UNDERSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE NEW ERA

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UNDERSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE NEW ERA Lela Abdushelishvili, Ph. D

UNDERSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE NEW ERA Lela Abdushelishvili, Ph. D

Here a few questions that I feel are important to think deeply about 1.

Here a few questions that I feel are important to think deeply about 1. What does it mean to be well-educated in the 21 st century? 2. How does one live a creative, purpose-driven life that matters? 3. How do we nurture curiosity and wonder in ourselves and our children? 4. How do we inspire self-motivated learners able to solve their own problems? 5. How do we empowered citizens who actively serve their communities?

IMPORTANT It’s people like you and me — not just institutions — that need

IMPORTANT It’s people like you and me — not just institutions — that need to reimagine the role of learning in our lives by spending more time following our curiosity, exploring, creating, sharing and experimenting with our ideas Curiosity is the engine of achievement

Questions What’s Your Idea of 21 st Century Education? How are you taking control

Questions What’s Your Idea of 21 st Century Education? How are you taking control of your education and learning on your own? Who has inspired you to learn and pursue self-mastery?

We must foster a lifelong learning mindset In ourselves and the people we care

We must foster a lifelong learning mindset In ourselves and the people we care about to navigate the challenges of 21 st century education that require us to be constantly learning, adapting and developing our skills

IMPORTANT We need to be creative problem solvers - Play, passion and purpose “The

IMPORTANT We need to be creative problem solvers - Play, passion and purpose “The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you do with what you know. ”

Seven skills for XXI century • • Critical thinking and problem-solving Collaboration and leading

Seven skills for XXI century • • Critical thinking and problem-solving Collaboration and leading by influence Agility and adaptability Initiative and entrepreneurship Oral and written communication Accessing and analyzing information Curiosity and imagination

IMPORTANT We all need to adopt a growth mindset Mindset change is about seeing

IMPORTANT We all need to adopt a growth mindset Mindset change is about seeing things in a new way When people change to a growth mindset, they change from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework

IMPORTANT We need to be self-motivated learners Create your own self-directed productivity systems that

IMPORTANT We need to be self-motivated learners Create your own self-directed productivity systems that allows to develop a higher degree of autonomy, mastery and purpose in our lives

Julius Erving Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on

Julius Erving Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them

We need to create systems to focus our minds and achieve full engagement in

We need to create systems to focus our minds and achieve full engagement in our work

We need to develop our creative gifts and talents through play risk failure and

We need to develop our creative gifts and talents through play risk failure and learn quickly from our mistakes Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields

IMPORTANT The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected and mature.

IMPORTANT The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Counselling activities Inspire deep-learning strategies by suitable types of testing Cause students to practice

Counselling activities Inspire deep-learning strategies by suitable types of testing Cause students to practice subsuming and interrelating Use approaches conducive to problem-oriented learning Apply teaching methods that support individual study and students’ own responsibility Present learning matter lucidly and in a thought-provoking way Encourage activity including internalised conversations, interaction with study material and with tutors along the lines of the teaching-learning conversation

Supervised Distance Education Distance education is based on deep learning as an individual activity

Supervised Distance Education Distance education is based on deep learning as an individual activity Learning is guided and supported by noncontiguous means which activate students, i. e. by mediated communication Subject-matter presentation and mediated interaction are the two constituent components of distance education, for which a supporting organization is responsible

Distance education has been shown to have generated theoretical considerations, which are concerned with

Distance education has been shown to have generated theoretical considerations, which are concerned with its particular character, and hypothetico-deductive approaches to its educational effectiveness

CONCLUSION Distance-education research has been and is concerned with problems of understanding and explaining

CONCLUSION Distance-education research has been and is concerned with problems of understanding and explaining its circumstances and conditions; the needs and requirements of its students; the measures taken to meet these needs and requirements; methodology; media use; organization and administration; evaluation of these measures and of complete distance-education systems from educational, social, and financial points of view