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=Welcome to KADS Global Educational Services= Your Leader in Project Based Global Education

** KADS' Mission ** KADS Global Educational Services sees the future of education as collaborative by utilizing the power of Collective Intelligence (CI), and the conduit to this collaboration is project-based learning. Youth are no longer satisfied with the status quo, they want answers and expect immediate gratification, and if they do not get what they need in the classroom, they will seek it once the school day has ended. We can help develop a strategy to move toward the classroom of 2025 today. **Introduction** The world is in a global technological renaissance. Industry has changed. Society has changed. Commerce has changed. But has education changed? It is no secret that technology continues to change and grow at a rapid pace and the world is becoming more connected through technological means. Connecting and sharing has become much easier with different Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and various Google Apps. In addition, smart phones have allowed people to connect and share from virtually anywhere and at anytime. media type="youtube" key="2DTUDczwtyc" height="316" width="563" align="right" Education must do more to help students keep pace with these new tools. Today’s educational landscape bears a strong resemblance to the classroom of 100 years ago. Students of the digital age need more from their education than listening to lectures, worksheets, and hours of homework. Educating our learners using the same model that has been employed for more than a century does a disservice not only to the learners, but to their future employers as well. Students need to be problem solving and collaborating with their peers in the classroom and from around the world as one mind will not be sole expert anymore. The first video displayed on this page summarizes the 21st century skills that students need in order to keep up with the changing world.

**The table below is a comparison of the old education paradigm to the new paradigm of now and the future...**  ** Keeping up with new skills and technology **  media type="youtube" key="RWxqSEMXWuw" height="254" width="430" align="right" There is a rapid increase in the growth of information which will continue to accelerate into the future. Classrooms will be designed to maximize the potential of these new technologies, and to keep pace as this evolution continues. There will be collapse of the time period between the development of an idea or invention and its practical application into society. Therefore, newer technologies will be adopted and modified/adapted at a quick pace. The education sector will have to focus on new competencies required for the future job markets; which means that education will have to prepare the students for the jobs that have yet to be invented. Technological fluency will become a basic skill for every learner. It is also assumed with a lot of confidence that bandwidth will become free in near future hence access to internet and its speed will cease to be an issue. Learners will be using the compact portable technologies and these gadgets will facilitate their learning anytime/anywhere. The video gives one a glimpse into what the future may look like. Are our students prepared to keep up with these advanced technologies?
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**Challenges to Overcome...** - Current availability of technology around the world and lack of infrastructure to support new technologies in developing countries - Professional Development of Teachers and a true definition of "digital literacy" amongst the education community is not established (Horizon Report, 2011) - Language gaps in the global village of the world. Students will need to know more than one language to communicate with others world wide. - Accountability of Learning. Current standardized tests may not reflect the 21st century skills that students are learning and a system will need to be in place if students are not learning

**Our Vision** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Our members, Katrina Strauss, Anita Gorski, Dan Le, and Shweta Perswal (KADS), envision that by 2025 the learning environment will evolve to be more global. Our vision conceptualizes a society where every learner is an educator and every educator is a learner. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">· We believe that utilizing Collective Intelligence (CI) and facilitating Problem Based Learning (PBL) will be the gateway to move forward in this ever-evolving technological world, and we are working together to make this vision happen. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">· Learning in the future will not be confined within the four walls of a classroom nor will it be confined within a building. Instead, the learning environment will consist of a space where students can gather to collaborate and problem solve in person or virtually. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">· Teachers will learn through networking and proper professional development to keep up with the latest trends and changes in education and, with financial support, be able to sustain our vision for 21st century learning. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Our goal is to identify the key components that will affect teaching and learning in the future and use those components to propose changes to the schools and learning environments of 2025. The main ideas of our proposal discuss Curriculum and Pedagogy, Learning Spaces, and Sustaining the Vision.