18. 21st Century Skills
Complex Communication
Collaboration
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Creativity and Innovation
Information and Media fluency
19. 21st Century Schools
Free range learners
• Free to choose how they learn
• Free to choose where they learn
• Free to choose how they process their learning
• Free to choose how they evidence their learning
• Free to experience learning that is relevant and responsive
to their needs not our limitations
The educational revolution will not be televised,
It will be blogged, tweeted, and written collaboratively...in code.
We will need to lead our educators to become adaptive experts who as Linda Darling Hammond states know how to continuously expand their expertise, restructuring their knowledge and competencies to meet new challenges.” Future focused leadership is about change leadership
We will need to lead our educators to become adaptive experts who as Linda Darling Hammond states know how to continuously expand their expertise, restructuring their knowledge and competencies to meet new challenges.” Future focused leadership is about change leadership
We will need to lead our educators to become adaptive experts who as Linda Darling Hammond states know how to continuously expand their expertise, restructuring their knowledge and competencies to meet new challenges.” Future focused leadership is about change leadership
The future is not something that is done to us, but an ongoing process in which we can intervene.
The future is not something that is done to us, but an ongoing process in which we can intervene.
The future is not something that is done to us, but an ongoing process in which we can intervene.
The future is not something that is done to us, but an ongoing process in which we can intervene.
German economist Ludwig Lachmann there are many sources that can be used to engage in “future-forecasting”. Looking into what the future holds is overwhelming and as it is yet to be realized it is hard to separate the likely from the fanciful. That said, many themes and patterns do appear throughout a range of readings.
In the text 21st Century Skills, Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel look to the recent past to establish predictions for the not too distant future. They, in a sense, establish a timeline: Agrarian Age, Industrial Age and Knowledge Age. Acknowledging that whilst many cultures are still well grounded in the Agrarian and Industrial Age, the most developed are grounded in the Knowledge Age, highlighting also the “complex communication” skills that go along with it. McCain, Jukes and Crockett create a similar timeline in Living on the future Edge, showing the world as moving through Agriculture, Working, Service to Creative in the current day.
In Living on the future edge McCain, Jukes and Crockett talk about Moore’s Law which was based on the prediction of Intel founder Gordon E Moore, that computer power, speed and performance would double every year. A prediction of increasing rate of change which remains true nearly 50 years after it was made. We are in the period of hyperchange.
One thing we actually do know about the future is that the only constant is change
Skills need to be developed that reach across traditional subjects and siloes
In knowing that the only constant is change and that what we actually need to do is equip our students (and teachers) for becoming adaptive experts so as to deal with change it would also make sense that the future focused pedagogy is based around learning being:
Inquiry based
Problem-based
At times self-directed
Personalised yet collaborative
In knowing that the only constant is change and that what we actually need to do is equip our students (and teachers) for becoming adaptive experts so as to deal with change it would also make sense that the future focused pedagogy is based around learning being:
Inquiry based
Problem-based
At times self-directed
Personalised yet collaborative