We are glad to announce that the 2^nd Study Visit of the project has successfully started on Monday October 10^th, and is hosted by Symbiosis Law School in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The Study Visit includes both online and face-to-face meetings and aims to train more than 200 in-service teachers from across 3 states.

All project partners and university leaders from the partner organisations have been participating in the project meetings, and in the next 3 days they will be conducting training programmes and workshops to promote the concept of 21^st Century Skills. The overall objective is to create an impact on the education system of the project’s Asian partner countries India, China, and Cambodia.

The Study Visit has been covered by press mentions in today’s newspapers and tv stations - some of which you may find here, here and here.

In July 2022, Shenzhen Polytechnic as a pilot institute joined into the BITL(Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET) project led by UNESCO-UNEVOC, for the pilot phase of “Self-Reflection Tool(SRT) on qualifications and competencies”. It is about the co-development of a SRT on national qualification and competencies (NQC) together with selected pilot TVET providers. Shenzhen Polytechnic is as one of the 8 providers from Africa, Asia and Europe during 2022.

During the pilot study, the project members of the project “Teacher training with specialization on life and information technology skills/21^st TS” in SZPT, had been selected into the teaching staff group and participated into the workshop for presenting their good practices on adequately training teaching and training personnel based on the 21^st TS project.

An online meeting for the preparation of the second study visit to Pune India held on 30th September, 2022. The last practical arrangements and the finalization of the agenda discussed with all the partners. Also discussion on the appointment of an external evaluator was initiated by the coordinator UOI.

21^st TS – 2^nd Study Visit

The second study visit of the project is hosted by Symbiosis Law School Pune, constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University) in Pune, Maharashtra, India during October 10^th to 15^th, 2022. The meetings will be hybrid with physical meetings in Pune, India and online joining on MS Teams Platform.

The first days will be dedicated for the Project Meeting, where all project partners will meet and discuss about the progress of the meeting, while the next days will be full of training programmes and workshops for in-service teachers.

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Qinyi Tan, Fang He, Luyan Teng

Southwest University (China)

With the support of the Erasmus+ project "Teacher training with specialization on life and information technology skills - 21st TS", this study investigates the public’s attention to the educational policy “double reduction” and analyzes its trend and distribution, to know the public’s attention after the release of the educational policy of double reduction. Using the Baidu Index, one of the important information technology skills, as the research tool and the “double reduction” policy as the keyword, putting emphasis on information literacy and educational technology related to the 21st century skills. The attention and characteristics of Internet users for the “double reduction” policy were obtained from three aspects: trend research, demand map, and crowd portrait. It is found that the search trend of the word “double reduction" increased first and then decreased. The public pays the most attention to the “double reduction policy” and “what is the double reduction policy”. The groups paying attention to the “double reduction" is mainly distributed in Guangdong, Zhejiang province, and Jiangsu province, and most of them are women aged 30 ~ 39. At the same time, the search trend of the word “double reduction policy” is like that of "double reduction”. In conclusion, Baidu Index is a research instrument to study the trend of keyword search, gain insight into the change in Internet users’ demand and monitor the trend of media public opinion. The influencing factors of the change in the search volume of the word “double reduction” include the implementation of the “double reduction” policy issued by the Ministry of Education, the rectification of educational and training institutions, etc. The public is more inclined to understand the “double reduction policy” and “what is the double reduction policy”.

Under the project "Teacher training with specialization on life and information technology skills - 21st TS" School of Education, Banasthali Vidyapith has introduced Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge course for Bachelor of Education Program, for 2022-24 batch. Through this course in each academic session around 100 pupil teachers would be able to be aware about Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, social networking and learning, game-based learning and many more.

Study material developed under this project will help to enhance 21^st century skills among prospective teachers. An orientation program organized for prospective teachers on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge with laboratory activities.