Science identity theory supports a major role for mentors in helping mentees to develop scientific knowledge competence, to learn to practice science, and in recognizing mentees as scientists (Carlone and Johnson, 2007).
The lower age limit of 3 years for the first inclusion criterion is chosen because in the included group 3-year-old children are estimated to be the youngest that may have the competence to learn to play the easiest active video games of Wii™ Fit (Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan).
I would use digital games for collaborative learning activities to develop students' life skills (for example, communication skills, mathematical competence, competences in science and technology, digital competence, learning to learn competence, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship competences and cultural awareness and expression) 17.
These are, communication in the mother tongue; communication in foreign languages; mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; social and civic competences; sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and cultural awareness and expression.
The aim of the on-the-job expert interviews was to evaluate ALUSIM's tasks with regard to the Swiss construct 'commercial competence' and to learn more about the applicability of ALUSIM's tasks to Swiss commercial job requirements.
Dreyfus [ 9] notes that when people learn a skill, in order to reach competence, they need to learn to devise a plan or perspective that determines which of the elements of the skill must be treated as important and those that can be ignored.
UNICEF (2010) has drafted an Integrated Quality Framework for ECDiE which provides a globally recognized detailed and comprehensive definition of ECD: "Early childhood development refers to the processes through which a young child under eight years develops his/her optimal physical health, mental alertness, emotional confidence, social competence and readiness to learn.
Finally, we analyze the results of the research that open wide possibilities for structured pedagogical actions in developing the learning to learn competence, especially in the educational intervention programs to stimulate critical reflection, metacognitive reflection and strategic decisions making for students with learning difficulties.
Instead, the HCP's should recognise the family members' competence and be willing to learn from them [ 4].
A learning network consists of individuals who are willing to exchange expertise and experiences and to search collectively for new insights, aimed at sustainable changes in knowledge, attitude, competences and the capacity to learn (De Laat et al. 2001; Zinsmeister 2012).
Generally speaking, plant behaviour is still assumed to be rather rigid, stereotyped and inflexible, and even when plants demonstrate cognitive competences such as the ability to learn, for example, their learning capacity is widely considered to be fully pre-programmed.
