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Kerry J

What is 'competence' and how should education incorporate new technology's tools to gen... - 3 views

isites.harvard.edu/...Haste_Tech_Civic.pdf

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shared by Kerry J on 17 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Kerry J on 17 Mar 15
     
    This paper addresses the competences needed in 21st century life especially in relation to civic participation, and the educational requirements to foster them in young people. New technologies are widely used by young people for informal social interaction, video game-playing and giving voice to their views. Incorporation of these practices into the classroom has been fairly slow, despite their manifest potential for promoting agency and civic engagement. The paper argues that this is in part due to the need for a cultural shift in education to accommodate them. Currently, many competences young people will need for the future world of interactive technology and 'bottom-up' information, communication and democracy are mainly being developed through informal practices. These competences, which include adaptability, managing ambiguity, and agency are discussed in relation to civic participation. 
Rhondda Powling

Citizens in the Making: Inspiring Students to Engage in Transformative Civic Learning |... - 2 views

connectedlearning.tv/-transformative-civic-learning

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 06 May 14 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 06 May 14
     
    The question: How can teachers help prepare students for success not only in college and career settings, but in 21st-century civic life as well? 6 educators discuss this question. Links to resources mentioned, video and a pdf of the discussion. Further discussion is encouraged by using/following #connectedlearning
Rhondda Powling

May 2015: Literacies for the digital age: Civic and global literacy - DEN Blog Network - 2 views

blog.discoveryeducation.com/...civicgloballiteracy

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 04 May 15 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 04 May 15
     
    "In this post Kathy Schrock provides the reader with some ideas on how to infuse civic and global skills into the curriculum."
Kerry J

Digital Media and Learning Research Hub (MacArthur Foundation) - 1 views

dmlhub.net

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shared by Kerry J on 28 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Kerry J on 28 Apr 15
     
    " We investigate the ways in which digital technology is changing learning environments, social and civic institutions, and youth culture. We work to support the growth of the emerging digital media and learning field and community. We spread thought leadership and best practices for next generation learning and civics. How we do it Carry out an extensive agenda of original research Provide a gathering place for those interested in new models of learning Host a weekly webinar series  Produce blogs, websites, a report series, other publications Hold an annual conference Support emerging scholars by sponsoring workshops, working groups and a weeklong summer institute Partner with like-minded research organizations and individuals"
Tony Searl

t r u t h o u t | Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken O... - 5 views

www.truth-out.org/eing-taken-over-mega-rich65363

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shared by Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Not only does she not have any experience in education and is totally unqualified for the job, but her background mimics the worst of elite arrogance and unaccountable power
  • For Freire, pedagogy was central to a formative culture that makes both critical consciousness and social action possible
  • pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy
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  • ffering a way of thinking beyond the seeming naturalness or inevitability of the current state of things, challenging assumptions validated by "common sense," soaring beyond the immediate confines of one's experiences, entering into a dialogue with history and imagining a future that would not merely reproduce the present.
  • Giving students the opportunity to be problem posers and engage in a culture of questioning in the classroom foregrounds the crucial issue of who has control over the conditions of learning, and how specific modes of knowledge, identities and authority are constructed within particular sets of classroom relations.
  • Paulo strongly believed that democracy could not last without the formative culture that made it possible. Educational sites both within schools and the broader culture represented some of the most important venues through which to affirm public values, support a critical citizenry and resist those who would deny the empowering functions of teaching and learning.
  • Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10
     
    There is little interest in understanding the pedagogical foundation of higher education as a deeply civic and political project that provides the conditions for individual autonomy and takes liberation and the practice of freedom as a collective goal
Grace Kat

Civics | Online Interactives - 4 views

www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/...default.asp

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shared by Grace Kat on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Grace Kat on 26 Apr 10
     
    Primary to Secondary
Ruth Howard

Activate! | Overview - 1 views

activategames.org/overview.html

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shared by Ruth Howard on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 16 Jun 11
     
    Activate encourages games that can change civic and ecological outcomes in real world ( problem solving) and teach how to create those games also.
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