New Media in Education and Talent Development Prof. Dr. Fernando Salvetti, PhD
www.fernandosalvetti.info
New Media in Education and Talent Development
www.fernandosalvetti.info
www.fernandosalvetti.info
New Media in Education and Talent Development
Who are the talented people (at work or at school)? How do you screen and identify talented people? How can education programs and practices enrich people’s learning opportunities? What are the most effective approaches? What are the most promising new media? How new media in education effectively collaborate in support of talent development?
www.fernandosalvetti.info
www.fernandosalvetti.info
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Talent Development: Key‐Points ‐ 1 Our world today is aggressively globalized. The disparate regions are connected through technology, the movement of capital, the rapid circulation of information, media, fashion, and the migration of millions of people each year. No individual or society can cordon itself off from the rest of humankind. We are in need of different minds: ‐ The Disciplined Mind that has attained genuine expertise in at least one area. ‐ The Creating Mind that is able to think outside the box – to come up with new problems, new methods, new solutions and new paradigms. ‐ The Synthesizing Mind that invokes a set of criteria in deciding what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ‐ The Respectful Mind that recognizes that the world is composed of people of multifarious backgrounds, belief systems and appearances. Our planet needs mutual comprehension in all possible meanings. ‐ The Ethical Mind that asks questions such as: To whom or what am I responsible, and for what things? The most important thing that we can do, as educators, whether at school or in the workplace, is to hone talents who themselves embody the five kinds of minds.
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Talent Development: Key‐Points – 2
Talent Development: Key‐Points ‐ 2
It is not possible anymore to continue offering education in the traditional way. If the educational institutions (schools and universities, first of all) do not adjust their methods, they will run the risk of being marginalized by the new trends of knowledge production and sharing: from peer to peer production to experiential learning, without omitting the home‐ schooling experience. The primary economic resources are not the financial capital and neither is work itself or the natural resources, but the human and intellectual capital. From the learners perspective, a great result is the awareness that knowledge is a mix of rationality and rationalization, of true and false intuitions, inductions, syllogisms and paralogisms, ways of saying and doing things, personal opinions and shared beliefs.
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Talent Development: Key‐Points – 3
Talent Development: Key‐Points ‐ 3
Who are the talented people (at work or at school)? Those with a relevant cognitive flexibility. How do you screen and identify talented people? Looking at the way they are used to think outside the box showing a synthesizing mind (honed by their meta‐cognitive skills). With a respectful and responsible approach (internal locus of control). How can education programs and practices enrich people’s learning opportunities? Fostering their meta‐cognitive skills and maps, mainly through cooperative and peer‐to‐peer learning, cross‐fertilization, system thinking. What are the most effective approaches? Those relying on the learners, with a low power distance index in‐between learners and learning facilitators (teachers or experts) – because learning is a process of social action and engagement involving several ways of thinking, doing and communicating. What are the most promising new media? The ones (already on the stage) based on communities of practice, mobile and “glo‐cal” learning, knowledge visualization and immersive experiences.
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Talent Development: Key‐Points ‐ 4
Talent Development: Key‐Points ‐ 4
How new media in education effectively collaborate in support of talent development? Developing ‐ as well as being developed by ‐ communities of practice. Making tangible the intangible through knowledge visualization. Immersing people within micro‐worlds where real‐ life situations can truly be experienced ‐ not only simulated. A disruptive innovation: e‐REAL as an immersive learning lab to develop talented people both at work than at school. e‐REAL is an environment that immerses the learners into an augmented (or enhanced) reality where real‐life situations can truly be experienced ‐ not only simulated ‐ and the necessary lessons learned without the disadvantage of a negative impact should mistakes occur. Another relevant solution: the Knowledge Pills. Highly concentrated courses, designed to address a topic through multiple representations, following a recursive, non‐cumulative, logic, as pointed out by the Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT) methodology. The pills have been designed to meet the educational challenges posed by the transition from an industrial to an information age. They focus on promoting the capacity to deal with uncertainties and solve problems in an adaptive way.
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Summary Fernando is a knowledge entrepreneur with a global footprint. As an educator, lawyer, epistemologist and cultural anthropologist (BA ‐ MA ‐ MBA ‐ DJ ‐ PhD), he is used to delivering key‐note speeches and executive education, teaching at graduate and post‐graduate programs, advising corporations and governments across the globe on cultural intelligence, global communication, leadership development, scenario analysis, strategic thinking, advanced learning methodologies, communication of science and technology, as well as knowledge transfer. He also works with educational institutions (universities, business schools, medical schools, vocational schoolsand Managing and colleges, museums, Founder Partner theaters, etc.) on knowledge visualization, experiential and immersive learning, curricula development, anthropology of knowledge and cross‐cultural intelligence.
Specialties Leadership development, scenario analysis, strategic thinking. Education and training, lifelong learning and capacity building. Mentoring, coaching, personal training and people development. Cross‐cultural intelligence, international business and anthropology. Communication of science and technology, knowledge transfer and cross‐fertilization.
Affiliations American Society for Training and Development, American Anthropological Society, American Philosophical Practitioners Association, European Association for International Education, European Association for People Management, Italian Training Association, Swiss Lifelong Learning Federation, Rotary International, Swiss‐American Chamber of Commerce and the Swiss HR Association.