Keynote presentation - Dr Tarek Shawki, Director of the Regional Bureau for Science in the Arab States, UNESCO.

Dr Tarek Shawki, Director of the Regional Bureau for Science in the Arab States, UNESCO delivered the third keynote presentation at the Learning and Technology World Forum. [via www.latwf.org]

Strategies to Promote the Development of E-competencies in the Next Generation of Professionals: European and International Trends (∗)

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Prensky:

+ “ [Concerning] The link between technology and pedagogy, particularly in the old pedagogy …[I think] technology doesn’t help. It hinders”.

+ “The point is before that you can take advantage of the technology you have to change the pedagogy and we haven’t focus on that”

[vía maffronti]

Two days ago in Belgium was the European e-Skills 2009 Conference: Fostering ICT Professionalism. The European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee organized this event in partnership with the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies.

www.eskills-pro.eu

In the website of this event several interesting resources can be found. I would like to highlight two images presented there by Microsoft (excerpt from The Value of Certification, pdf).

Both images remark the relevance of combining different strategies to acquire skills. The first one illustrates how the Skills Development is the result of training (learning-by-doing) and the certification of those skills (provided by traditional educational institutions: schools, universities, etc.). Personally, I ‘m afraid that there are several traditional educational systems that just focus on the second aspect: certification, prioritizing the certificate rather than the learning process and the acquisition of competencies. What do employers think about this?

The second image offers a diagram of different schemes to validate the acquisition of experience, skills and knowledge. As can be seen there are different schemes highlighted to combine experience and certification. Where the ideal alternative should integrate performances and experiences to validate the certification and not the other way around, where certification [diploma or other] is what matters regardless the knowledge and experiences of the individual.

[From: literacyispriceless.wordpress]

CyberSociety 2009: “The renewed scientific interest aroused by the application of ICT in different areas of research and knowledge provides an opportunity to share and disseminate best practices in the field of study that has become the Internet. However, the most creative, the most irreverent proposals come from beyond the academy, demonstrating that in the digital world, open innovation is most fertile when placed at the margins between disciplines, collectives, and specialties, both within and outside the university ? on the streets, in schools, businesses, cities, and institutions“.

+ In the Work Group E-40 Digital skills at workplace,
I would like to share my post:
21 century literacies and OECD.
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Video Excerpts:
+ The best way of learn information is to spaced the review of information over increasing amounts of times.
+ The best way of learn something is just remember it before you will be likely to forget it (latter memory).

“The results suggest, Pashler said, the optimal amount of time over which learning should take place depends upon how long the information needs to be retained: “If you want to remember information for just a week, it is probably best if study sessions are spaced out over a day or two. On the other hand, if you want to remember information for a year, it is best for learning to be spaced out over about a month.” (Nicholas Cepeda of York University and UC San Diego, Doug Rohrer of the University of South Florida, and Edward Vul of UC San Diego and MIT., by University of California, 2008).

Considering this perspectives, When should we learn? How often should we learn and remember? How to identify which one is the critique information that we have to acquire? Finally, it brings us to think in the informal learning as an appropriate way to acquire knowledge and even more relevant: develop an adaptive learning capabilities.
Which technologies help us to do so?

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1. Education Futures.

2. http://www.helikon.nl

I’ve founded a great conceptual map developed by Maria H. Andersen which includes a well developed web of key concepts as: life long learning; 21st century skills, and others a bit more provocative as: “hacking our curriculum“. Andersen’s work it’s a great complement of our “conceptual spider” based on the e-skills concept (MindMap).
From: teachingcollegemath.com