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15-10-10, 10:59
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21st Century Education in Canada
Video from New Brunswick, Canada: 21st Century Education in Canada
Watch, weep and discuss. The parallels with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence are described as 'striking' and the post links to the Glow Futures Forum.
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15-10-10, 16:55
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A very slick presentation. However, it overlooks something fundamental and that is the fact that people's brains are not pieces of technology and do not 'advance 20,000 years in a century' (or whatever they said).
Having become a student again - long-distance part-time - I do use the internet a lot but nothing has yet replaced books. The way that we obtain access to knowledge may, probably will, change, probably considerably. Being able to hook up to a class on a worldwide basis will be - is - excellent. I actually did a short course on Viking Life from Gotland University a few years ago and even though we had to type our seminar discussion, it worked quite well. Once video-conferencing technology is improved (far too many glitches at present), it will all become even better. Some folk like Kindle-style reading. I don't. It is probably a generational thing. But - pupils (I do hate school kids being called students!! Grrr. Rant.) have not really changed. They are excellent at the technical side, seeming to absorb it with mother's milk, almost. They are also given vastly more opportunities to see and do things far removed from the dry air of the classroom. Provided, of course, that they live in the 'western' world, which offers all these things and that their place of learning is up to date... They are not, however, any more intelligent. The sad thing is that, with this rush to technology, the human factor seems to have been left out. I actually saw some children playing in a street in Kirriemuir the other evening. It was quite heart-warming! I think that what I am really trying to say is, that when you cut out all the b.s. that was so vaunted in that video, we, i.e. families, children, have not changed although our knowledge has increased greatly, in which I include knowledge available to us as well as what we have learned. None of this seems to be making us happier people or better people. So I shall also shed a tear....
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15-10-10, 18:03
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The presentation reminds me of why I was taken in by the CfE spin at first. Apart from the glaringly obvious fact that you don't need a system of compulsory education to do any of it
 what is not to like?Look and see what they actually have to assess and record and I bet you'll find something very similar to Cfe's experiences and outcomes  Teachers think Glow is crap btw 
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02-11-10, 10:31
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Leaving School
That video clip highlights the need for children to learn the skills how to learn rather than rely on learning any particular body of knowledge (read National Curriculum).
It also points out how technology can help, most important of all though are the L21 skills listed at the end - creativity and innovation. I totally agree with the statement that education for the future needs to be personalised. The problem is trying to put that into practise in schools. I imagine it will not be done well. Schools are so slow to change that they hardly change at all. That is why after 25 years teaching in schools, I am going to be taking myself and my children out of school!
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