Photos du journal. Five Changes Every School Should Make. Innovación educativa en la universidad: ¿de qué estamos hablando? #innovaeduca13 | CUED. OpenEMIS v.2- UNESCO launches a new generic and open source Education Management Information System (EMIS) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | Open Educational Resources (OER)
What’s the Difference Between “Using Technology” and “Technology Integration”? Building soft skills: Why the business community wants to invest in preschoolers. A group of about 20 Christopher House preschoolers are sitting as quietly as they can in front of their teacher, Jill Peterson. She’s just asked them to put their fingers on their nose and is waiting for the group to settle down before dismissing them to play time. She reminds them what their options are today: at the art table, there’s clay. Because the class has been spending quite a bit of time talking about food, and cooking, she encourages the children to shape the clay into pretend food. But this isn’t just ordinary play. Allen Rosales is the school’s curriculum director. “What’s math knowledge if you can’t speak up, if you can’t have a perspective, if you can’t work as a group collaboratively?”
Still, as Rosales points out, those “soft” skills aren’t so soft because they’re difficult to develop. Hard skills are pretty self-explanatory: math, science and reading. Chicago businessman J.B. Traditionally, businesses have tended to focus their philanthropic efforts on K-12 education. Only open systems are effective for knowledge sharing | Harold Jarche | Educación a Distancia (EaD) POERUP country reports. ArtEForArt: RA en la Cátedra de Emprendedores de la USAL. Seminario. | Educación y nuevas tecnologías. Martin Hawksey - (M)OOC in a Box: Turning WordPress into an Open Course Reader #ocTEL | Open Educational Resources (OER)
Nick Sheppard - Libraries, OA research and OER: towards symbiosis? | Open Educational Resources (OER) Knowmads in Society 3.0. Remember nomads? In the pre-industrial age, nomads were people that moved with their livelihood (usually animal herding) instead of settling at a single location. Industrialization forced the settlement of many nomadic peoples… …but, something new is emerging in the 21st century: Knowmads. A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker –that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work. The coffee shop has become the workplace of choice for many knowmads. The remixing of places and social relationships is also impacting education. Who are these knowmads in Society 3.0? (To find out, click on the picture) Are you a knowmad?