L’éducation à la citoyenneté ça commence souvent de façon très concrète, comme ici, avec un manifeste pour une circulation libre et responsable des enfants dans l’école.

« Le Centre St-Michel de Sherbrooke, un centre de formation générale pour les adultes, offre même un cours de formation pour toute la famille et c’est centré sur l’ordinateur. Le programme Samedi d’apprendre l’ordi a ceci de particulier c’est que les inscriptions sont réservées aux familles, c’est à dire qu’il faut qu’au moins un des parents y assiste avec les enfants. » (La Tribune)

« The Lifelong Kindergarten group aims to re-invent learning and education in a digital society. We develop new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten, expand the range of what people design and create — and what they learn in the process. Our ultimate goal is a world of playfully creative people, who are constantly inventing new possibilities for themselves and their communities. » (Research at the MIT Media Lab: Lifelong Kindergarten)

« This project is intended as an ambitious experiment to help bring new ways of working with local communities in order to help create long-term self-sufficiency through the introduction of new methodologies and new technologies. The idea is that using computational technologies (i.e. low/alternative power and low-cost technologies) can open not only new possibilities for development, but also new ways of learning and working. These opportunities can result in a deeper understanding of the environment and of applicable innovations leading to self-sufficiency. The methods used should take a systemic view and actively encourage and support sustainability, sustainable development, active participation, ownership by and empowerment of local communities, and integrated participative evaluation processes. » (Research at the MIT Media Lab: The Future of Learning)

« CRCP@MIT is organized around one fundamental question: If we are in a social, political and economic era in which information and knowledge are substantive forms of capital, what are the tools, processes, and strategies that can support poor and underserved communities in cultivating this form of capital for their own development? » (more…)

Sir John Daniel, sous-directeur général pour l’éducation à l’UNESCO, était récemment de passage à l’Université McGill. Son intervention, brillante, nous invite à beaucoup de pragmatisme relativement aux technologies qui aident à apprendre.

« Daniel cited an article by a woman working in Tanzania who surveyed her female students as to the kind of technology they needed to help their learning.

« They said they needed washers and vacuums so they could speed up their housework and spend more time on their studies, » said Daniel. »(McGill Reporter)

Vous trouverez également ici, le texte complet de la présentation (en pdf) et le matériel d’accompagnement (en ppt).