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This panel session at the EDU-SUMMIT 2009 discusses the importance of knowledge micro-societies, evolving competencies, and ethics/values in education. The speaker highlights goals and actions for the future, including research on social learning, dynamic curriculum models, and character education.
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International Summit on ICT in EducationEDU-SUMMIT 2009 Working groups Panel Session June 11, 2009 Policy Perspective Ron Anderson, Emiritus Professor, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN, USA
‘What we know from research:’ Top 3 Points • Most learning takes place in knowledge micro-societies: families, groups, communities, collectivities • Important 21st Century Competencies will evolve exponentially compared to 20th Century • Survival to the 22nd Century will depend most upon our students’ learning of ethics and values, especially as related to use of ICT
‘Most important goals and objectives for the future’ • Development of theory and research on knowledge and learning in social contexts • Develop dynamic curriculum and assessment models (e.g., DoIT) and apply them to evolving faculty and student pathways • Identify areas of agreement and disagreement across cultures with respect to character education (ethics and values)
‘Actions on how to realize the goals/objectives’ • Sponsor research projects to compile best practices for teaching and learning knowledge in social contexts • Conduct research on exporting & scaling up exemplary models of dynamic curricula and assessment for the 21st Century; • Develop new measurement and research agendas regarding character education (ethics and values)