The smart education for smart ecosistems. sheila romera.
1. Cities change posing great challenges for the future, facing future cities Smart
cities and territories around the world: infrastructures and the transformation of
exponential technologies. Education is the cornerstone and the first step to build
future smart societies
The world is changing, and the skills needed tomorrow differ from those needed
yesterday, or even today. To stay competitive, smart city leaders must ensure
citizens have access to digital tools and that they know how to use them.
Future smart citizen
The new citizens will have a vital role they should be hyper-connected, creative,
entrepreneurial. They need be educated in a integrated way and having into
account all the stakeholders around education process. The education for a
smart city cant be indoors, and education can´t be developed between student-
teacher as before, we have to consider the rest of Stakeholders in a city as
educator elements: asociations, administration, hospitals, pharmacies, spaces
of environment, mass media…
Citizen’s learning experience, livable experience and city innovation
development, are all connected with these learning environments. The new
citizens will have a vital role they should be hyper-connected, creative,
entrepreneurial.
Students are able to navigate through a complex digital landscape will be able
to participate fully in the economic, social and cultural life around them. And that
includes the benefits of a smart city.
Learning environments provide the atmosphere for learning in a city, which is
vital for cultivating talents with creative skills to deal with all the innovations in
smart cities.
Schools, educators and students – whatever the age – have much to gain from
smart city investments. An open digital infrastructure, paired with access to
tools that increase collaboration and engagement, improve the educational
experience, better preparing students for a job in the knowledge economy of the
21st century.
Our schools, community colleges, adult learning centers and universities should
be incubators of exploration and invention. The methologies must help to
develop SXXI skills, technology is a tool and to get benefits of technology in our
education system and provide authentic learning experiences, educators need
to use technology effectively in their practice.
The technology has an important role as a tool that changes the possibilities of
learning and engagement with environment.
2. The future of technology in education is also about revolutionizing education by
normalizing lifelong learning. Online learning is a great way to facilitate today’s
knowledge-driven society. As a result of globalization, educational institutions
around the world are now integrating technologies into our lives.
Connected learning
Furthermore, education stakeholders should commit to working together to use
technology to improve smarter education. These stakeholders include leaders;
teachers, faculty, and other educators; researchers; policymakers; funders;
technology developers; community members and organizations; and learners
and their families.
Education can and does play a role in all of this, teaching civic literacy,
providing the skills needed for community engagement, and supporting
creativity and innovation throughout the lifespan. Education can and should be
prepared to adjust and grow along with urban environments. The lessons
students are taught in school will carry forward into their communities, giving
schools and universities a direct path to positively impact their immediate
surroundings.
Health education and wellness has to be more connected to education in a
smart city. Projects as Smart healthy citizen are trying these fields be closer.
Connected learning is not only technology learning as some practices using
technologies think. Beyond the essential core academic competencies, there is
a growing body of research on the importance of non-cognitive competencies
as they relate to academic success. Connected learning promotes
development of self-awareness, control of impulsivity, executive function,
working cooperatively, and caring about oneself and others.
Technology that creates community.
Education in a smart city use the technology developing clear communities of
practice for education leaders at all levels that act as a hub for setting vision,
understanding research, and sharing practices.
Building on the model of the education innovation clusters, state, district,
university, and community organization leaders should establish cohesive
communities of practice—in person and online—to create virtuous cycles for
sharing the most recent research and effective practices in the use of
educational technology.
Technology enables personalized pathways for student learning through active
and collaborative learning activities. Clearly defined sets of learning outcomes
3. guide instruction. The outcomes, and the aligned curriculum, instruction, and
assessment, reflect the multidisciplinary nature of knowledge; prepare students
for our participatory culture through attention to digital literacy and citizenship.
New methodologies to apply new technologies in education.
Technology will play a central role in our lives and by 2020 it’s estimated that
there will be 1.5 million new digitised jobs across the globe. Therefore the
education material and the education methods should be changed. To create a
new smart citizen we consider:
1. Multidisciplinary methodologies: just as you do not learn only with content
but with emotion, you do not have a great program from just one focus. If the
goal is to improve education for the future, and that is only possible if it is not
unidirectional.
2. Participative and active methodologies:
Gamification methodologies, cooperative learning techniques, learning by
doing, learning solving problems…
3. Methodologies that use media and literacy for SXXI.
Social media in education allow learners and educators to post thoughts, ideas,
and comments in an interactive learning environment. Also, students can
characteristics of that educational technology for future smart cities
4. Technology as a tool for learning.
Technology should be used to increase access to learning opportunities for all
children. Guiding Technology may be used to strengthen relationships among
parents, families, early educators, and young children.
- Technology should create new spaces of learning. The learning
space is a content in itself. It is important for the future to change the
spaces and be able to use coherent interactive technologies.
- The walls of the classrooms are no longer a barrier as technology
enables new ways of learning, communicating, and working
collaboratively. Students can collaborate on group projects using
technology-based tools as web 2.0 (google maps to connect with
environment and cities, google docs or presentation tools).
- In the traditional classroom, the teacher is the primary source of
information, and the learners passively receive it. However, because of
4. the access to information and educational opportunity that technology
has enabled, in many classrooms today we see the teacher’s role shifting
to the “guide on the side” as students take more responsibility for their
own learning using technology to gather relevant information.
Future of technology in education.
Advancement of information technology in education will improve
research.
Cloud-Based Education will be the rule, not the exception. This will start
simply, with better aggregation of student metrics, more efficient data sharing,
and more visual assessment results.
E-books – a digital textbook is a PDF on a tablet that students can carry around
and now there is no need to carry five textbooks anymore. It’s all digital.
Augmented reality (AR) as a new way of investigating our context and history
In the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education EXP project, researchers are
addressing how and for what purposes AR technologies can be used to support
the learning of critical inquiry strategies and processes.
Schools function as think-tanks to address local and global challenges such
as clean water, broadband access, human trafficking… And the most important
education: Health education because he smart cities will be unsustainable
without a better health and less cronical diseases and older people.
Cloud-Based Education will be the rule, not the exception. This will start
simply, with better aggregation of student metrics, more efficient data sharing,
and more visual assessment results.
Diverse learning forms begin to supplement school—both inside , including
entrepreneurial learning, invisible learning, question-based learning, and open
source learning.
Global Learning – at sites like Glovico.org, students can set up language
lessons with a native speaker who lives in another country and attend the
lessons via Skype, hangouts, etc. Also, podcasts are another popular learning
method, with hundreds of free educational programs now available online.
Smart cities, happier cities. Making learning fun again – Teachers can now
use videos, animations and other forms of content to enhance the process of
learning. Video Games – simulating real life problems, video games can bring
about behavioral changes in the students by making them more goal-oriented.
Gaming models not only provide a wide range of information but also initiate
students to be problem-solvers.
5. More efficient assessment – teachers can collect real-time assessment data
from their students. When the teacher gives out an assignment, she or he can
watch how far along students are, how much time each one spends on each
question, and whether their answers are correct. With this information, a
teacher can decide what concepts students are struggling with and can pull up
examples of students’ work on a projector for discussion.
Cost Reduction – technology has contributed to significant reductions in the
costs of accessing education. Everything is available online now.
Improved student-teacher Interaction – more and more teachers are now
using technology to keep in touch with their students, for example e-mails and
services like dropbox…
Recommendations for a better learning with technologies in smart cities.
Rethinking classroom design We need classrooms designed for active
learning supplemented by technology, coming equipped with flexible seating
and digital, audio-visual communication tools to enhance learning experiences.
New spaces interconnected. Develop a teaching force skilled in online and
blended instruction. Our education system continues to see a marked increase
in online learning opportunities and blended learning models in traditional
schools. To meet the need this represents better, institutions of higher
education, school districts, classroom educators, and researchers need to come
together to ensure practitioners have access to current information regarding
research-supported practices and an understanding of the best use of emerging
online technologies to support learning in online and blended spaces.
Finally we conclude: “The challenge is not to work harder, but to work smarter”
A Smart and connected education assumes the new reality that we have had
to live and integrates it in its processes of management, teaching and
communication with the outside world (students, parents and families, cultural
and sports spaces, surroundings, health stakeholders, mass media…)
A Smart education ieducators and students who learn to live on the Net, with
networks and networks and take full advantage of the opportunities they offer.
education also needs other contexts (social, cultural, labor) and other
educational systems
This is an education able to use the technology. An intelligent education
Connected with its society, its contexts, with each of the communities it builds. It
is a global and integral education that learns from its technology.
And an education that faces the challenges of the smart city.