This document provides an overview of 5 topics related to 21st century skills in technology and education: 1) the knowledge society agenda, 2) the pervasiveness of technology, 3) the goals of education for all, 4) future strategic objectives, and 5) teacher professional development relating to ICT. It discusses how knowledge and information differ, the importance of integrating ICT, and educators' views on technology. It also examines how technology has become pervasive in daily life and considers the gains and losses of technology use in education. Additionally, it outlines specific goals of education for all like promoting economic growth, empowering women, strengthening democracy, fighting HIV/AIDS, and ending poverty. Finally, it discusses strategic plans, values

1. Professional Studies 3A
21st Century skills in
Technology and
Education
Assignment 1 of
Shanleigh Anne Brough
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2. Introduction of
what's to come.
 In this presentation I will be focusing on
the following 5 topics:
1. Knowledge Society agenda.
2. Pervasiveness of technology.
3. The Goals of “Education For All”
4. The future strategic objectives
5. Professional development of teachers relating to ICT’S and professional
aptitude.
Within these topics I have carefully selected themes that I feel are
the most important within the context. And topics that I believe
need to be expressed in more detail.
***Enjoy***

3. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda.

4. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda.
 The information provided for this topic comes from the
reading of:
 Being a Teacher,in the Knowledge Society
Prof. Bernard CORNU
(INRP, CNED-EIFAD, France)
 I will be focusing on, What Knowledge is?
 What Information is?
 Why we should integrate the ICT.
 And how educators feel about ICT

5. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda.
 What is Knowledge?
 Knowledge is the output of the reconstructionof
information by a person, according to his/her history
and context.It depends on the person.
 What is Knowledge society?
 A human society, in which knowledge should bring justice,
solidarity, democracy, peace... A society in which knowledge could
be a force for changing society. A society which should provide
universal and equitable access to information (UNESCO).

6. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda.
 What is Information?
 Information can be classified as Facts, comments, opinions,expressed
through words, images, sounds.It can be stored and circulated.
 What is Information society?
 A society in which information is a good that one can exchange, buy,
sell, store, transport, process. The society of the digital divide.

7. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda.
Why should we integrate the ICT.

8. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda.
 To learn to know about ICT and Knowledge as
well as how to access Knowledge.
 To Learn to do New capacities through ICT.
 To Learn to live together through the New era of
communication, the « e-citizen »
 To Learn to be in the knowledge society and
improve personal development.

9. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda
How educators feel about ICT
 Educators want not only an Information Society, but a
Knowledge Society, enabling all children and all people
to access Knowledge and to benefit from being
educated.

10. 1. Knowledge Society
Agenda
 How educators feel about ICT
 Education is a key issue in the Knowledge Society,
and Educators have a major mission.
 Particularly, it is the responsibility of all educators
and decision-makers around the world to help
developing countries take part in the developments
of ICT in Education.

11. 2. Pervasiveness of technology.

12. 2. Pervasiveness of technology.
 The reading below is an example of how we rely on
technology on a regular daily basis.
 Get up. Turn off the digital alarm clock. Hit the switch on the
automatic coffee maker. Turn on the morning news. Shower,
then use an electric toothbrush. Take coffee on drive to work
in a new car with a U2 CD in the CD player. Stop by to get
money from an ATM. Work all day on computer, while
listening to iPod (except when the phone rings or the fax
machine indicates an incoming fax). Stop by store on the way
home to rent a video and to pay for groceries with a debit
card. Relax with a movie, TV dinner, and microwave
popcorn. Call Mom on the cell phone before bed.

13. 2. Pervasiveness of technology.
 Gains and losses through Technology.
 If you think about what you do every day that involves technology, the list is both
amazing and worrisome.
 Some educators and researchers believe that the efficiencies that technology
provides us benefit us in all kinds of ways. While other teachers are concerned that
technology’s invasive, destructive, and dissocializing nature is leading us to trouble.
 I feel we should look at an example from an education point of view. When students
read from the screen instead of from a hard copy of a book, what are the gains
and losses? What about when they take classes online instead of face to face? Or
when they use Internet resources instead of those from the library? If technology
users carefully consider both the advantages and shortcomings of technology use,
they are more likely to maximize the gains and minimize the losses.

14. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”

15. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
 There are 5 goals I will be focusing on and
discussing in detail about where and how education
can help us all and play a role in a better tomorrow.
a. Promote Economic growth
b. Empower Woman
c. Strengthen Democracy
d. Fight HIV & Aids
e. End poverty.

16. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
a. Promote Economic growth
 Youth and Education. Discovered itwe will support free markets and free
trade to unleash the power of the private sector to promote economic growth
and prosperity ...(FY 2007-2012 Department of State and USAID Strategic Plan, Bureau of Resource
Management, May 2007)
 The "World Economic Development Declaration" (The Zhuhai Declaration)
points out: Education and skill development must be promoted for all
people, no matter where they come from and regardless of their race, sex and
income level, to eradicate illiteracy and ignorance. Human resources should
be vigorously developed to facilitate economic development. (By Xue Lan, Professor
and Vice-president of School of Public Policy Management, Tsinghua University)
 Education plays an important basic role in the respects of HR training,
intellectual innovation and dissemination and promotion of the intellectual
application, as a result human resources plays a driving force to the economic
increase.

17. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
b. Empower Woman

18. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
b. Empower Woman

19.  Below is an extract of a real life story, proving how democracy can strengthen
through education.
 The reading is from :Noxolo Mgudlwa – Idasa (South Africa)
 Ignas Kleden – KID (Indonesia)
 In his opening presentation, Ignas Kleden explained the history and
work of the Indonesia Community for Democracy (KID) and its
schools for democracy. It has five locations throughout the
Indonesian Archipelago, including three new schools; the rationale
of the schools is that optimum democracy equals a high quality of
participation and quality of discourse; the schools’ content includes
knowledge, values, and skills; the methodology is carried out both
in class and out of class; participants represent business, civil society
organizations, political parties, and government bureaucracies,
and women comprise 30 percent; there are nine modules; there
are some 400 alumni of the schools, a number of whom were
elected to local parliaments in the 2009 election at the district level;
and the main strategy is to reform from below to strengthen
democracy in the country.
3. The Goals of “Education For All”
c. Strengthen Democracy

20. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
d. Fight HIV & Aids
 The most common place for people to learn about HIV and AIDS is at school.
 Due to their capacity and universality, schools are a crucial setting for educating young
people about AIDS.8
 As young people are at a high risk of becoming infected with HIV, it is vital that they are
educated about HIV transmission before they are exposed to situations that put them at
risk of HIV infection (for example, before they are sexually active).
 Schools play a major role in shaping the attitudes, opinions and behaviour of young
people and so are ideal environments for teaching the social as well as the biological
aspects of HIV and AIDS.
 (Dr Peter Piot, former UNAIDS Executive Director)

21. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
e. End poverty.

22. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
e. End poverty.
 Investing in education is the single most
effective means of reducing poverty.
 Education is more than reading, writing,
and arithmetic. It is one of the most
important investments a country can
make in its people and its future and is
critical to reducing poverty and
inequality.

23. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
e. End poverty.
The following indicates ways in which
education can reduce poverty.
 Education gives people critical skills and tools to
help them better provide for themselves and their
children.
 Education helps people work better and can create
opportunities for sustainable and viable economic
growth now and into the future.

24. 3. The Goals of “Education For All”
e. End poverty.
 Education helps fight the spread of HIV/AIDS
and other diseases, reduces mother and child
mortality and helps improve health.
 Education encourages transparency, good
governance, stability and helps fight against
graft and corruption.

25. 4. The future strategic objectives

26. 4. The future strategic objectives
In the section to come i will be focusing on
the Strategic overview of the National
Development plan.
The Vision:
 The vision is for a South Africa in which all people
will have access to a lifelong learning, education and
training opportunities which will , in turn,
contribute towards improving the quality of life and
building of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic
south Africa.

27. 4. The future strategic objectives
2. The Mission
 Working together with provinces, our mission is to
provide relevant and cutting edge quality education
for the 21st century.

28. 4. The future strategic objectives
The Values
Placing the interest of our children first, the
department adheres to the following values:
1. People
2. Excellence
3. Teamwork
4. Learning
5. Innovation

29. 5. Professional development of teachers relating to
ICT’S and professional aptitude.
Some Common Principles of ICT are:
 a well-qualified profession
 a profession placed within the context of lifelong
learning
 a mobile profession
 a profession based on partnerships

30. 5. Professional development of teachers relating
to ICT’S and professional aptitude.
Making it work: the key competences:
 Work with others
… individually and collectively, building a « collective
intelligence »
 Work with knowledge, technology and information
… networked knowledge, complex knowledge, in the
Knowledge Society
 Work with and in society
… social, political, ethical responsibility

31. 5. Professional development of teachers
relating to ICT’S and professional aptitude
The broad standards of the ICTeTSA
include teachers to:
 1. Engage in instructional design Processes.
 2. Facilitate and inspire student learning, innovation
and creativity.
 3. Create and manage effective learning
environments.

32. 5. Professional development of teachers
relating to ICT’S and professional aptitude
The broad standards of the ICTeTSA
include teachers to:
 4. Engage in assessment and communication of
student learning.
 5. Engage in professional development and model
ethical responsibilities.
 6. Understand subject matter for use in teaching.

33. • Refrence List
Being a Teacher,in the Knowledge Society,Prof.
Bernard CORNU (INRP, CNED-EIFAD, France)
European communities(2008)
(EU, 2010,P.19)
Villegas-Reimers, 2003
King and DeRuiter, 1991
Unesco, 2002
Action plan to 2014:Twards the realisation of schooling
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