Visions of future school by Development Centre OPINKIRJO

1. Dreaming about Future School
Minna Riikka Järvinen, PhD, MA, MBA
Executive Director
Development Centre OPINKIRJO
September 20, 2013, Finland

4. 7 survival skills, Wagner 2008,2012
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Critical thinking and problem solving
Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
Agility and adaptability
Initiative and entrepreneurship
Effective oral and written communication
Accessing and analysing information
Curiosity and imagination
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https://www.teachthought.com/learning/21st-century-learning-preparingstudents-for-complex-futures/

6. Dreams about future school
”The world of not knowing is the world of
learning”.

7. School pedagogy of the future
Krokfors et al. 2010

8. Ubiquit
y of
learning
Emergence
Topic based
Freedom,
intrinsic
motivation
Serendipity
Partnership,
coworking

9. Future – or present? - learning
environments
Definition of future learning environments
Boundaries of formal, informal and nonformal learning environments disappear
Co-creation of knowledge - learners active role as a producer of knowledge!
From subject-based learning to topic-based understanding and creation.
Knowledge and skills aquired outside school recognized also in school teaching.
(Saywer 2006; Natritello 2007; Kangas 2010)

10. Entrepreneuship education as means for
developing metacompetences
https://www.teachthought.com/learning/is-entreprenurial-learningthe-way-of-the-future/?ref=nf

11. Relationship Future Skills –
Entrepreneurial Competence
Fig. 1 Process of entrepreneurial competence
The main idea of the figure 1 is that entrepreneurial competence grows throughout studies and
entrepreneurship education is the key in the process. In the beginning of the study path the
focus should be in supporting personal entrepreneurial competencies, which becomes visible

12. Teachers’ toolkits
for ”metacompetences”
Creative problem solving in action
Extra curricular activies enhancing change in teachers role
Creating future learning environments
Enhancing participatory skills
All can be implemented in different subjects and theoretical
settings – such as entrepreneurship education, mediaeducation,
active citizenship, science…

16. Participatory skills
Learning path for media skills

17. CRITICAL
INTERPRETATION
SKILLS
SAFETY SKILLS
Identification and acting a
role with the help of media
Empathy and emotions
deliberated
To separate fact from
fiction and advertisements
from other content
The use of media with the
support of an adult. To
handle difficult situations.
Knowledge of the age
rating of media content
To convey emotions with
verbal, visual and musical
impulse. Media as a source of
pleasure and joy
To understand different
points of view presented by
the media, and to verbally
keep one's side.
Conversation skills
Knowledge of genres and
narrative means. To
understand that media
contents are constructions
Safe use of internet,
information security and to
guard one's privacy
5th & 6th
GRADE
(age 1112)
To discern one’s own media
needs and to find one’s own
media taste
Learning together and peer
training. Knowledge of
freedom of speech and to
understand the difference
between the private and the
public sector
Knowledge of media
discourses and structures.
Ability to analyse and
manage information
To take others into
consideration and to
behave politely on the
internet
7th & 8th
GRADE
(age 1314)
Ethical reflection and to
analyse messages. To mirror
values and attitudes presented
in the
media
To develop one's identity
with the help of media. Role
play and playing by relating
to different experiences
To question messages and
analyse media stereotypes
To understand that media
laws are based on the
user's rights and
obligations
9th
GRADE
(age 1516)
To express one’s personality
and style and create different
kinds of media environments.
Knowledge of the copyright
To participate in and
influence on civic culture
and civic society
To relate media content to
former data structures.
Awareness of the contents’
commercial, political and
ideological aims
Diverse, legal and rule
abiding use of media
content and services
To find self-expression and
using one's own voice
To participate through
interaction and own activity
Critical and cultural
awareness
Safe, adequate and
contextual use of media
CREATIVE AND
AESTHETIC SKILLS
COMMUNICATION
SKILLS
1st & 2nd
GRADE
(age 7-8)
To make own stories to tell and
the ability to understand the
structure of the plotline. To
reflect own experiences and
feelings to a character in a
story
3rd & 4th
GRADE
(age 9-10)

18. Thank you for your attention!
minnariikka.jarvinen@opinkirjo.fi