How is Technology Changing the Education System

SITES 2006 - http://www.iea.nl/sites20060.html
Eurydice - Key Data on Learning and Innovation through ICT at School in Europe 2011
Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)

International Indicators

• Limited scope
• Limited participation
• Not regularly offered

How can we harness ICT in the classroom?
- bridging real life situations into symbolic representations
- structure thinking; capture students' thinking; metacognition; scaffold thinking e.g. giving tools to help students to structure their thinking
- record/archive students' learning

TPACK
The need to see the connections in the 3 domains. Technology is ever-changing.

21st Century Skills
Levy & Murnane (2005)
- Manual skills automated
- Simple cognitive skills replaced by computers
- Increased need for complex cognitive skills

American Management Association (AMA) 2010 - survey of 2000 employers
Employers looking for:
- critical thinking (75%)
- communication skills (80%)
- collaboration and team skills (65%)
- creativity and innovation (65%)