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Blair Peterson

Global Competence: The Knowledge and Skills Our Students Need | Asia Society - 0 views

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competence global Curriculum CurriculumFramework future

shared by Blair Peterson on 19 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Missing in this formula for a world-class education is an urgent call for schools to produce students that actually know something about the world--its cultures, languages and how its economic, environmental and social systems work. 
  • Global competence starts by being aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world and how it works. 
  • Globally competent students recognize that they have a particular perspective, and that others may or may not share it. 
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  • Globally competent students understand that audiences differ on the basis of culture, geography, faith, ideology, wealth, and other factors and that they may perceive different meanings from the same information. 
  • What skills and knowledge will it take to go from learning about the world to making a difference in the world?
  • Globally competent students see themselves as players, not bystanders. 
  • Global competence requires that the capacities described above be both applied within academic disciplines and contextualized within each discipline's methods of inquiry and production of knowledge.
  • Blair Peterson on 19 Feb 11
     
    The focus of this article is not technology. It's on global competence. 
Blair Peterson

How to Get a Job - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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21stcentury Graded21c sharedvision Networked Learning Tony Wagner

shared by Blair Peterson on 30 May 13 - No Cached
  • ony Wagner that the world doesn’t care anymore what you know; all it cares “is what you can do with what you know.”
  • And they increasingly don’t care how those skills were acquired: home schooling, an online university, a massive open online course, or Yale. They just want to know one thing: Can you add value?
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      Blair Peterson on 30 May 13
       
      Can this really be true? How long will it take for this to become the prevailing thought?
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  • A degree document is no longer a proxy for the competency employers need.” Too many of the “skills you need in the workplace today are not being taught by colleges.”
  • Added Sharef: “What surprises me most about people’s skills is how poor their writing and grammar are, even for college graduates.
  • ireArt sees many talented people who are just “confused about what jobs they are qualified for, what jobs are out there and where they fit in.”
  • We gave her a very rigorous test, and she outscored people who had gone to Stanford and Harvard. She ended up as a top applicant for a job that, on paper, she was completely unqualified for.”
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 30 May 13
       
      Excel, really? Couldn't they have come up with a better example than this?
  • he most successful job candidates, she added, are “inventors and solution-finders,” who are relentlessly “entrepreneurial” because they understand that many employers today don’t care about your résumé, degree or how you got your knowledge, but only what you can do and what you can continuously reinvent yourself to do.
Blair Peterson

The Rise Of Multicultural Managers - Forbes - 0 views

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Mission Intercultural Competence TCK TCKs Third Culture Kids

shared by Blair Peterson on 09 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • In short, their ability to be creative, to share complex knowledge across locations, contexts and cultures and to manage global innovation and product development teams effectively is precisely why multiculturals in integrative roles in the innovation process do make such a positive difference.
  • In addition, they identified intercultural, cognitive integration (one’s ability to simultaneously hold and apply several culturally different schemas and thus to think as a member of one culture or another depending on need and context, or to think simultaneously as member of several cultures) as the key to creative, adaptive and leadership skills fostering their career success. As one of the managers Hae-Jung Hong interviewed put it:
  • The most important skill I need in order to develop and launch this product line successfully is to exploit what I’ve got from one part to other parts of the world, which brings something innovative in the market. I am able to do this because I have references in different languages— English, Hindi, and French. I read books in three different languages, meet people from different countries, eat food from different countries, and so on. I cannot think things in one way only. That’s not my way.
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  •  “Multiculturals have a kind of gymnastic intellectual training to think as if they were French, American, or Chinese and all together inside them.”
  • The experience of living in multiple cultures obviously helps, but just “being there” is not enough. One needs to have strong on-going interaction with people belonging to the local culture, and become embedded in the local culture. Expatriate “villages” will not suffice.
Blair Peterson

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - Technology - T... - 0 views

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21stcentury sharedvision Tools thinking assessment videogames

shared by Blair Peterson on 10 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • new methods to measure skills like critical thinking, creativity, and persistence.
  • "A lot of important stuff happens when playing games," Ms. Shute said. "You're just doing. You're in the process."
  • "Wouldn't it be lovely to actually pass along the log files of what students did in order to look at their scientific-inquiry skills?"
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  • She looks first to the core competencies—critical thinking, empathy, persistence—that she wants to test, then breaks them down into smaller goals
  • student's grasp of systems thinking—understanding the complex relationships among parts of a whole—might ask players to complete tasks that show information gathering, developing hypotheses, and tracing causal relationships.
  • If instructors know where students need the most help, they can quickly tweak their courses—and their games
  • Taiga Park requires players to look for the cause of a widespread fish die-off in a virtual river by "interviewing" park rangers, environmental scientists, and the owners of a logging company. While students learn about pH levels and runoff, they also come away with lessons on data analysis, complex cause-and-effect relationships, and communication.
  • found that she could use routine assignments—like peer reviews and summaries of research material—to analyze her students' higher-order thinking skills. All assignments can be linked back to a larger skill, she says. "Evidence is everywhere."
  • Blair Peterson on 10 Nov 10
     
    Using video games for learning and assessing student learning.
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