The document discusses the challenges and opportunities for 21st-century schools, emphasizing the need for innovative teaching methods and global citizenship awareness. It highlights the importance of schools as community hubs for education that prepare future leaders to address local and global issues. Key themes include collaboration, creativity, and the use of modern resources to enhance science literacy and human skills.

1. Schools in the 21st Century: Challenges and opportunities
Summer 2018 - Planet Earth
Open Astronomy Schools
Rosa Doran

2. www.galileoteachers.org
• Empower teachers to embrace
modern trends for science teaching
• Create a strong support and
collaborative network
• Introduce cutting edge science in
school
• GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AWARENESS

3. Pale Blue Dot

4. Who are the future leaders of our planet and
how to prepare them ?

5. How do we want them to be educated?

7. Diversity / Tolerance / Solidarity / Equity / Equality
It is in schools that we should start addressing this ….

8. What are the professions in 2030?

9. what is the role of schools in facing global
challenges and finding local solutions

10. What are the existing challenges and
opportunities in each community?
Migrants
Criminality
Refugees

11. How can local communities
contribute for the education of
their citizens?

12. Which are the innovative pieces ?
• Training
• Tools
• Resources
• Methodologies
• Creativity
• Colaboration
• Cooperation
• Ideas
• ….....

13. Urgent need: EDUCATION and Global Perspective 
Global Citizenship Awareness and Science Literacy
Flat Earth Proof

14. 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTIONS OF USE
DIGITAL LITERACY: know how to use it effectively to achieve goals,
safety, science literacy, computational thinking, etc.
21ST CENTURY SKILLS for teachers and students: communication,
collaboration , critical thinking, creativity, learning to learn, etc
HUMAN SKILLS: tolerance, patience, education, persistence, positive
attitude, resilience, etc.
21ST CENTURY METHODS: visual thinking, design thinking,
personalized self-learning, etc.

15. The
challenge
for the new
generation

16. What is expected from all of us !!!

17. A holistic approach to
schools as science
hubs
A new model is necessary: Open Schools
for Open Societies (OSOS)

18. The school at the centre of the community as
innovatin and knowledge hubs

19. Open Schools for Open Societies (OSOS) provide innovative ways to
explore the world: not simply to automate processes but to inspire, to
engage, and to connect.
Open Schools for Open Societies (OSOS) at the centre of communities: a
space to discover, to share to be called also home.
Open Schools for Open Societies (OSOS) a place to teach, to
learn, to share and to jointly build a more fair and literate
society. A space to learn beyond our imagination. A place to
prepare for the challenges of the future.

24. Target Local Problems

27. Communities fighting
Light Pollution
• Students as change makers:
• Promoting Awareness about
its impact in our lives
• Investigating the impact on
the local flora and fauna
• Exploring possible solutions
• Establishing connections with
all relevant stakeholders
• Becoming change makers in
their locality

30. PLATON: Promoting Learning Approaches
for the Teaching of Natural Sciences
Promoting Innovative Learning Approaches for the Teaching of Natural Science
2016-1-PT01-KA201- 022881
Framework for IBL and the Big Ideas of Science

31. Next-Lab project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731685.

33. International Opportunities
European Science Education Academy
esea.ea.gr

34. IAU100:
UNITING OUR WORLD
TO EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE

35. 100th Anniversary
1919 Solar Eclipse
50th Anniversary
Moon Landing

37. Open Astronomy Schools

38. Teacher Training
Window to the Universe100 Astronomy Tools and Resources
Dark Sky Rangers
Open Astronomy School
100 Asteroids
My Sky, Your Sky
Moon Above Me
Eratosthenes Experiment
100 Astronomy Images
Design Thinking with Stars

39. Teacher Training
Window to the Universe100 Astronomy Tools and Resources
Dark Sky Rangers
Open Astronomy School
100 Asteroids
My Sky, Your Sky
Moon Above Me
Eratosthenes Experiment
100 Astronomy Images
Design Thinking with Stars

41. REMEMBER: In the end it is all
about people and the choices we
all make. Choose wisely !!!!