Category Archives: 21st century skills

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In this interesting article for EdTech magazine, digital citizenship is defined as ” a set of responsibilities all internet users should practice”. The issue of digital citizenship is gaining momentum worldwide and, given the early age at which children start to use internet, it has …

“Incorporating “digital citizenship” lessons in school curricula”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The challenges posed by our current fast-paced, mobile, complex and multicultural world require using increasingly diverse sets of skills. Studies such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), have shown that social and …

“Expanding the traditional focus on cognitive skills to embrace social and emotional ones”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Bias and discrimination are “creeping” more and more into day-to-day (automated) decisions on access to jobs, credit, parole and many more areas. In a recent talk at EmTech Digital, Tess Posner, Executive Director at AI4ALL, says that AI systems are only as fair and ethical …

“Including diversity in AI can help to minimise bias and also makes good business sense”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Is it still acceptable, in a world which is increasingly connected, mobile and multicultural, to only speak one language? Fabrice Jaumont*, author of the “The Bilingual Revolution, the Future of Education is in Two Languages”, opened his keynote speech at the US Language Advocacy Day …

“Is monolingualism “the illiteracy of the 21st Century”?”

Several competitions between the latest generation of machine translation (MT) systems and panels of experienced human translators have been staged and made it into the news. This may have some entertainment value and, for now, bring old school translators some respite but, in my view, it misses the point entirely. Blog titles along the lines …

“Why it’s High Time to Prepare Skills Sets and Role Models for Man-Machine Translation (MMT)”