George Siemens talk: Changing schools, changing knowledge?

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Sometimes, I share with you some good talks about Education. I think it is important to hear specialists and discuss their ideas.

For Music in school education, Sir George Martin, for private schools vs. public schools Sir Ken Robinson, for games at school Jane McGonigal, for re-engaging students in learning, Ali Carr-Chellman, for the future of Education, Professor Noam Chomsky, for psychology and behavior,  Steven Pinker, for outdoor education, Richard Louv, for teachers and  "alternative" education programs into the mainstream,  Bill Gates or Sir Ken Robinson

Today, I would like to share George Siemens, Professor at Athabasca University (Canada), 

in a talk about changing schools, changing knowledge.

While more and more knowledge is available to us, the amount of time for us to pay attention to it remains the same. 

• What kind of knowledge will be needed in the future, and how are we going to be acquiring it? 

• How educational institutions are contending with these challenges.

These are some questions Professor George Siemens  answers.

Education:

Interesting, isn't it? Change knowledge needs and structures are influencing the development of new learning systems and models. And it is not easy. 
A good critical talk. He provides a critical evaluation of the testing/evaluation narrative in education and of the future of education.

As an educationalist, I think these kind of talks of innovative thinkers about different subjects touching Education are always very useful to us.

It's up to us reflect and reach some conclusions.

G-Souto

29.11.2013

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From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able

Graphic panel 

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Interesting graphic panel by Dr. Michael Wesch. Dr. Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of social media and digital technology on global culture. 

He demonstrate how important is to move our students from knowledge to knowledge-abe: find, analyse, criticise, even create new information and knowledge.

Listen  Dr. Wesch in TEDxKC in the video below:

TEDxKC talk synopsis: "Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. Yet these developments are not without disruption and peril. Familiar long-standing institutions, organizations and traditions disappear or transform beyond recognition. And while new media bring with them new possibilities for openness, transparency, engagement and participation, they also bring new possibilities for surveillance, manipulation, distraction and control. 

Critical thinking, the old mainstay of higher education, is no longer enough to prepare our youth for this world. 

We must create learning environments that inspire a way of being-in-the-world in which they can harness and leverage this new media environment as well as recognize and actively examine, question and even re-create the (increasingly digital) structures that shape our world."

And now a few ideas from the project that Prof. Wesch asked students: to see the world as they see it. Watch the video below:

As Dr. Wesch was saying on the first video, creativity happens all the time. 

"You are creative. Your creativity may be in deep sleep but it is there. Wake it up and put it to use."

Kevin Eikenberry

G-Souto

12.09.2011

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References:

Michael Wesch

http://ksuanth.weebly.com/wesch.html

Graphic panel: a suggestion from a friend, Buffy Gunter Hamilton (USA), on Facebook

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