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Shaping the Future through Knowledge

UNESCO High-Level Round Table on the occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (November 2005

Toward a future knowledge society

Stephen Downes presented a Venus Seminar recently - Toward a Future Knowledge Society. In the presentation, he explores the proposal that the structured view of knowledge has given way to more diverse ways of organizing, categorizing, and knowing.

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

Are students well prepared for future challenges? Can they analyse, reason and communicate effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) answers these questions and more, through its surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialised countries. Every three years, it assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills essential for full participation in society. The results of the PISA 2006 survey will be released on 4 December 2007.

Education 2010

This publication grew out of an invitation Conference at Bangor in July, 1989. The brief was to examine the possible role of IT in Education in the year 2010. Although the materials produced focus on the place of IT in education over the next twenty years, their relevance extends beyond that of the IT community. They will be of interest and relevance to all teachers who have an eye on the future. A number of different scenarios are offered as the basis for promoting discussion with either pre or in-service teachers.

Telling it like it is? Young learners: the real voice of education

We often hear that it’s important to consider learner voice in education, but we rarely hear from learners themselves in the media. VISION asks two 17 year-olds from the Edge Learner Forum, Samia Meah and Huda Al Bander, to give us their view of what education should be like. Here’s what they have to say...

Laboratories of Reform: Virtual High Schools and Innovation in Public Education

there has been no shortage of solutions for improving the nation’s public schools. school leadership, teacher quality, standards, testing, funding, and a host of other issues have crowded reform agendas. but an important trend in public education has gone largely unnoticed in the cacophony of policy proposals: the rise of a completely new class of public schools— “virtual” schools using the internet to create online classrooms—that is bringing about reforms that have long eluded traditional public schools.

Architectures for Conversation

What Communities of Practice can mean for Information Architecture

The Stellenbosch Declaration - ICT in Education: Make it Work

This declaration is the result of the expert group of educators and specialists of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in Education, from six continents, who met and worked together in Stellenbosch, South Africa from 4th to 7th July 2005 at the IFIP 8th World Conference on Computers in Education (“40 years of Computers in Education, What Works?”) held by the IFIP Committee on Education (IFIP TC3)

Rolls-Royce: Knowledge acquisition and modelling

As the power behind the recently retired Concorde, Rolls-Royce set about capturing the experiences gained by its engineers for future projects. Michael Moss describes the importance of knowledge capture to the company and how knowledge management as a whole is helping meet the challenges of the future.