Dear Retelj

Thanks you for sharing.

Kind regatds

Haruni, my understanding of these skills relate to the use of forms of technology:

1. The use of an interactive whiteboard which enables learning to be interactive. The teacher once comfortable in using the technology [interactive whiteboard] will create a great deal of interaction by using and sharing resources with students from the 'www' [embedding Youtube resources, Facebook responses, etc.] and also encouraging students to develop theirs.

2. The presence of enhanced technology resources [e.g., MOODLE, FRONTER, FROG] which allows students to actively participate in the learning process by sharing their answers to questions with the rest of the class. During the process, teacher / tutor can also act as a moderator, thereby making it possible for learning to be more structured. With these resources, the didactic process of learning can be championed through response from students using enhanced learning facilities.

3. More recently, the use of YAMMER developed by Microsoft through its Office 360 also enables variety of resources to be used interactively even with the use of an M-Learning device [iPad, iPhone, Samsung SmartPhones, etc.].

The use of information and communication technologies in learning (ICT) refers to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in different processes of education to support and enhance learning in education institutions. This includes the use of ICT technology as a supplement to traditional classrooms, online learning or mixing the both modes. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in learning offers institutions and their students the flexibility of place and time of delivering or receiving learning information. Continuing professional development practices in today's fast moving work place environment increasingly involve the use of modern technologies as part of the quest to provide a flexible and responsive learning experience 

Khaled,K,zureikat  (2014), The Effect of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the Jordanian Universities, Information and Knowledge Management, ISSN 2224-5758 (Paper) ISSN 2224-896X (Online), Vol.4, No.12, 2014

This link could be useful for you. It presents the skills to be developed/acquired by future teachers in teacher formation processes in my country.

http://www.enlaces.cl/libros/docentes/files/docente.pdf

Haruni:

I have done some research in the area regarding the Caribbean context as we are in the process of integrating ICT into our curricular that calls for reshaping and retooling education and teachers with the requisite skills for 21st Century teaching and learning:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272148740_Evaluation_of_a_Government_ICT_Programme_for_Secondary_Schools_A_case_study_of_Teachers%27_Perceptions_of_a_Caribbean_Boys%27_High_School

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263853212_Termly_Conference_of_Tobago_Principals_Feature_Address_-_Reshaping_Teaching_and_Learning_through_ICTs?ev=prf_pub

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263767251_Championing_Blended_Learning_in_Higher_Education_Reflections_on_Lessons_Learnt?ev=prf_pub

I extend best wishes for every success in your research.

Debra

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Dear Debra

Thanks you very much for sharing very resourceful research paper.

Regards

Haruni

1) Good jobs in today’s economy and labor market require workers to have a growing level of knowledge and skill in order to compete for them;

2) The employment gap is widening between those with higher levels of education and credentials and those who lack them;

3) The difference between supply and demand indicates that there is a “skills gap” between what most workers have to offer and what businesses need, creating the urgency to develop and support new strategies that can better equip and train young people and

existing workers alike for jobs in today’s economy.

Dear, Krishnan

Thank you a lot. Also the ever changing  working conditions is an influence to the search of current 21st century skills. 

Regards

There are several requirements to live and work in the 21st Century:

1). Enough mathematical ability to understand interest and cumulative interest, the large numbers used in budgets, the fact that percent increases and decreases do not  add as if they were natural numbers, to check a bill, and use spreadsheets. 

2). Enough Science and its methods to correctly interpret reports in the press. For example, there currently is a lot of fuss about the failure of some published results to replicate. Citizens should be able to think about whether this matters for them. 

3). Reading level that is commensurate with the requirements of the texts in the best newspapers and other public documents, including manuals.

4). The fact that different cultures within and across countries may have different interpretations of the seemingly same situation. And, an ability to be willing to try to understand people and groups in your own culture who have different working assumptions due to the environment that they grew up in.

4). Enough computer literacy to keep up with the ever changing list of 'intelligent' devices and thei potential for misuse as well as help. 

HI all, I've presented a few resources on how educators can develop and assess online communication and group skills in students. They are uploaded to RG but if you'd like more please contact me and I can send you other materials! Regards, Jacqui

You May find interesting to real more aborto tpack that has to do With  those skills to Face New educational and technological demandas

Regards

Valentina 

Professional Development for Global Educators

http://www.pearsonpdi.com/docs/PDI_Catalogue_v8-Final-en.pdf

Please look some of my articles in this profile, especially those that have been published in Computers in Human Behavior. I have extensively described the use of cognitive apprenticeship. 

Kind regards

NP

Hi Haruni,

I have written some articles regarding the blended learning issue. Details are pasted below. 

Regards, Kevin

Larkin, K. & Jamieson-Proctor, R. (2015). Using Transactional Distance Theory to redesign an Online Mathematics Education Course for Pre-Service Primary Teachers. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED). Online First. http://www.merga.net.au/ojs/index.php/mted/article/view/193

Larkin, K. (2014). Restructuring a pre-service teacher mathematics education course to develop Mathematics Content Knowledge (MCK) and Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge (MPCK). Paper presented at STEM 2014: STEM Education and our Planet: Making Connections Across Contexts, Vancouver, (July 12 - 15). Acknowledged as Best Paper Award at this conference.

Larkin, K. & Jamieson-Proctor, R. (2013). Transactional Distance Theory (TDT): An Approach to Enhancing Knowledge and Reducing Anxiety of Pre-Service Teachers Studying a Mathematics Education Course Online. in V. Steinle, L. Ball & C. Bardini (Eds.) Mathematics Education: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Proceedings of the 36th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia: Melbourne, (July 7-11, 2013)

Dear Kevin

The resources are very useful. Thank you for sharing

Kind regards

Haruni