Supporting Collaborative Learning Environments Throughout the Education Continuum
Q :
Take the quiz..... How many of these jobs existed a mere 10 years ago?
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None - All these jobs are new to the 21st Century workforce!
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.
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The question on everyone's mind:
ALTE - The Alternative Learnng and Teaching Ecosystem
Prepares Today's Students for Tomorrow's Challenges
and Career-ready Standards and Assessments. Our reply: The ALTE model supports the tools educators (teachers, principals and technology staff)
critical thinking, collaboration,
communication and creativity
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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Their Goal: To rethink what schooling should look like in a rapidly-changing global society of the Knowledge Age.
The U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) Program is seeking guidance on implementing internationally benchmarked College-
So how can students learn the skills they need for jobs we don't even
know will be created?
By helping students acquire 21st Century skills and the 4Cs of Future
Education - ALTE is the solution!
"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
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Addressing pervasive problems in K-12 Education through facilitating
the acquisition of 21st Century skills:
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Learning and Teaching Re-imagined * Future Education Today
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
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The ALTE Community of Practice supports collaborative learning environments in primary and secondary
classrooms that function as scientific communities around topics. 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.
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A complete ecosystem for active learning and teaching in 21st Century Education
ALTE - Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem
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need to align with several international efforts to set new standards and promote new teaching and learning for 21st Century Education.
The ALTE Global Learning Ecosystem
Prepares Today's Students for Tomorrow's Challenges
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How best to prepare students for success in school,
in the workforce and in life?
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