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Chris Swift

Seven Skills Students Need for Their Future - 1 views

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  • Chris Swift on 20 Jan 13
     
    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 Someone makes a point in the comments. "Dr. Wagner states that "we have no idea how to teach or assess these skills." How about the idea of 'letting learners watch someone already possessing these skills, exercise these skills'....what happens if teachers can act like students - 'showing them how to gain the knowledge, using resources made available, from someone who possesses the knowledge already', rather than attempting to teach such knowledge.
César E. Concepción-Acevedo

Technological Determinism: Technological Autonomy - 0 views

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  • 'autonomy' is a key concept in Western liberalism
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      César E. Concepción-Acevedo on 03 Feb 13
       
      I dont think that the key concept unique to humans is autonomy, after all machines can execute autonomous comands and processes. However, i agree with Morin and Numann when they state that the uniqueness and essential diference of machines is humans is that the later can regenerate.
  • Referring to standardized human behaviour and to what he calls the 'invisible technology' of language as well as to machines, Postman argues that 'Technique, like any other technology, tends to function independently of the system it serves. It becomes autonomous, in the manner of a robot that no longer obeys its master' (Postman 1993, p. 142).
  • The Frankenstein Syndrome: One creates a machine for a particular and limited purpose. But once the machine is built, we discover, always to our surprise - that it has ideas of its own; that it is quite capable not only of changing our habits but... of changing our habits of mind' (Postman 1983, p. 23).
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  • they are 'always unpredictable'
  • The notion that technological developments arise to 'fill needs' is reflected in the myth that 'necessity is the mother of invention'. It presents technology as a benevolent servant of the human species. But as Carroll Purcell puts it, 'many modern "needs" are themselves inventions, the product of an economy that stimulates consumption so that it can make and market things for a profit' (Purcell 1994, p. 40).
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