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21st Century: The Learning Challenge
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These notes are abbreviated; ebook text highlights and notes by JJFBbennett. I do promote the reading of this book to gain a deeper understanding of 21st C teaching and learning.
Whilst the following notes are inspired by the book they are not directly associated with the book.
The challenge
To equip students with 21st Century skills.
The connection
The link between skills and knowledge are interdependent
Effective teaching requires students to learn skills
Life long learning ability requires adaptive learning skills
Students need literacy and numeracy skills to have the fundamental capacities for lifelong learning
Plan for the future
Foreseeing what future skills students will need - is essential.
Teachers need to plan for adaptive learning skills.
Teachers cannot focus only on present-day skills.
The relationship between the educator and learner needs is key to students gaining 21st Century skills
Participatory learning
Learning needs to be outcome-based.
Students need to actively participate and self direct their learning needs.
Students need the skills to collaborate to achieve team-based outcomes.
Students need to have a post-school vision that is skills-based
to manage work pathways
to enable career flexibility
identify suitable TAFE options
to enter university
to contribute as citizenship in a digital global world.
Gardner's 5 Minds of the Future.
Discipline mind
Synthesizing mind
Creative mind
Respectful mind
Ethical mind
Skills
Students need to have the following skills to participate in the knowledge industry.
communication skills,
problem-solving skills, and
critical thinking skills
Society needs
Society needs a highly skilled and adaptive workforce
Only people who are highly skilled and can manage knowledge will keep up with the needs of a fast-changing and technology scientific society.
If you don't know the internet you can't be my teacher, I need someone who knows what I know.
To be highly skilled and a manager of knowledge students need digital literacy skills. It is the platform for developing life long learning skills.
Schools are not engaging a sufficient number of students to become adaptive life long learners.
How should schools plan and enable programs of instruction to develop students to gain skills in
innovation,
creativity
analysis
problem-solving
knowledge management
Schools play a critical role in a countries ability to maintain living standards.
“I do believe that it is necessary to stress that for most countries today, human
resource development and human capital formation are either extremely
important, absolutely vital, or a matter of life and death. In the case of
Malaysia…we think it is a matter of life or death.”
Abdullah Bin Ahmed Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia (Opening Speech of
the 2006 Meeting of the Association of Commonwealth Universities)
"Higher quality school leavers will support higher quality university graduates, which will mean increased skills, greater innovation and most importantly, a boost to national productivity."
It’s becoming clear to me that the crisis in youth unemployment around the world is not just one of the aftershocks of the global economic downturn, but may also have roots in education systems that are not adequately preparing students for 21st-century economies.
capable of responding to change in a positive manner; to
take on leadership roles
and have effective working interactions.
Teachers needs are not in unison
21C skills are seen as add-ons to what presently is provided in today's schools.
They are add-ons to what described as a crowded curriculum.
Teachers are not moving past the curriculum to engage the students with 21C skills.
Teachers are effectively stating I don't know how to do it so I will deny my students the opportunity to do it.
Teachers need to be digital literate
Professional development
Teachers need to be supported by sustained professional development if more students are to engage in 21C knowledge and skills.
Teachers need to develop skills to manage the crowded curriculum
Teachers need to be trained in hands-on inquiry-based learning methods that employ higher learning skills associated with the Blooms revised digital taxonomy.
Students Need
Students need to interact with knowledge in a different way.
It is important that knowledge can be recalled but it is now important that students know how to rapidly access the required knowledge.
Students need to re-purpose and use knowledge in a creative and innovative way.
Classrooms
Form follows function. If the function of learning is to generate engagement, collaboration, and problem-solving - the form a classroom takes is what?
So how do you identify the same as classroom and one that attempts to meet the needs of the 21st century?
The Toxic Weight of Waiting The atmosphere has thickened. What was once a room defined by walls and chairs has dissolved into a toxic haze, an environmental manifestation of a mind under siege. She no longer sits; she kneels, anchored to the floor by an invisible gravity. Above her, the "toxic air" takes shape as a looming, jagged shadow infused with high-velocity greens and burning volcanic reds. It feels less like smoke and more like a predator, a towering silhouette of anxiety that has finally outgrown the space. The colours vibrate with a sickly, chemical heat, turning the very oxygen into something thick and sharp. In this room, the silence has become deafeningly loud. The fractured light from the previous moment has bled together, creating a suffocating shroud that blurs the line between the physical world and an internal fever dream. The momentum hasn't just stalled; it has been swallowed. She has diminished, huddled in the eye of this psychic storm, a solitary ...
The Ethereal Ascent The air in the room is violently still, creating a heavy pressure. She has long stopped looking at the clock, realising that time here is not a sequence but a weight. The waiting room has fractured; the mundane reality of plastic chairs and linoleum flooring splinters into a jagged, stained-glass fever dream. High-pitched frequencies of burning red and sickly blues vibrate as if hardened walls, echoing the frantic noise of a mind that has run out of distractions. Every sharp edge of colour feels like a spiritual siege, a sensory reminder that her momentum has been forcibly halted. There is no use in pacing. There is no use in resisting the authoritative hand of the "in-between." To survive this stall, she must stop fighting the current and become part of the stagnant water. She looks out, as if just awakened, and does the only thing left to recollect. She breathes. She waits. She waits for the shards to align once more. Be Creative and Innovative wit...
Waiting for Azrael The air in the room doesn't move; it simply presses She has long since stopped looking at the clock, realising that time here isn't a sequence, but a weight. The waiting room has fractured, the mundane reality of plastic chairs and linoleum tiling splintering into a jagged, stained-glass fever dream . High-pitched frequencies of burning red and sickly yellow vibrate against the walls, echoing the frantic noise of a mind that has run out of distractions. She pulls her legs inward and forms a tight knot, dressed in indigo and bruised purple. She tries to find a purpose in her world that refuses to stand still. Every sharp edge of colour feels like a spiritual siege , a sensory reminder that her momentum has been forcibly halted. There is no use in pacing. There is no use in resisting the authoritative hand of the "in-between." To survive this stall, she must stop fighting the current and become part of the stagnant water. She buries her face, lets t...
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