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 and the 4Cs of Future
Education - ALTE is the solution!
eHealth Coder
SmartBuilding Construction IT Manager
"The U.S. K-12 system largely still adheres
to the century-old, industrial-age factory
model of education.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Automated Vehicle Tester
critical thinking, collaboration,
communication and creativity
Cisco * Intel * Microsoft
Teacher's Manual for Carbon Footprint
Curriculum - Smart Cities K-12 Initiative
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.
Big Data Architect
Data
Breach Analyst
Scaffolding + The Scientific Method = Getting to the "How"?
A :
The 4Cs of Future Education:
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 environ-
ments for the 21st Century.
Read more at
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 21st Century
workforce,
- participate in a global society
as active citizens,
in the Knowledge Age in an era of globalization.
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
Cloud Computing Services Manager
World FATE recently convened their biennial
conference 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.
Read more at
Customer Experience Manager
Sustainability Expert Manager
CONTACT:
Sandra Lund-Diaz, M.Ed., Interim Executive Director, Knowledge Building in Action
Email: kbinaction@gmail.com
Search Engine
Optimization Strategist
Contact us for a demonstration
Market Research Miner
need to align with several international efforts to set new standards and promote new teaching and learning for 21st Century Education.
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
Jaime Casap, Google Education
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
Smart Phone/Home Troubleshooter
Research collaboration to accelerate global education reforms - offers 21st-century curricula recommendations for education systems to support an improved workforce.
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Geolocation Analyst
ALTE - The Alternative Learnng and Teaching Ecosystem
Prepares Today's Students for Tomorrow's Challenges
Their Goal: To rethink what schooling should look like in a rapidly-changing global society of the Knowledge Age.
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
Hardly Any - These jobs are new to the 21st Century 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 peers to enjoy the camaraderie of a community of practice of educators with access to ongoing professional
development.
Blogger
Machine Learning Algorithm
Modeling / Cluster Analyst
The Currency
of the
21st Century
The question on everyone's mind:
IDEAS
and Career-ready Standards and Assessments. Our reply: The ALTE model supports the tools educators (teachers, principals and technology staff)
AgriTech Data Analyst
and Marketer
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.
Information Security Analyst
App Developer
IoT Cybersecurity
A complete ecosystem for active learning and teaching in 21st Century Education
Learning and Teaching Re-imagined * Future Education Today
UNESCO has developed its Information
and Communication Technology
Competency Framework for Teaching
to promote technology literacy,
knowledge deepening and knowledge
creation in primary and secondary
education.
Read more at
So how can students learn the skills they need for jobs we don't even
know will be created?
"
Ecryption, Resilience,
and Availability Manager
Agro Tourism Guide
The Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem - ALTE
Supporting Collaborative Learning Environments Throughout the Education Continuum
Q :
Addressing pervasive problems in K-12 Education through facilitating
the acquisition of 21st Century skills:
ALTE - Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem
World Economic Forum
"The Future of Jobs" -
Employment, Skills
and Workforce Strategy
for the Fourth
Industrial Revolution
Read more at
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The U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) Program is seeking guidance on implementing internationally benchmarked College-
Telework Coordinator