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Learning is fundamental to life. It is key to each individual's ability to connect with others and to participate fully in professional, cultural and civic l... 
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Learning is fundamental to life. It is key to each individual's ability to connect with others and to participate fully in professional, cultural and civic l...
Gust MEES's insight:
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The new WISE Publication, to be released in 2014, will focus on the link between new technologies and learning. Graham Brown-Martin, Founder of Learning Without Frontiers and Founder of Education Design Labs, will write the third WISE Book, which will be illustrated by the creative photography of award-winning photographer Newsha Tavakolian.
why [has] technology, to date, had very little impact on improved learning outcomes? This could be because we continue to use technology to reinforce 19th century teaching practice to meet out-dated assessment models.
Most of the world’s curriculum and assessment systems are based around fact recall rather than actually demonstrating that you have learned something and can deploy it within a problem-solving situation. Via Nik Peachey
Gust MEES's insight:
A key issue I believe is why [has] technology, to date, had very little impact on improved learning outcomes? This could be because we continue to use technology to reinforce 19th century teaching practice to meet out-dated assessment models. Most of the world’s curriculum and assessment systems are based around fact recall rather than actually demonstrating that you have learned something and can deploy it within a problem solving situation.
Given that in a connected society information is now at the fingertips of children, via smart phones for example, then perhaps it's fair to say that our education systems are anachronistic. We throw technology at classrooms and educational establishments but the institutions themselves and the way we teach have hardly changed, we just get 19th century results more quickly and cheaply. But is this what we want?
I said this since ages and no one believed me...
Will Stewart's comment,
September 6, 2013 3:17 AM
The technology is now good enough to allow us, finally, to move away from a one-size-fits-all model of education. Ranking students by their ability to pass exams has never been a sound educational model. It is even less relevant today but persists because it benefits institutions. Teachers, using the new technologies, can work with individual students, guiding and co-validating their learning.
54321ignition's curator insight,
September 20, 2013 6:59 AM
There's more to developing digital content than just repurposing existing textbooks |
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=WISE