How should instructors prepare students to work in the technological world of the 21st century?
Answer: Focus on the 7 Survival Skills
What is "the global achievement gap?
...(it) is the gap between what even our best... schools are teaching and testing versus what all students will need to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens in today‟s global knowledge economy." (p. 8) "Moving between these two worlds [education and business], I have come to understand that there is a core set of survival skills for today's workplace, as well as for lifelong learning and active citizenship – skills that are neither taught nor tested in even our best school systems." (p. 14) Tony Wagner: The Global Achievement Gap |
The 7 Survival Skills:# 1) critical thinking and problem-solving
# 2) collaboration across networks and leading by influence # 3) agility and adaptability # 4) initiative and entrepreneurialism # 5) effective oral and written communication # 6) accessing and analyzing information # 7) curiosity and imagination. |
What Is Information & Communication Technology (ICT), and why is it important?
ICT education teaches knowledge and skills around computing and communications devices, software that operates them, applications that run on them and systems that are built with them.
Five Dimensions of ICT Education:
http://www.mpict.org/ict_education_defined_importance.html
Five Dimensions of ICT Education:
- ICT or Digital Literacy – everyone needs a basic understanding of ICT and how to make productive use of it, to be good students, workers and citizens.
- ICT competencies are increasingly important to almost all employees, regardless of their position.
- “In the 21st century, an ability to work with information and communication technologies is becoming as essential to education, life and workplace success as 'reading, writing and arithmetic'.”
- ICT Digital Literacy should be taught to and accessible to all students.
- Competencies are actionable, teachable and able to accessible - a definition of what people need to know and be able to do to be “digitally literate.”
http://www.mpict.org/ict_education_defined_importance.html