Empowering teachers to meet the digital native learners
Fostering innovation
1. Fostering innovation in education
Hanna Teräs
IWBAS 2012
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2. Image: Paul Goyette
Innovation is to the 21st
century knowledge
economy what mass
production was to the
20th century...
...the central key to
success.
Or so they say.
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3. Information society: (Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Producing, handling
and transmitting
information has a
central role in
economy.
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4. Information society: (Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Producing, handling
and transmitting
information has a
central role in
economy. Knowledge society:
Innovations, renewal,
technological
development and
openness to new
ideas are in key role.
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5. General skills in a knowledge society (to name a few)
• Information literacy • Commitment to lifelong learning
• Communication skills • Initiative and responsibility
• Reflection • Intellectual curiosity
• Solving ill-defined problems • Multicultural competence
• Creativity • Self-direction
• Critical thinking • Leadership
Eg. Reeves 2006, Ruohotie 2005, Trilling & Fadel 2009...)
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6. WHOA! Hold on a
second...
How can these be
taught???
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7. They can’t.
These are skills that are
acquired when the learning
environment and working
methods support their
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acquisition.
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8. “Do we need to know this in the exam?”
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Levels of cognition
(Anderson & Krathwohl 2001)
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9. “Do we need to know this in the exam?”
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Levels of cognition
(Anderson & Krathwohl 2001)
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10. Something is missing?
What about volition, mental energy,
determination, willingness to work to
achieve a goal...
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