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Apparently, the interactive nature of a knowledgebased society and a knowledge-based economy mandates the ability to collaborate.
“Those who have successfully created cultures of innovation and creativity suggest that one key is to… embrace participation, collaboration, networking…” Collaboration and teamwork is such a key element to many aspects of life - it appears everywhere, and this skill comes in handy later in life in many situations, maybe even tomorrow. It took me a slight bit of willingness to give collaboration and teamwork a shot and understand what is behind it, it’s not just wanted or unwanted socialization, like I thought before, it might be the key to building a business empire, for all I can know. In the modern age, when a lot of the things are already invented, it’s hard to come up with something new on your own. It’s the innovation that rarely takes place in just one head. It’s the multiple people interacting in different ways, through …show more content…
It’s important that different countries approach the rapidly changing world with confidence, however, I don’t see my country, Latvia, doing that any time soon, because most of the teachers are elderly, are not trained to use the new technology school equipment, and it scares the teachers to use them in front of the classroom, which forbids them of using any new 21st century method and it is very unfortunate that my home country can’t provide a modern type of education.
Overall, every single one of us subconsciously has the potential to acquiring skills for the 21st century education successfully, we just have to think, come to conclusions and assess ourselves rationally and use these skills in our everyday lives, inside and outside the classroom. I think it is clear that possessing all of the particular skills, leads any of us to a more successful and a less stressful life, especially for students, in the hectic 21st century when it seems like 24 hours in a day is not
“Those who have successfully created cultures of innovation and creativity suggest that one key is to… embrace participation, collaboration, networking…” Collaboration and teamwork is such a key element to many aspects of life - it appears everywhere, and this skill comes in handy later in life in many situations, maybe even tomorrow. It took me a slight bit of willingness to give collaboration and teamwork a shot and understand what is behind it, it’s not just wanted or unwanted socialization, like I thought before, it might be the key to building a business empire, for all I can know. In the modern age, when a lot of the things are already invented, it’s hard to come up with something new on your own. It’s the innovation that rarely takes place in just one head. It’s the multiple people interacting in different ways, through …show more content…
It’s important that different countries approach the rapidly changing world with confidence, however, I don’t see my country, Latvia, doing that any time soon, because most of the teachers are elderly, are not trained to use the new technology school equipment, and it scares the teachers to use them in front of the classroom, which forbids them of using any new 21st century method and it is very unfortunate that my home country can’t provide a modern type of education.
Overall, every single one of us subconsciously has the potential to acquiring skills for the 21st century education successfully, we just have to think, come to conclusions and assess ourselves rationally and use these skills in our everyday lives, inside and outside the classroom. I think it is clear that possessing all of the particular skills, leads any of us to a more successful and a less stressful life, especially for students, in the hectic 21st century when it seems like 24 hours in a day is not