21st Century Learning and Teaching

As a model for reframing methods and outcomes, design thinking reconnects educators to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers.

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Design student projects that hit the sweet spot -- relevant to real life, challenging enough to be interesting, and achievable for diverse learners.

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Orderly leadership meetings are pathetic and useless. Head-nodding sessions are exercises in futility that waste resources, talent, and time. Cancel them and do something productive. The spirit of ...

At Sammamish High School, we're developing and implementing a comprehensive problem-based learning program for all of our students. Working closely with my peers during this process has become one of

Do you have an innovative ICT-related research project? Win a possibility to showcase it in ICT 2013! 

Individual students or small groups (max 5) can submit ICT research projects to showcase at the ICT 2013 event in Vilnius.

The projects can be submited in 8 categories, which reflect the orientations of the ICT research in the next European research framework programme,Horizon 2020:

- New components and systems, low-power computing;

- Networking technologies, cloud computing;

- Smart personal environments, robotics;

- Technologies for content and information (new interfaces, big data, tools for creative content and media);

- ICT for societal challenges (health, security, sustainability, education, inclusion);

- Digital platforms and tools for collaboration ;

- Other innovative ICT research projects.

Deutschland A heißt der Gewinner der EU-Naturwissenschaftsolympiade, die in diesem Jahr erstmals in Luxemburg ausgetragen wurde. Gastgeber Luxemburg gewann eine Silber- und eine Bronzemedaille.

Teilnehmer an der Olympiade waren die besten jungen Forscher aus den Ländern der Europäischen Union, die jünger als 17 Jahre alt sind. Insgesamt beteiligen sich 132 Schüler aus 22 europäischen Ländern an der Veranstaltung, die unter der Schirmherrschaft von Erbgroßherzog Guillaume stand. Begleitet wurden die Teilnehmer von 85 Betreuern.

Conclusion

Even though these weeks were considered a maker education summer camp, there was an expectation from the school and parents that the learning activities incorporated the expectations and rigors of a classroom environment. I could easily identify cross-curricular state and common core standards even though I never taught to THE standards. Never during the sessions were the young learners formally testing, asked to be quiet or sit still, or asked to finish quickly so we can move on. Yet, I believe each of the kids would say that they learned lots . . . . and had fun doing so.

Young makers are more capable than what people (adults) typically believe.

Instead, the making learning activities were structured to honor natural ways of learning along with developmentally appropriate practices. Sadly, it appears that some of these natural ways of learning were “conditioned” out of the young learners through more formalized education as I identified in my observations.

Incorporating making into a learning environment teaches lifelong learning skills such of perseverance, love of learning, working with others, and embracing challenges.

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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/maker-space-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/coding-a-new-trend-in-education-and-a-big-responsibility/

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

Check out these important strategies for creating an inclusive learning space that also challenges students with rigorous thinking and projects.

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

Pushing students to go beyond what they think they can do is at the core of good teaching. Challenging tasks keep students engaged and curious to learn more, driving their learning to new depths.

This booklet highlights some of the many EU initiatives and co-funded research and innovation projects which address societal challenges through digital innovation, such as better healthcare, independent living for the elderly, delivering effective public services, energy saving, smart transport, secure internet, inclusion, preservation of cultural heritage.  

A showcase of policy actions and projects illustrates what role ICT plays in addressing societal challenges and how ICT research and innovation result in very practical applications that help improving quality of life, push productivity and competitiveness and lead to new opportunities for EU citizens and businesses.

Le Grand-Duché organisait pour la première fois l'Olympiade européenne des sciences naturelles cette semaine. Les lycéens luxembourgeois ont ramené une médaille de bronze et une d'argent.

A new report showcases some of the most important and difficult challenges of using education technology in today's classrooms.

The Challenges

Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession.

Teachers needs to be learning how to use the technology themselves, too. Where formal training lacks, professional development needs to step in, and does in many cases. But integrating the how-to of technology with the how-to of teaching needs to happen.

Read more in the article, a MUST!