EDUC9701

The Innovation Framework highlights four areas related to what and how students learn: 21st Century Skills & Standards Curriculum & the Learning Paradigm Assessment Innovative Uses of ICT How should a curriculum be designed, and how should students be assessed? How can student-directed learning be encouraged?   In most countries, school curricula and instruction are mostly didactic based on subject-based knowledge transmission and large amounts of rote learning. This ignores many skills that are increasingly necessary for life and work and often fails to engage students. Of course, schools implement and work according to national standards and other learning requirements, but they can also consider more effective teaching and learning strategies and encourage student-centered learning and assessment processes.4   Many innovative schools actively engage students in their learning and in the co-design of the learning process. There are a variety of ways of doing this, from the use of student councils to students as researchers within schools, to online student feedback on the quality of teaching and learning. Technology skills are crucial in the 21st Century skill set, but technology should play a bigger role in the transformation of learning practices. High-level ICT integration increases the possibility of personalizing learning processes, making learning accessible to students anytime and anywhere.

identify three clusters of approaches that differ on the most basic assumptions regarding the integration of ICT and education. These approaches live "side by side", largely ignoring each other and not engaging in any meaningful discussion.

they reflect three very different starting points and perspectives for viewing the "merger" of ICT and education.

three paradigms.

There has been a growing buzz around a recently coined phrase " Flipped Classroom". This term starts to take root in education as more and more educators are discovering it. So what is this all about and what are its advantages in learning and teaching? ( Awesome Infographic included below )

Flipped Classroom depends a lot on educational technology and web 2.0 tools such as podcasting and screencasting applications.

For educators, who are used to and use the didactic model, a framework is needed to assist them with the implementation of the Flipped Classroom.  In other words, the message to teachers to do what they want during classroom is not enough to make this transition.

"I would argue the classroom twenty years from now will be a space reconfigured and repurposed for different needs," he said. "No more 'tablet armchairs.' The classrooms may look more like living rooms. We're going to see classrooms moving away from lectures to a more collaborative environment, heavy on group projects. I could see a student's tools all contained on one device, sharing wirelessly on a common screen or with each other, device-to-device, and much more web-based." The devices they use will also continue to shrink. Students are already showing a preference for tablets and web-books over laptops. "The social web has enforced a powerful notion of collaborative knowledge creation," Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist and adjunct professor at Virginia's University of Mary Washington told Ars. "How can a classroom in this moment ignore the shape of the web?" he asked. His university is planning a pilot program to give 900 new students not just their own blogs, but a complete domain and space in which they will work, archive, sandbox, rant and play, and over which they have complete control.

"I would argue the classroom twenty years from now will be a space reconfigured and repurposed for different needs," he said. "No more 'tablet armchairs.' The classrooms may look more like living rooms. We're going to see classrooms moving away from lectures to a more collaborative environment, heavy on group projects. I could see a student's tools all contained on one device, sharing wirelessly on a common screen or with each other, device-to-device, and much more web-based." The devices they use will also continue to shrink. Students are already showing a preference for tablets and web-books over laptops. "The social web has enforced a powerful notion of collaborative knowledge creation," Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist and adjunct professor at Virginia's University of Mary Washington told Ars. "How can a classroom in this moment ignore the shape of the web?" he asked. His university is planning a pilot program to give 900 new students not just their own blogs, but a complete domain and space in which they will work, archive, sandbox, rant and play, and over which they have complete control.