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In 2007, The Report of the NEW Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce: Tough Choices or Tough Times made our nation hyperaware that "World market professionals are available in a wide range of fields for a fraction of what U.S. professionals charge." Guess what? While U.S. educators stuck learned heads in the sand, the world's citizens gained 21st century skills! Tough Choices spares no hard truth: "Our young adults score at “mediocre” levels on the best international measure of performance." Do you think it is an accident that the word "mediocre" is used? Let's see, I believe we saw it w-a-a-a-y back in 1983 when A Nation At Risk warned of a "tide of mediocrity." Tough Choices asks the hard question: "Will the world’s employers pick U.S. graduates when workers in Asia will work for much less? Then the question is answered. Our graduates will be chosen for global work "only if the U.S. worker can compete academically, exceed in creativity, learn quickly, and demonstrate a capacity to innovate." There they are

“Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."

Competence

Transferability

able to use those abilities “in a new occupational or educational environment

Digital Literacy, defined as “the ability to use information and communication technology (ICT) proficiently”.

non formal learning

the process of assessing and recognising a wide range of knowledge, know-how, skills and competences, which people develop throughout their lives within different environments”

OECD “Literacy” definition: “Literacy is concerned with the capacity of students to apply knowledge and skills in key subject areas and to analyse, reason and communicate effectively as they pose, solve and interpret problems in a variety of situations”

This is a key component of the Semantic Web because IPAs will make the intelligent connections between content, mapping relationships, and alerting users and systems to content that previously would not have been identified, or if recognized, would have been discovered accidentally by searching or user recommendation. The Web will essentially be building correlations between defend types of learning interaction regardless of whether the user is online.

The potential of the Semantic Web could actually revolutionize the learning experience. Roger Schank, who helped found the Learning Center at Carnegie Mellon University, designed a new methodology that eliminates classes, tests, lectures, and even programs themselves.

Schank argues the most effective way to teach new skills is to put learners in the kinds of situations in which they need to use those skills, and to provide mentors who help learners as and when they need it. Effective learners come to understand when, why, and how they should use skills and knowledge. They receive key just-in-time lessons, in such a way that learners will most likely remember the information later when they need it. In a Semantic Web context, learning would be continuously invigorated with the obvious benefits being an increase in the quality of content and the sophistication of student interactions.

The prospect of applying semantic concepts to learning administration as well as direct pedagogy could offer benefits to the institution and the learner.

educational organizations should keep data secure while addressing issues around open access, though in principle the way would be clear to integrate systems across intranets and extranets.

Government agencies and lawmakers need to engender the broad necessity and the vision as well as provide adequate support and development mechanisms for those institutions and innovators wishing to further semantic applications within e-learning. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the learners and tutors must embrace the new opportunities and pedagogical frontiers that a web of meaning could ultimately deliver.

puede generar desigualdades económicas y sociales

nivel socioeconómico más elevado tienden a apropiarse de la información a una velocidad más rápida que los del nivel más bajo

Además de habilidades para leer y escribir (en muchos casos en inglés), [se] requiere cierta capacidad para buscar información, procesarla y utilizarla

habilidades digitales” (digital skills o e-skills) necesarias para vivir y trabajar en sociedades caracterizadas por la importancia creciente de la información y el conocimiento, lo que se denomina como digital literacy”

existe una relación positiva entre el capital humano de una persona y su uso privado del ordenador e Internet

OCDE haya anunciado que en su prueba de PISA de este año incluirá todo un apartado relacionado con el desempeño en el uso de las tecnologías

iremos avanzando a una sociedad que presta más atención a la creatividad y la innovación.