A complete ecosystem for active learning and teaching in 21st Century Education
Learning and Teaching Re-imagined * Future Education Today
ALTE - Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem
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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!
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Future of Work 2030
A wake-up call for
organisations, people
and governments
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"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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Ecryption, Resilience,
and Availability Manager
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The Alternative Learning & Teaching Ecosystem - ALTE
Supporting Collaborative Learning Environments
Throughout the Education Continuum
Q :
Take the quiz..... How many of these jobs existed
before the turn of the Century?
Dedicated Social Media
Community Manager
Smart Phone/Home Troubleshooter
Hardly Any - These Jobs are New to the Knowledge Economy Workforce!
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.
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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.
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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.
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
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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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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.
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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
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
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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OECD Schooling
Redesigned Towards
Innovative Learning
Systems
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Automated Vehicle Tester
Jaime Casap, Google Education
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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.
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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.
Addressing pervasive problems in K-12 Education through facilitating
the acquisition of 21st Century skills needed in the Knowledge Economy
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Research collaboration to accelerate global education reforms - offers 21st-century
curricula recommendations for education systems to support an improved workforce.
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Our primary focus with ALTE is to capacitate K-12 students with Knowledge Economy skills, where their success lies 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.
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Curriculum - Smart Cities K-12 Initiative
The Currency
of the
21st Century
The question on everyone's mind:
IoT Cybersecurity
Cisco * Intel * Microsoft
critical thinking, collaboration,
communication and creativity
UNESCO Education 2030
Incheon Declaration for a
Framework for Action
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ALTE - The Alternative Learnng and Teaching Ecosystem
Prepares Today's Students for Tomorrow's Challenges
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