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The GKE Learning System focuses on customization, Information
Age skills, project-based learning, innovative process, leadership,
and in-depth achievement.
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The GKE Learning Center provides a technology-assisted, 21st
century environment with unique, Information Age products,
and powerful membership opportunities.
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GKE, itself, brings unique and extraordinary global reach,
international alliances, global business management, and multiple
opportunities for individual and business successes to the
learning environment and opportunities.
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Yet, the human factor of the powerfully trained, GKE educator
remains pivotal.
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Why is a GKE-certified Educator uniquely equipped to mentor
21st century learning success?
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| Will
a GKE Educator have content skills? |
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Yes,
all GKE Educators will be required to have exemplary educational
credentials as well as a content focus area of expertise. |
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| What
value-added expertise can be expected of a GKE-trained Educator? |
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All
GKE-trained educators will be able to augment traditional learning
with 21st century skills of success. They will be trained in
skills of GKE Learning System skills of mentoring and facilitation
that are grounded in both research and practice. GKE-trained
educators will be able to build student-empowered skills, achievements,
and innovations in the emerging technologies. |
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| What
value-added goals can be expected of learning experiences guided
by GKE-trained educators? |
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GKE
Master Educators are trained to develop innovative perspectives
that students utilize in critical thinking, independent project
development, and decision-making processes. |
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| What
are some of the GKE Program Objectives? |
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Simply
stated, the programs develop Information Age skills in: |
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a.
technology
b. communication
c. process
d. innovation
e. leadership
f. team collaboration |
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In
greater specifics, dependent upon the project, the programs
target important goals:
1. Enhance and augment traditional knowledge bases
2. Develop outstanding academic depth and credentials
3. Develop career and workplace readiness through critical
abilities of innovation
4. Facilitate student employment of emerging technologies
as key tools for problem solving, creation, and achievement
5. Create experiences of student empowerment through
direct, decision-making involvement of students in their own
learning processes
6. Build student understanding and application of key,
learning process theories
7. Implement a student process of innovation that includes
key competencies: identify personal needs, interpret and analyze
project goals, create and analyze project process, plan and
access resources, and apply skills and tools of emerging technologies
to project achievement
8. Enhance student development of self-integrity, responsibility
toward self and others, a sense of vigor toward in-depth,
multifaceted achievement, and positive attitudes toward challenges
and new opportunities
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| Why
are GKE Educators trained differently? |
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Edwin
Schlossberg, author of Interactive Excellence has a Ph.D.
in both science and literature from Columbia University. He
designed one of America's first interactive museums, the Brooklyn
Children's Museum. Schlossberg asserts ". . . to change
how we think, we must look from a new perspective."
The GKE program of training supports the deployment of innovative,
student-empowering teaching methodologies. Application of Schlossberg's
"new perspective" in GKE Educators is student-focused:
the active empowerment of students as innovators and decision-makers
within their own learning processes. |
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can best assist our students for productive experiences and
successful careers in the new millennium? The critical readiness
skill is the ability to innovate. |
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Tomorrow's
required ability of creative innovation involves multitasking
in a cooperative environment as well as analytical flexibility.
Yet education, historically, has been a fixed answer institution;
we need to break through stiff barriers and actively teach how
to innovate.
Tomorrow's
tasks will be collaborative and complex; they will require
that thinkers recognize multiple ways of attacking complex
problems and new modes of addressing changing problems. Today's
learner, tomorrow's worker, has to explore different approaches
and still come to recognizable achievement and completion.
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GKE
training is designed to teach innovation that can be facilitated
in student learning. It explores 21st century opportunities
and essential skills such as the preparation of multimedia presentations,
digital activities, penetration of process, sustaining to full
product and achievement, innovative leadership, team collaboration,
and independent plans that can assist learners in understanding
and employing an original process of innovation. |
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| Why
do GKE Educators have to learn to individualize and customize
learning? |
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GKE
Programs and Projects have a critical independent projects opportunity
component that seeks to create and facilitate new, technology-assisted
perspectives. Independent projects will be individually planned
and implemented through Independent Student Lesson Planning,
collaborative learning techniques, and intensive, teacher-mentor
facilitation.
Projects
designed may include but not be limited to possibilities such
as distance learning projects, electronic publishing projects,
interpretative multimedia projects, Internet site projects,
as well as web-based learning projects.
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| Will
the learners working with GKE Educators follow rote, one-size-fits-all
learning patterns? |
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Learning
will be based upon knowledge, analysis, thinking, and creation.
Students will collaboratively learn, discuss, and explore theories
in process, creativity, and learning. Students will research
and present innovative models of creativity, and they will examine
and discuss futurist theories. |
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Then,
students will apply these concepts as they design, plan, and
implement challenging, independent projects in the emerging
technologies. There will be collaborative learning and explorations
of software and hardware. Students will be guided by, but they
also will share with the instructor in aspects of leadership
that include opportunities for teaching, planning, and decision-making
roles. Students will be asked to analyze, evaluate, and assist
in the resolution of project issues and problems. There will
be self-evaluation, peer evaluation, as well as teacher mentoring,
critiquing, and evaluation. |
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| Is
there an established basis of research for the unique GKE Learning
System and the training of the GKE Educators? |
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The
GKE Learning System is unique in that it is cutting edge. It
brings together established educational concepts and best practices,
established industry models, educational methodologies utilized
in a United States Gifted and Talented class and Honors curriculum,
and the award-winning projects of a United States National Technology
and Learning Teacher of the Year. Its strategies have award-winning
proof-of-concept projects that have received national and international
recognition.
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addition, the GKE programs and GKE training for educational
integration with the emerging technologies and the GKE independent
project focus are grounded in multiple intelligences theory
and practice, committed to interactive challenges in technology-assisted
learning, and focused upon in-depth achievement, valid choices
and responsibilities interwoven with collaborative and independent
explorations. The course is developed upon the Harvard researcher,
Howard Gardner's assertion that "we need models that
take seriously individual profiles of intelligence and seek
to maximize the educational achievements of each person."
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| What
are some of the things covered in the training of the GKE Educator? |
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>>Introduction
of intellectual concepts to ground student process and choice:
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Multimedia
presentations are utilized to present the initial concepts and
process theories necessary for productive involvement in innovation
and Individualized Student Lesson Planning educational methodologies
that are integral to the GKE Learning System.
Additional, multimedia presentation material utilizing student
resources developed in award-winnnng programs provides further
models of process and innovation; it is perceived that 21st
century educational training will be an on-going process of
development. |
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>>Introduction
of futurist theory, current and historical models of creative
innovation |
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Multimedia
presentations are utilized to introduce to futurist theories
and models of creative innovation.
Student and GKE Educator resources are archived for the use
of educators and learners, who are exploring models of creative
innovation. This electronic GKE archive will be a growing, unique
resource available to learners, educators, and institutions
within the GKE alliance and when appropriate, may be shared
outside of the GKE alliance. Learners and educators will be
encouraged by GKE to take strong, positive leadership roles
in modeling and advocating innovation in global education's
development of learning and its unifying potential within our
world's social structure. |
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>>Presentation
of emerging technology's role in projects designed to employ
and appeal to the multiple intelligences and brain-based, technology-assisted
theories of interactivity |
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Multimedia
media presentations will be used to introduce students to the
employment and use of emerging technologies and to assist learners
in experiencing and analyzing technology's role in enhancing
understanding and learning. |
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>>Individualized
Lesson Planning in the Emerging Technologies |
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GKE
Educators will be encouraged to take active roles as leaders
in the development of educational methodologies best-suited
for the emerging technologies projects.
GKE Educators will be trained to employ researched learning
theories to facilitate individualized lesson planning focused
upon the learner achievement of a Independent Project development
employing the emerging technologies.
GKE Educators will be trained to guide collaborative planning
supported by teacher-mentored facilitation, to utillize documented,
individualized lesson planning, so that each student can be
encouraged properly to work toward individualized, project achievement.
Based upon feedback gleaned from Student Feedback and Process
Reflection Reports, GKE Educators will be trained to develop
continual refinements that will be implemented in both the individualized
lesson planning methodologies as well as the selection and development
of Independent Projects. |
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| Are
GKE Educators taught to evaluate and assess? |
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GKE
Educators are taught cutting edge assessment strategies. Independent
project work is evaluated upon process as well as product. Learner
self-reflection is integrated as well as teacher assessment
of project depth, organization, innovative challenge, and learning
goals.
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there a relationship between GKE Learning Centers and GKE Educators?
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The
powerful educational strategies and skills that GKE-certified
educators and facilitators possess
make them powerful assets in the successful deployment of GKE
Learning Centers. |
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