Cultivating Future-Oriented Learners

Dr. Yael Yondler is an educator and researcher. She leads the Learning Design path of the Master's program in Technology in Education at Kibbutzim College of Education. An educational assessment specialist, she trains assessment coordinators. She trains and leads academic and other learning teams and communities in knowledge-building and learning design in hybrid spaces. Dr. Yondler's post-doctoral research on digital literacy was conducted at the Learning Technologies and Learning Systems Program of the Open University of Israel.

Dr. Nissim Avissar is a clinical-social psychologist, teacher educator, and qualitative researcher. He heads the teaching-advancement units at Kibbutzim College of Education and trains educators and therapists. His expertise covers cultural sensitivity, social-emotional learning (SEL), resilience building, and coping with trauma and crisis. His current academic research and writings focus on ethnic and class gaps in education and resilience building in a complicated violent reality.

Dr. Dovi Weiss is Head of Digital Learning & Training Development Specialization (B.A) at Ono Academic College. He also consults various organizations on effective and innovative learning, particularly in educational technology. Until 2021, he headed the digital pedagogy unit and management team at Kibbutzim College for 7 years. He was the Pedagogical Founder of Et Hada'at (www.timetoknow.co.il) and its Chief Scientist during 2005-2019. In 2010, Dr. Weiss was declared one of Israel's 50 most influential people in education. In 2012, he received an Honorable Mention from Israel's Prime Minister in the Initiatives and Innovation award Competition for his pioneering work in Educational Technology.

Preface -A Polyphonic Humanizing View of Pedagogy and Technology.- Foreword: Evolving Polyphonic Education in a Teacher Training CollegeConceptual framework 
Technology, Values, Pedagogy, and Multiple Learning Spaces:Creating a "New Whole" in a Complex Reality.- Part I-    Towards Inclusion: Acknowledging Cultural Differences.- Amazing Race: Collaborative Learning, Gamification, and the Virtual World.- Creating Collaborative Multicultural and Multidimensional Teaching Tasks from Non-Teaching Specific Materials.-  Social Media, Embodiment, and Movement to Create a Holistic Teacher Training Experience.- Part II -  Ecohumanistic Awareness: Caring for the Glocal Environment.- Exploring Natural Resources through Transformative Sustainability Education.- Sustainability, Literature and Art in Various Spaces: "Between the Trees and the Non-Trees".- Part III- Dialogues in Action: Accepting Others' Perspectives.- Four Mothers in the Face of Four Screens: A Multicultural Debate in the Digital Space.- Experience with a Worthy Public Discussion, Based on the Ideas of Dewey.- Reading and Playing: Promoting Reading of Literature Via a Digital Game.- Part IV: Self-Regulated Learning: Fostering Autonomous Learning Skills.- Learning how to learn' in light of the Universal Design for Learning approach.- The Challenge: How to preserve the human values embedded in a pedagogical course during the transition from the physical environment to the online environment.- Space Education: Training Teachers to Face Challenges in an Era of Uncertainty.- Multiple Intelligences and PBL in the Digital Space Students design and create an applicative product in a collaborative environment.- Active Viewing:
Multiple-Screen Learning in a Future Learning Space.- Epilogue Holding both ends of the stick: humanistic empowerment and technological power in the service of education and learning.