ALTE - the Alternative Learning and Teaching Ecosystem - supports collaborative learning
environments in classrooms that function as scientific communities around problem-solving
in an interdisciplinary examination of topics. A demonstration of the practical application of
knowledge-building pedagogy can be found in these case studies:
By helping students acquire 21st Century skills around the 4Cs of
Future Education - critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity.
ALTE is the solution!
eHealth Coder
SmartBuilding Construction IT Manager
CONTACT:
Sandra Lund-Diaz, M.Ed., Philanthropy Strategies Global Consulting
Email: kbinaction@gmail.com
Future of Work 2030
A wake-up call for
organisations, people
and governments
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Telework Coordinator
Ecryption, Resilience,
and Availability Manager
Agro Tourism Guide
Blogger
Machine Learning Algorithm
Modeling / Cluster Analyst
The Currency
of the
21st Century
The question on everyone's mind:
IoT Cybersecurity
Data
Breach Analyst
Cloud Computing Services Manager
Come to our presentation at the Biennial
Conference of World FATE in Melbourne,
Australia, July 10, 2018.
World FATE's most recent conference
(Barcelona, 2016) focused on the theme,
“Innovation in Teacher Education within a
Global Context”, to reflect the needs in teacher
education to build capacity for educators able
to go beyond 21st Century skills to prepare
learners for the challenges presented in a
knowledge society.
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Customer Experience Manager
Sustainability Expert Manager
Governments across the world are forced to rethink what schooling should look like
in a rapidly-changing global society of the Knowledge Age Economy.
Green Construction and
Retrofit Architect
The ALTE Community of Practice supports both
synchronous and asynchronous learning
through small groups in computer-supported
collaborative learning environments required
to implement the ALTE ecosystem in
primary and secondary education classrooms,
after-school programs, Armed Forces schools,
International Baccalaureate Programs,
economic development agencies and
alternative learning environments
Blockchain Coder
"The U.S. K-12 system largely still adheres
to the century-old, industrial-age factory
model of education.”
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
OECD Schooling
Redesigned Towards
Innovative Learning
Systems
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User Experience Designer
UI / UIX Designer
Take the quiz..... How many of these jobs existed
before the turn of the Century?
Dedicated Social Media
Community Manager
When working within collaborative learning environments, members of a small group gathered
around a problem, objective or plan are learning with others by capitalizing on different skills and
experiences to solve problems. In the process, they become co-learners, gaining knowledge from
the experiences of others in their group to achieve their learning objectives around the production
and continual improvement of ideas, which are the currency of the 21st Century Knowledge Age.
When dialogue around ideas can be supported in learning environments whose members can share
knowledge that will benefit all reciprocally, individual ideas can be transformed into action from
the collective knowledge accumulation of a group. Collaborative Learning Communities of 21st
Century research, business, and government support sharing ideas, information and work on
common issues and shared problems to achieve a common goal.
Scaffolding + The Scientific Method = Getting to the "How"?
The Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development
has synthesized research from the
Innovative Learning Environments
Project to create seven transversal
principles to guide the development
of learning environments for the
Knowledge Age Economy.
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Let's stop asking students what they want to be or do when they grow up. Ask them what problems they want to solve and what they need to learn in order to solve those problems
Learning and Teaching Re-imagined * Future Education Today
ALTE's primary focus is to capacitate K-12 students with Knowledge Economy skills, where their success
is in being able to collaborate and use information to solve complex problems, in being able to adapt and
innovate in response to new demands and changing circumstances, improve their communication and work
together with their peers in small group innovative learning environments. They are able to marshal and
expand the power of technology to create new knowledge and expand human capacity and productivity,
and acquire a mastery of the subject matters being studied through deep learning.
Secondarily, but equally important, is ALTE's focus on training educators as facilitators of learning. This is a
radical departure from the current mode of teaching in use for the past 200 years. In the past, education was
about teaching people something in a very narrow context in silos that impeded connections between teachers
and students. Today on many fronts, education is or is increasingly becoming multidisciplinary, and is more about
making sure that individuals develop a reliable compass and the navigation skills to find their way through an
increasingly uncertain, volatile and ambiguous world, echoing futurists’ call to think about possibilities. ALTE aims
to provide that compass by creating innovative learningenvironments In a knowledge-based economy, where
educators are capacitated with the proper skills to help their students navigate modern societies, ones that are
increasingly based on information and knowledge, become invaluable. Such skilled teachers help build workforces
with adequate ICT skills to handle information, and are reflective, creative and adept at problem-solving in order to
generate knowledge.
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In designing the teacher training component of the model, we looked to recommendations from esteemed
organizations such as UNESCO and OECD to align the project’s teacher training component that will enable
teachers, prinicpals, adjunct faculty and technology staff in K-12 education to acquire skills toward technology
literacy(enabling students to use ICTs to learn more efficiently, knowledge deepening (helping students acquire
in-depth knowledge of the subjects being studied and apply it to complex,real-world problems, and knowledge
creation (with the end results being able to create new knowledge). These are the skills set forth by UNESCO’s
ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, and educators equipped with these competences have become more
important than ever to ensure their students have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed - in school,
as future employees or entrepreneurs, and in life.
ALTE is centered around knowledge-building pedagogy utilizing technology formulated spcifically for knowledge-
building learning environments in the form of a digital workspace, accessible via the Internet or housed on local
servers. This technology is the heart of computer-supported collaborative learning environments that allow
individuals to engage in learning to expand their thinking, apply creativity and critical thinking to problem-solving
and decision-making, and acquire skills that will help them communicate and work in collaboration with others.
The model supports learning progressions to help teachers use scaffolding and the scientific method in a student’s
learning processes. ALTE classrooms across the street or around the world are partnered for an added element
of collaborative learning, creating opportunities for students to share ideas and experiences from different social
and economic environments to make global connections. Teachers are networked through a digital Community of
Practice to share experiences, be mentored and access resources in their needs for continuous professional
development.
IDEAS
ALTE - The Alternative Learnng and Teaching Ecosystem
Prepares Today's Students for Tomorrow's Challenges
Teacher's Manual for Carbon Footprint
Curriculum - Smart Cities K-12 Initiative
A :
The 4Cs of Future Education:
ALTE - Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem
Search Engine
Optimization Strategist
Contact us for a demonstration
UNESCO has developed its
Information and Communication
Technology Competency Frame-
work for Teaching to promote
technology literacy, knowledge
deepening and knowledge
creation in primary and
secondary education.
Read more at
Market Research Miner
How best to prepare students for success in school,
in the workforce and in life?
The ALTE Global Learning Ecosystem
Prepares Today's Students for Tomorrow's Challenges
Hardly Any - These Jobs are New to the Knowledge Economy Workforce!
Students formulate their theories and utilize scaffolds to create collective knowledge. By
using the pedagogical methodologies supported by the ALTE Ecosystem of bundled technology,
teacher training, methodologies and mentoring, educators help their students develop basic and
transversal skills through computer-supported collaborative learning, where the teacher becomes
a facilitator of learning. By joining the ALTE Community of Practice, educators - teachers,
principals and technology faculty - are partnered with their colleagues to enjoy the camaraderie
of a community of practice of educators with access to ongoing professional development.
App Developer
Geolocation Analyst
critical thinking, collaboration,
communication and creativity
Big Data Architect
We are stuck in 19th Century education – an industry
by all definitions of the word and a sector ripe for
disruption. Why? Because K-12 students are not
acquiring the skills needed to:
- succeed in K-12 education or be
college-ready or career-ready if
they do graduate high school,
- become productive employees,
without access to mechanisms
allowing them to acquire the skills
demanded by the Knowledge
Economy workforce,
- participate in a global society
as active citizens,
in the Knowledge Age in an era of globalization.
By answering “how?”, mankind pursues solutions
to problems and situations of great consequence
to all people on earth; The “hows?” accomplish
what many think is impossible, and the impossible
become not only possible but common place. The
“how?” withstands the testament of time and
continues to provoke the innovation, ingenuity
and creativity of those who dare to dream of
accomplishing something great.
Students in ALTE's interdisciplinary learning
environments learn to probe authentic questions
regarding real-world challenges. Through computer-
supported collaborative learning, they acquire critical
21st Century skills in K-12 to unlock important traits –
scientific curiosity,innovation and creativity - to ask the
question, "how?", one day becoming the leaders,
educators, workforce and engaged citizens of a global
society of the Knowledge Age.
As members of the ALTE Community of Practice, teachers utilize
an array of tools to become facilitators of learning, thus transforming
the classroom into 21st Century collaborative learning environments.
They value how students engage in inquiry, enabling them to function
as do professionals – scientists, business people, and community
leaders – responding to real-world problems in collaborative learning
communities similar to those in research, government and business.
Addressing pervasive problems in K-12 Education through facilitating
the acquisition of 21st Century skills needed in the Knowledge Economy
Information Security Analyst
Research collaboration to accelerate global education reforms - offers 21st-century
curricula recommendations for education systems to support an improved workforce.
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UNESCO Education 2030
Incheon Declaration for a
Framework for Action
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Cisco * Intel * Microsoft
A complete ecosystem for active learning and teaching in 21st Century Education
World Economic Forum
"The Future of Jobs" -
Employment, Skills
and Workforce Strategy
for the Fourth
Industrial Revolution
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The U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) Program
sought guidance on implementing internationally benchmarked
College- and Career-ready Standards and Assessments.
Our reply: The ALTE model supports the tools educators (teachers, principals and technology staff)
need to align with several international efforts to set new standards and
promote new teaching and learning for 21st Century Education needed for the Knowledge Economy.
So how can students learn the skills they need for jobs we don't
even know will be created, for technologies that have not yet been
invented and solve problems that have not yet been anticipated ?
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Automated Vehicle Tester
Jaime Casap, Google Education
The Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem - ALTE
Supporting Collaborative Learning Environments
Throughout the Education Continuum
Q :
Smart Phone/Home Troubleshooter
AgriTech Data Analyst
and Marketer