The Global Curriculum

Teachers and students exploring the internet's educational possibilities and

termed "internauts" trailblazers and this new education frontier nor limited by distance or
national boundaries.

What are some the options open to today's internauts?

The global village created by the internet is real, but the content of its curriculum
is still being shaped. If you were to design a "Curriculum for the World “what issues,
concepts, and skills would you include?

• Educators investigating a world-based curriculum call their work as Global

Education

•The rate of technological innovation is so fast that even as today's applications

are being disseminated, newer ones are being tested.

Will the next generation of computers continue the trend towards less
expensive, smaller, yet more powerful machines, yielding pocket computers that
outperform today’s desktop?

Will the next generation of computers converse with us, eliminating the need
for keyboard skills and programming?

Will we be able to print letters and papers simply by speaking, or will simply
thinking out thoughts be enough to create computer command?

The Use of Computers in Education?

Computers in education enable us to:

• Teach more effectively

• Reach and teach more students
• Make the world our classroom
 • Turn latchkey kids into connected kids
• Get ready for the future.

Computers in Education disable us because:

• Effective teaching all but disappears

• The digital world remains divided
• Student risk becoming antisocial
• Computers are a health risk
• Fundamental skills are sidelined

How will the predicted changes affect education and schooling in the future?

Education is a complex, social, cultural, and political phenomenon. While it is

relatively simple to predict that present technological trends will one-day result in a
computer capable of responding to human vocal commands, it is far less certain how, if
at all such development may impact the education.

According to Lewis Perelman, there is a strong case of education transformation.

He argued that knowledge acquisition is no longer something that happens only in
school; now it’s occurs everywhere and is lifelong.

The following are some of the possible outcomes of the process of change:

• Multimedia learning resources available via information networks, will proliferate

and become an essential feature of education.
• Learners and teachers alike will have access to powerful portable computing
devices that will be wirelessly connected to network resources.
• Learning increasingly will take place in authentic contexts and focus on authentic
tasks.
• Students will become active learners, collaborating with one another and with
more experienced members of society, to seek out information and gain more
knowledge.
 • Teachers' roles will tend to shift from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the
side."
• Education will become a lifelong process, important and accessible to all, and
schools will become centers of learning - not just for children, but for all members
of the community.
• The artificial divisions of grade levels will disappear.
• The boundaries separating schools from each other and the community will blur
or disappear.

Education and Industry

"Jobs and skills should match." One of the directs in finding a job is the mismatch
of skills possessed by the graduates and the requirements of the job. To solve the
problem in mismatch in skills and the requirements of the jobs.

President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo issued an executive order creating a new

path called LADDERIZED SYSTEM OF EDUCATION and TRAINING, converging the
TVET system of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and
the Higher Education Programs of the Commission on Higher Education.

The basic features of the system are as follows:

• students and trainees acquire technical and vocational skills

• after the training the graduates apply for jobs and get employed
• When they decide later to continue their studies to earn a college degree. • One
of the outstanding features of the ladderized system is the portability of credits
earned in a TESDA registered program to a college graduates who will enroll in a
related TVET program will earn the equivalent credits.
• This innovation program of partnering for jobs is perhaps the solution to the
problem of mismatch in the competencies and skills of graduates and the
requirements of employers.