Round Table

"We will have recognised that most of learning happens outside of school which has moved from an isolated silo where pupils meet teachers to a "learning hub" where the whole community meet in a spirit of community development. Through school and college twinnings, in Europe and beyond, every child will have the ability to work with other teachers and pupils from other countries, learning many different languages simultaneously: maths in German, science in French, arts in Italian. (...)
We speak a lot about "learning to learn", while it should be accompanied by "learning to teach", as being conscious of one's ability to teach raises one's understanding of her ability to learn
One of the slogans might be: 'every pupil is a teacher, every teacher is a learner!'"
Serge Ravet
CEO of EIfEL, VP of EFQUEL

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"I am not sure anyone can predict 15 years off. But education will look like a "distributed" activity that happens in schools and universities but also in companies, online, in peer groups, etc, and all of that will be simultaneous - meaning that people won't be going to high school first and then to university and then do a master, but will educate themselves at different levels at the same time. Yes, I know, education is supposed to be incremental, linear, there are notions that you need to have acquired before being in a position to acquire other notions, but the Internet is already shaking that up, there are sectors where pupils and students know more than teachers."
Bruno Giussani
Author, journalist, Co-Founder, Tinext SA, Switzerland

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On behalf of European Schoolnet, its Policy and Innovation Committee is undertaking a survey about visions of the future of education. A set of questions has been sent out to experts across Europe requesting short statements on personal visions, expected barriers to that vision and possible R&D work that could contribute to making that vision a reality. To date some 30 answers have been received. These will be presented in Bruges.
Here are the questions:
- What is your personal vision of education in 5-10 years time? How, where, when and what will we learn? What will education look like? What technology will we use?
- What are the biggest challenges facing your organisation in contributing to that vision? What additional resources (support, knowledge, funding, expertise) would you need to meet that challenge?
- With these questions in mind, if you had the chance to experiment through a funded research project to address any issue or topic you wished and you could involve any expert or organisation, what would you do?

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Dear participants in the EUN Round Table, speakers, panellist and visitors.

I am delighted to post the first audio entry in this blog. Please use the flash player below to listen to it. This format will be used through the conference and before so watch this space for future entries. Feel free to post comments and give suggestions. We have also created a podcast to which you can subscribe.

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Welcome to the blog of the Round Table "Imagining the future of schooling", Bruges 7-8 December 2006.

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