IDEN : Democratic Schools : Worldwide List. Minimally invasive education. Minimally invasive education (MIE) is a form of learning in which children operate in unsupervised environments. The methodology arose from an experiment done by Sugata Mitra while at NIIT in 1999, often called The Hole in the Wall,[1][2] which has since gone on to become a significant project with the formation of Hole in the Wall Education Limited (HiWEL), a cooperative effort between NIIT and the International Finance Corporation, employed in some 300 'learning stations', covering some 300,000 children in India and several African countries.
The programme has been feted with the digital opportunity award by WITSA,[2] and been extensively covered in the media. History[edit] Background[edit] Professor Mitra, Chief Scientist at NIIT, is credited with proposing and initiating the Hole-in-the-Wall programme. As early as 1982, he had been toying with the idea of unsupervised learning and computers. The experiment[edit] Results[edit] Current status and expansion outside India[edit] HiWEL[edit] Seven Skills Students Need for Their Future. There are two major trends in the world that pose a fundamental challenge--and many opportunities--to our educational system. One is the world is shifting from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy. The other is the rising generation--brought up on the Internet--is very differently motivated to learn.
These two forces, argues Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group, compel us to reconceptualize education in this country. In his thoughtful analysis of future industry needs and education readiness studies, Dr. Wagner has identified what he calls a "global achievement gap," which is the leap between what even our best schools are teaching, and the must-have skills of the future: Critical thinking and problem-solving Collaboration across networks and leading by influence Agility and adaptability Initiative and entrepreneurialism Effective oral and written communication Accessing and analyzing information Curiosity and imagination Dr. Author: Heather Singmaster. The future of business education will be centered on contextual learning. Earlier this year I gave the opening keynote at the Thought Leadership Forum on The Virtual University, which examined the future of business education.
The event organizers, the Centre for Accounting, Governance, and Sustainability and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia, have now released a book The Virtual University: Impact on Australian Accounting and Business Education based on the conference proceedings. The opening chapter in the book was generated from a transcript of my keynote. If you are interested you can read the full article online: Global Social and Technology Trends Shaping the Future of Universities. One of the points I make is about the shift to highly contextual and modular learning: In the past people went to university, studied until they had a degree, then went to work and applied that knowledge.
How Gen Y Learns. Gen Y, those in their twenties now, are born of bits and bytes. They hardly read. They watch play computer games, watch movies on the Internet, have made YouTube their favorite destination. This generation is the one that will redefine learning. And because of them book-based learning, lectures, stand-up teaching, grades, honor rolls, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20th century will fade away faster than we image. As I travel around the world I see cheap Internet access everywhere.
Mobile data plans are getting more and more affordable and a data-enabled Sim card costs just a few dollars. Every young traveler has at a minimum a smart phone and often also has a laptop or tablet as well. But my four or five star business hotel still charges way too much for slow Internet access – mainly because people my age don’t demand it as these younger folks do. Only Baby Boomers and Gen X would tolerate that. Classrooms are boxes – they close you in, contain you, limit and control. Singapore school engages students with game-based learning. Education IT By Medha Basu | 14 October 2013 | Views: 3979 Canberra Primary School (about 2000 students) in Singapore has revamped its virtual learning environment, applying game-based learning and providing an experiential platform for students to collaborate and engage with each other.
Sam Wong, Principal of Canberra Primary School, shares, “The 4 Dimensional Immersive (4Di) programme harnesses technology to make learning fun. Education is still the goal of the system. It is about finding delight in knowledge and about students creating and owning content.” The school is part of the FutureSchools@Singapore programme, a collaborative effort between Ministry of Education and Infocomm Development Authority to leverage ICT to enable innovative educational programmes and efficient administrative practices.
The revamped 4Di setup at the school features projections of virtual worlds on 14 screens, creating a 360-degree, 42 square metre interactive touch screen.
Lessons on education from Singapore | Michael Barber. The teenagers anxiously opening their GCSE results on Thursday will be wondering whether they might be among the last to do so. The future of GCSEs is in doubt, as we wait to see how the government moves forward with exam reform and who prevails in the coalition struggle over education policy. We know that the education secretary, Michael Gove, is impressed by Singapore's education system, and there is indeed much to admire. In Singapore, 15-year-olds are 10 months ahead of those in the UK in English.
They are 20 months ahead in maths. South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Shanghai match Singapore's performance. So we most definitely have something to learn from Pacific Asia. The question is what? Eastern cultures have valued education for centuries: the belief is that diligence will be rewarded. Eastern governments do likewise. But at the very moment when Gove is looking east, the east is looking west.
They see that mastery of the basics, while essential, is not enough.