Some ten years into the 21st century, I find it amazing that we are still having conversations on what skills are necessary to succeed in this new century. We’ve explored some ideas of what skills are relevant before (see this, this, this, and this, for example), and there appears to be a general consensus that there are needs for skills development in creativity, innovation, smart use of ICTs, and social leadership.
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Exploring education futures at TEDxLaguna
6/25/2010
Photo by Cristóbal Cobo On Monday, I participated in TEDxLaguna, the second TEDx event ever held in Mexico. I called for “leapfrogging toward Knowmad Society” (video coming soon). Also, Cristóbal Cobo shared an overview and invitation to join our Invisible Learning collaboration. I believe the event was a great success, and I am pleased to [...]
Thank you!
11/5/2008
The e-competencies conference is over –and, by all measures, it seems to be a resounding success! Many, many thanks go to Cristóbal Cobo and Jutta Treviranus for the co-organization of the event. I am particularly grateful for our amazing participants. A few of their presentations are already online: Martín Parselis (Video) [UCA] Guillermo Lutzky (Video) [...]
E-Competencies conference today!
10/31/2008
The E-Competencies conference is taking place in Mexico City today. Not in Mexico? No worries! You can watch online: http://www.mogulus.com/ecompetencias_en The program is available at: e-competencies.org You can also follow the conference via Twitter: @ecompetencies
The (almost) final e-competencies program
10/25/2008
The FLACSO-México, University of Minnesota, and University of Toronto collaborative conference/seminar on E-competencies for the 21st and 22nd centuries will take place this Friday. We have a tremendous list of speakers, and if you are not able to participate in person, we hope that you will be able to join us virtually. The event will [...]
Preliminary e-competencies program
10/7/2008
The preliminary program for the upcoming e-competencies event on October 31 in Mexico City is now available! Although this is likely to change a lot, I want to share it immediately to highlight the excellent minds (from nine countries) that will be joining us!
E-Competencies deadline this Friday
9/22/2008
This is just a reminder that the submission deadline to participate in this FLACSO-México, University of Minnesota and University of Toronto co-organized event on e-competencies and e-skills is coming up this Friday (September 26). Participants can join in person or virtually, and need not present to join the event (although presentations are encouraged!). We [...]
E-competencies: Building human capital for the 22nd century
8/22/2008
Upcoming event: October 31, 2008 Mexico City, Mexico Conference website: www.e-competencies.org The Knowledge Society demands that we leapfrog ahead in our education systems, build a new digital literacy, and improve soft skills (creativity, innovation, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking, among others) that could help all 21st century citizens become productive, effective knowledge workers. Educators, policymakers, [...]
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Photo by Cristóbal Cobo On Monday, I participated in TEDxLaguna, the second TEDx event ever held in Mexico. I called for “leapfrogging toward Knowmad Society” (video coming soon). Also, Cristóbal Cobo shared an overview and invitation to join our Invisible Learning collaboration. I believe the event was a great success, and I am pleased to [...]
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On Monday, May 14, at 1pm (U.S. Central Time) the Invisible Learning project will host an open webinar with Juan Miguel Muñoz (Barcelona, Spain). This is not a conference, but an opportunity to converse, and exchange ideas and viewpoints in an open forum. (For this event, the operating language will be mostly in Spanish.) For [...]
The Bank of Common Knowledge: A mutual education network
The Bank of Common Knowledge (Banco Común de Conocimientos) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how [...]
Jean Piaget on creativity and innovation in education
Piaget: “We can classify education into two main categories: passive education relying primarily on memory, and active education relying on intelligent understanding and discovery. Our real problem is what is the goal of education? Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative [...]
E-Competencies deadline this Friday
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