Training
Vizual
Symphony bridges the gap between technology and learning
to springboard towards possibilities.
- Want
to experience exponential learning?
- Want
to make the most of your investment?
- Want
to meet students of the Net Generation where they are
at?
- Learn
how to adapt teaching methods for maximum results?
Want
to learn how to effectively use tech tools to advance
critical thinking and learning?
Our country’s global economic success in the future
depends on K-20 graduates honing their “21st
Century Skills.” Today’s tech-savvy generation
has no shortage of user-friendly devices…and
they know how to use them. But are they putting these
tech skills
to good use? You’ve heard of the 3R’s but
what about the 5Cs such as critical thinking, creative
problem
solving, communications, collaboration and cross-cultural
relationship building?
Beginning
in 2010, “tech
literacy” will be
added to our Nation’s Report Card. This means
student proficiency in the application of technology
will be measured
for the first time. It isn’t just about layering
technology over traditional core competencies, though.
It’s about totally integrating the two for
success in an increasingly competitive world.
In
preparation for the coming technology assessment,
Vizual Symphony has developed a program to prepare
administrators, teachers and students to integrate,
bridge and transform
learning for the “21st Century Skills”.
- Implementation
Training
- Collaboration
Training
- Integration
Training
It’s not what you know that counts
anymore; it’s
what you can learn
Don Tapscott, Grown up Digital
Please
call to discuss program options and learn about our packages.
“
Education is so much more than the mere transfer of information.
The information has to be assimilated.
Students have to connect the information to what they
already know, develop
mental models, learn how to apply the new
knowledge, and how to adapt this knowledge to new and
unfamiliar situations.” Eric
Mazur, “Reflections of a Harvard
Education”,
Harvard Crimson, June 2007
Seven
Tips for Educators, as noted in Grown up Digital
by Don Tapscott
- Don’t
throw technology into the classroom and hope for good
things
- Cut
back on lecturing
- Empower
students to collaborate
- Focus
on lifelong learning, not teaching to the test
- Use
technology to get to know each student
- Design
educational programs according to the eight
norms
- Reinvent
yourself as a teacher, professor, or
educator
As
John Seely Brown states, “A
brief reflection on an interesting
shift that I believe is happening:
a shift
between using technology to support
the individual to using technology
to support relationships between individuals.
With that shift, we will discover new
tools and social
protocols for helping us help each
other, which is the very essence of
social learning. It is also the essence
of lifelong learning—a form of
learning that learning ecologies could
dramatically facilitate. And developing
learning ecologies in a region is a
first, important step
toward a more general culture of learning.
An excerpt from “Growing
up Digital: How the web changes work,
education and the way people learn”,
Change, March/April 2000 |
