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From Blade Runner to I, Robot, the big screens of Hollywood have predicted the rise of the machine. Automated intelligences will wait our tables and drive our cabs. They will serve us by performing menial tasks. But fact is now surpassing fiction. Automation has moved beyond the factory assembly line as computers are diagnosing illnesses, providing legal counsel, and make financial and political decisions. And if artificial intelligence really is faster, smarter and more reliable, what are we left with?
The answer is precisely that element which makes us less efficient and slower. Our humanity. But rather than being seen as a weakness, this is actually our strongest suit. It’s one we need to empower, because studies show that as the world becomes increasingly automated, computerised and digitalised, we are losing the very skills that define us as human. Just when we need them the most.
Our empathy is something that computers will always struggle to emulate. We need to celebrate what makes us different from even the smartest of the machines. While the future belongs to those who are able to navigate this increasingly digitalised world of ours, the choicest spoils will fall to those who can combine technological fluency with emotional intelligence. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Empathy https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Emotional+intelligence
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By teaching students these skills in an authentic, applicable way, will they see each other differently? It’s worth finding out. With so many curricular and time restraints on teachers, how can we be expected to explicitly teach empathy in a meaningful way?
A Definition Of Empathy
Webster’s dictionary defines empathy as: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either in the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
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Teaching to the Human Core | #Empathy #Happiness #Relationships #Listening
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Soft skills is a synonym for "people skills." The term describes those personal attributes that indicate a high level of emotional intelligence.
Unlike hard skills, which describe a person's technical skill set and ability to perform specific tasks, soft skills are broadly applicable across job titles and industries. It's often said that hard skills will get you an interview but you need soft skills to get -- and keep -- the job. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Soft+Skills
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Behavior changes in people doesn't just happen from one day to the next. Changes in this area takes time - and often, the motto: "You can´t teach an old dog new tricks" applies. Nevertheless - the situation is not hopeless and people are capable of change and are often willing to do so. You are likely to achieve the desired success, if you consider the following four "change levers": Attitude & Motivation Knowledge & Skills Structures & Processes Role Models & Culture Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=change
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In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before. She’d witnessed the heartbreak of watching a one-size-fits-all education system fail to engage students who needed it most. And the joy of nurturing students’ natural desire to solve problems and create. Design thinking gives purpose to making. It's a problem-solving, action-oriented, human-centered process that we engage in to assist our students in their journeys as makers. These experiences as a teacher and administrator inspired her to found Bullis Charter school—with both her past and future students in mind. The award winning K-8 public school is focused on design thinking, making, and project-based learning—all of which Wanny believes engage children, and grow their natural curiosity. Wanny spoke to EdSurge about how making builds empathy, why it’s important to compensate teachers for continuously learning, and her advice for administrators who want to drive change through design thinking. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Design-Thinking https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/design-the-learning-of-your-learners-students-ideas/
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Does the character of our leaders matter? According to research done by KRW International it really, really, does!
Welcome to a Leadership Channel Podcast on TotalPicture. Joining Peter Clayton today is Fred Kiel, PhD, co-founder of KRW International, the author of Return On Character. For more than thirty years, he has helped Fortune 500 CEOs and senior executives build organizational effectiveness through leadership excellence and mission alignment. Strategy+Business considers Return on Character one of the best business books of 2015.
With Credit Suisse replacing their CEO after years of fines and the future of companies like Uber and Yahoo! being questioned because of bad CEO behavior, (or the current CEO poster boy, infamous former Turing CEO Martin Shkreli), could this be the wakeup call we need to start measuring how the character of a leader impacts their organization's performance?
For the first time we now have data to measure the correlation. In Return On Character (Harvard Business Review Press,), the findings are revealed from KRW International's seven-year study on the financial impact of character. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=LeaderShip http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=LeaderSkills http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Character http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Soft+Skills Check also: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Emotional-Intelligence - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Emotions-and-Learning - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Empathy - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=EQ - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Daniel-GOLEMAN
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Empathy is systemically related to all of the abilities on the compass, particularly to self-awareness at "true south." Research suggests that the more children become aware of themselves, the better they become at understanding others. Volumes have been written about how to teach empathy, and there is still much to learn. In an excellent article from the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, author Roman Krznaric, Ph.D., claims that highly empathetic people:
Cultivate curiosity about strangers Challenge prejudices and discover commonalities
Gain direct experience of other people's lives
Listen and open themselves to others
Inspire mass action and social change
Develop an ambitious imagination
All of these behaviors foster personal growth and lifelong learning while contributing to the growth of society, particularly empathy's role in inspiring social change.
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Like other aspects of modern life, education can make the head hurt. So many outcomes, so much important work to do, so many solutions and strategies, so many variations on teaching, so many different kinds of students with so many different needs, so many unknowns in preparing for 21st Century life and the endless list of jobs that haven’t been invented.
What if we discovered one unifying factor that brought all of this confusion under one roof and gave us a coherent sense of how to stimulate the intellect, teach children to engage in collaborative problem solving and creative challenge, and foster social-emotional balance and stability—one factor that, if we got right, would change the equation for learning in the same way that confirming the existence of a fundamental particle informs a grand theory of the universe?
That factor exists: It’s called empathy. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Empathy http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Soft+Skills
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Why are some people so much better at expressing empathy than others?
Psychologists define empathy as sensitivity to the emotions, both positive and negative, of other people. You can feel empathic—or empathetic (the two words are used interchangeably)—to someone who is feeling positive feelings, such as amusement or joy, in addition to someone who is feeling sadness or anger. “Empathy is being in the heart of another person,” says Susan Kuczmarski, a cultural anthropologist and adjunct faculty member in the executive education program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Researchers have determined that people react in one of two ways when faced with another person’s emotions. Sometimes people respond with “empathic concern” or caregiving. They see themselves as a source of comfort or support for the other person.
But sometimes people feel threatened by the other person’s emotions and focus instead on themselves. They might try to help, to minimize their own discomfort. Typically they distance themselves. Psychologists call this response “empathic distress.” Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Empathy http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Soft+Skills
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Im Rahmen des Weltflüchtlingstages ist die Internetseite www.nohatespeech.lu online gegangen. Das No Hate Speech Movement wurde vom Conseil de l’Europe gestartet und hat als Ziel, vorrangig Jugendliche sowie Jugendorganisationen als Teil der Zivilgesellschaft dazu aufzufordern, sich aktiv gegen jede Form von Hate Speech einzusetzen. In Folge eines Aufrufes des Service National de la Jeunesse haben sich 25 Organisationen, darunter BEE SECURE, um die Kampagne in Luxemburg aufzubauen.
Jugendorganisationen, Gruppen von Jugendlichen, sowie Schulklassen können ihr eigenes Projekt zur Kampagne beitragen, indem sie ihre Vorschläge über das vorhandene Formular auf der Webseite einreichen.
Mehr Informationen als auch andere Möglichkeiten, die Kampagne zu unterstützen, lassen sich auf www.nohatespeech.lu finden. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbyCtbGZyeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4agzfiqPA
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The World Economic Forum shared the Future of Jobs report in 2018 that provided a list of the growing skills for 2022. Here are the top 10:
- Analytical thinking and innovation
- Active learning and learning strategies
- Creativity, originality, and initiative
- Technology design and programming
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Complex problem-solving
- Leadership and social influence
- Emotional intelligence
- Reasoning, problem-solving, and ideation
- Systems analysis and evaluation
If we look at these 10 skill areas, what types of learning experiences or learning spaces can we create for our students that can address most if not all of them? Looking at these skills individually and thinking about the nature of our work, it can seem overwhelming. However, there are some simple ways to create a space where students can build all of these skills and more.
Here are six ideas to try that can help to address these skills:
1. Project-based Learning (PBL)
2. Coding
3. STEAM and Makerspaces
4. Place-based
5. Genius Hour
6. Student-Led PD or Teacher for a Day
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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/andragogy-adult-teaching-how-to-teach-ict/
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/adventures-of-learning-how-does-it-happen/
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