I am fortunate to work in a classroom where every child has access to an iPad. All children work on their own iPad. A focus that I beginning to think about is how we utilise the technology that is there in a collaborative manner. Is there some sort of app or technology usage that can be utilised so children can work together to work on real-life contexts or issues in a problem-solving, critical thinking manner?
Do 20th and 21st Century skills differ? Do we need them both?
21st Century skills that we believe are important:
After what the 'What 60 Can Tell us About Teaching Century Skills'
Key Points from the video:
- asking questions than giving answers
- finding problems instead of solving them
- messy, noisy and chaotic class environment
- 'Bloom's Taxonomy'
- creative: classroom environment (writing on walls, thinking, designing, building, fail forward and upward)
- relevant: engaging to them
- permeable
- dynamic and adaptative: curriculum integration
- self-correcting: empathy and thinking about what he doing (tradition and innovative)
- 'Ecosystem vs industrial'
- 'Dewey: knowing what great learning looks like'
- Anchors: no collaborative approaches to everything
- Dams: no open leadership etc
- Silos: no collaborative approaches and innovative implementations
- We don't want anchors, dams and silos
We need:
- teach into the unknown: teach for the future,
- self-evolving learners: they can meet the challenges ahead
- self-evolving organisations: embrace change and methodology
- preparing them for their future, not ours
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