Workshop slides: PELLTA (Penang English Language Learning and Teaching Association) Annual General Meeting- 22 June 2019 Workshop Title: Developing Future Skills in Rural and Semi-Rural Schools

1. Developing Future Skills in
Rural and Semi-Rural Schools
Amin Neghavati
PELLTA AGM Workshop
22 June 2019
Penang- Bayview Hotel George Town

2. Getting to know each other

3. When did you start teaching?
What skills did a teacher need when you
started?
What skills does a teacher need now?

4. The skills that got you to where you are
today are not the skills you will need for
the future.
LinkedIn Future of Skills APAC Report- June 2019

5. World Economic Forum- 2016

6. What skills do you think will be important in
2022?

7. World Economic Forum
2022 skills outlook
Source: Future of Jobs Report 2018, World Economic Forum

9. LinkedIn Future of Skills APAC Report- June 2019

10. Deep Learning Competencies
deep learning is the process of acquiring
these six global competencies:
character, citizenship,
collaboration, communication,
creativity, and critical thinking.

11. Malaysia

12. Malaysia Education Blueprint

13. Malaysia Education Blueprint

14. Interpersonal Communication Skills
Collaboration
Creativity
Digital Skills
Future Core Competencies
“This is an opportunity to automate the work and humanise the job.”
Graham Brown-Martin

15. Skills vs. Literacy
“It is more about what we do with
technology in terms of information, e.g.
producing information, generating ideas
and sharing them more widely.”
(Bruce, 2013)

16. Digital Literacy
Hugh & Payton (FutureLab, 2010)

17. learner-generated contexts:
Contexts created by people interacting
together with a common, self-defined
learning goal.
production vs usage  produsage (Axel Bruns, 2006)

18. What do you use the internet for?
consume
create
digital natives
digital immigrants

19. digital residents
with digital wisdom

20. The development of digital literacies depends
heavily on the teachers’ own context(s) and
should be socially negotiated.
Dough Belshaw (2012)

21. Resources
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/image
s/0021/002134/213475e.pdf
https://thedigitalteacher.com/

22. Strategies for engaging children
with digital literacy (Brent 2012)
• Creating educational applications for tools children are
already familiar with
• Enabling children to engage with a broader audience
• Facilitating links with local organisations
• Encouraging children to create digital artefacts
• Integrate digital literacy into children’s research skills

23. “When you post online,
you post to the world.”
Digital Citizenship Safety (UNICEF)

24. Keep in touch
@neghavati
www.linkedin.com/in/AminNeghavati