My Notes/Thoughts
Education is innovation - so what does this mean? It means preparing our students for their future, not our past. What are schools like at innovation? Well, some of them are not very good at it as 'change' at a school can be a big risk. Change may be uncomfortable for some. Educational change is complicated, but it can be done. Schools are becoming creative, adaptive, relevant, permeable, dynamic, systematic, and self-correcting. I can see how schools are changing into creative spaces, rather than being rigid inflexible places. I liked the way a changing school can be likened to an ecosystem; a school can be seen as being a 'living organism', rather than an 'industrial model'. I now see how a school is a system, interwoven with other systems, such as the political system, and the governmental system. Schools are not finite, they 'grow'.
Educational change can be hard because of these barriers: anchors (not enough time, resources, or space), dams, and silos (learning areas being discrete). These barriers that must be broken to allow for change to take place.
How do we break down these barriers? By teachers teaching into the unknown - not knowing what the end point looks like. By learners and organisations becoming self-evolving.
21st Century Skills
- collaboration
- knowledge construction
- self-regulation
- real-world problem solving and innovation
- use of ICT for leanring
- skilled communication
The 21st Century Skills align well with the Key Competencies - I would like to explore this further.
During today's session we were given a 21st Century Skill (real-world problem solving and innovation) and had to come up with a learning activity where students would develop that skill. Was really fun!
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