ACE On The Road 2009
Erica touched the heart of educators, as her presentation made teachers rethink their pedagogical practices. She highlighted the technique of teaching, the
'meddler in the middle' as the guide to teaching in the 21st century times.
Erica visited Hobart, Melbourne, Canberra, Tamworth, Sydney and Brisbane from May 7 to May 19 and her presentation reached over 550 educators around Australia.
In her presentations Erica focused educators' attention on the value of weaving the best techniques of the Sage on the Stage, the Guide on the Side and the Meddler in the Middle.
In her discussion of the teacher as meddler in the middle, Erica identified three sets of 21st Century Skills:
- academic functional
- aesthetic digital
- dynamic interactive
Students must embrace the rigour of learning and teachers must be teaching fit. It is to be remembered according to Erica that when the teacher sits down the students lie down. Passitivity in teaching is the greatest enemy to learning.
Erica and her audience were united as one voice of the profession, in the recognition that quality teachers do make a difference and that teaching technique is important.
Click here to download an order form for Erica's book ' The Creative Workforce - How to Launch Young People into High-flying Futures'
Click here to download Erica's powerpoint presentation (2MB).
Click here to download Erica's paper 'Education More Important and less relevant'
The challenges of educating for the twenty-first century - what Daniel Pink (2005) calls the "Conceptual Age" - are greater than ever. Unlike the "Information Age", whose core business has been the routine accessing of information to solve routine problems, the "Conceptual Age" invests in, and springs from, new cultural forms and modes of consumption that demand "high concept" and "high touch" capacities from a highly creative workforce.