSF, are redefining how we engage young minds for a creatively and technologically-advanced future. Which of these eduvators holds the key for unlocking the learning potential inside every student?
A doom scenario on the future of higher education by EPIC 2020. EPIC 2020, stands for the proposition that the education of the world will change dramatically for the better during this decade. The movie hopes to provide tools that shatter the paradigm that the future will be anything like the past as well as facilitate discussion and accelerate actions to bring about the transformation of the education of the world.
(Source: epic2020.org)
Biology classroom.
Paul Andersen has been teaching science in Montana for the last eighteen years. He explains how he is using elements of game design to improve learning in his AP Biology classroom. Paul’s science videos have been viewed millions of times by students around the world. He was the 2011 Montana Teacher of the Year and he is currently a science teacher at Bozeman High School. For more information on Paul’s work visit http://www.bozemanscience.com.
Why Education in Finland Works
AFT (Amercian Federation of Teachers) President Randi Weingarten visits schools in Finland to learn how they have ascended to the top in student achievement.
Noam Chomsky: the purpose of education
Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment. Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference - Jan 25th 2012-
Once the eighth lowest-performing middle school in North-Carolina, Cochrane Collegiate reversed course and is swiftly raising student achievement by investing in research-based teaching strategies, enhancing teacher excellence, and fostering strong relationships. Read the article. [Interactive Video Player: Look for downloadable PDF worksheets and other resource links to appear under the player as you watch the video.]
21st century enlightenment
Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of 21st century enlightenment, how the idea might help us meet the challenges we face today, and the role that can be played by organisations such as the RSA.
Finland: Maintaining a Strongly Supportive School System
Finland’s schools are well integrated in communities and teachers are highly committed, making it a top PISA performer with little variation among pupils of differing backgrounds.
Primary education in 2020.
The impact of ICT on Primary schooling over the next nine years will result in educational changes in teacher pedagogies and student learning. By 2020, an appropriate teacher model will be developed to assist with such changes and their implications. With the development of Web 3.0, this new role will implement constructivist learning as a facilitator to the student-centred classroom. (Jonassen, Peck & Wilson, 1999). Additionally, Siemens (2004, p.4) predicts that Primary Education will be a technologically-rich digital environment, promoting the development of connectivism strategies in learning. This individualised design interrelates with the autonomous characteristics of technology and education, and as McCombs (1989, p. 277) suggests, leads to learning success and achieving meaningful goals for both student and teacher. Furthermore, the professional development of teachers will be considered an essential factor in using technology to improve learning. (Rodriguez, 2000). The teacher model of 2020 embodies several characteristics which are governed by the impact of ICT in Primary Education.
