21st Century Learning and Teaching

This online project will start in September 2017 and finish in April 2018. The project is open to high school students and teachers from all over the world who believe in the power of global connections.Your students need to have communicative competence in English as all the assignments and communication will be conducted in English only.

Objectives

The objective of this project is for high school students and teachers to make international connections with peers and experts from all over the world and to improve their problem solving skills. As we all encounter problems every single day, it is important to know how to solve both easy and  complex problems. In this project, we aim to show our students how to define problems, how to generate evaluate, select and implement solutions. We believe that this skill will be one of the most important ones in the future workplaces.

Upon completion of this project, students will:

• develop an understanding of problem solving

• identify the skills to participate in problem solving

• better understand the SDG ( Sustainable Development Goals) and the challenges in achieving it

• improve their writing, speaking and ICT skills

• meet international students and become a part of a global community

• participate in thought provoking Skype conversations and self –reflection activities that challenge students to investigate global problems

• become competent users of ICT tools in education

• gain a factual knowledge on global problems

• learn to express themselves online

• be challenged to share the information they learn

Upon completion of this project, teachers will be able to:

• connect with educators in other schools
• build their knowledge to feel more confident to teach global content in their classrooms
• design a global learning experience
• develop activities around the SDGs
• improve their ICT skills

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/learning-path-for-professional-21st-century-learning-by-ict-practice/

Questioning existing hierarchies is necessary to create the wirearchies of the future where there is shared power and authority based on mutual trust. The dominant model needs to shift on the continuum, away from hierarchy, toward networks. Reverting to old, and simple, hierarchies removes us from our obligation as citizens to build a networked organizational model for society. It must be one in which tribes (families), institutions, and markets co-exist under the dominant umbrella of networks. Giving up our influence in networks by trusting institutional or market hierarchies is an abrogation of our democratic responsibilities. In the network era, we are the media and we are the experts, whether we like it or not.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Hierarchy

When a new push to reframe educator professional development occurs, teachers often ask:

How does the PD help with specific curriculum requirements and standards?
How does it trigger additional professional learning opportunities?
How does it help the students in our classrooms and community?
How does it contribute to connections with other educators?
A collaborative platform that facilitates resource discovery and best practices gives teachers ownership of their own professional development. As personal learning networks expand, teachers achieve more recognition in their school communities and beyond.

Teachers organically organize collaborative environments, often finding one another through one or a number of the hundreds of Twitter chats that occur in any given week, or in locally organized EdCamps that are taking place throughout the globe. Blogs, webinars and conferences are also fruitful environments where educators can share ideas with one another.

Educators are also already taking advantage of the flexibility of online and interactive professional development to interact with peers and design programs based on their own interests. So why not build upon inquiry already taking place through blogs, Twitter chats, digital badges, Slack channels and interactive platforms?

Ultimately, it’s about empowerment and self-discovery through the expansion of personal learning networks, and the ability to blend in voices, concepts and tools from all over the world.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/professional-development-why-educators-and-teachers-cant-catch-up-that-quickly-and-how-to-change-it/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/learning-to-learn-for-my-professional-development-i-did-it-my-way/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/education-collaboration-and-coaching-the-future/

Current teacher professional development strategies and how they can be leveraged to create a global PD plan.

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/a-holistic-view-of-what-will-influence-education-in-the-future/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/professional-development-why-educators-and-teachers-cant-catch-up-that-quickly-and-how-to-change-it/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/learning-to-learn-for-my-professional-development-i-did-it-my-way/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/education-collaboration-and-coaching-the-future/

USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers believe that some of the most complex technologies of our times, such as robotics or cognitive computing, can learn a thing or two from swarms of ants, pigeons and bacteria.

For starters, let’s look at ants. Drop some sugar on the floor and wait. Sooner or later, one or two straggling ants scoping the area will stumble upon it. What happens next is perhaps one of the most elaborate orchestrations of organized teamwork in nature.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=collective+intelligence

Identifying typical behaviour in a group is sometimes necessary in business rather than focusing on the personal traits of an individual

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=collaboration

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Collaboration