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© Charles Fadel – All Rights Reserved
Practical book + DVD classroom examples
“The authors have done nothing less than provide a bold framework for designing a 21st century approach to education, an approach aimed at preparing all of our children to successfully meet the challenges of this brave, new world.”
Paul Reville, Secretary of Education,Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
former director of the Education Policy and Management Program,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
“It’s about time that we have such an accessible and wise book about the 21st century skills that so many companies, policymakers, and educators are talking about”
Roy Pea, Professor, Education and the Learning Sciences,
Stanford University http://www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com
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Redesigning the Curriculum
[email protected], Canada
October 13, 2011
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We are already buffetedGlobalization
Financial Meltdown
OverconsumptionGlobal Warming
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The Benefits of Learning
Learning
$ € ¥£元
Economiccompetitiveness
Lifelongpersonal
prosperity
Social & environmental
wellbeing
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Brave New World
Human Genome mapping (2005)
“Technology today can do in five minutes a decoding task that would have taken a year to complete a decade ago”
Eric Lander, Founder, The Broad Institute
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Displacement due to Technology
Ox HarvesterHorse AutomobileLab Mice Assays (not soon enough…)
Humans: Scribes printing pressWashers washing machineCashiers/Attendants bar code scannerHealthcare/Finance/Services/Jeopardy champions Watson
etc
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And more to come
• iPhone: $400 price point• 40T in 2015• 40E in 2025
“We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist… in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”
Richard Riley
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
• Video record your entire life (2025)
• Brain-in-computer (2030) } Already possible in the Cloud !
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The Race between Technology and EducationInspired by “The race between technology and education” Pr. Goldin & Katz (Harvard)
Industrial Revolution Digital Revolution
Social pain
Social pain
Prosperity
Technology
Education
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So what shall we teach for…
…in an era of ubiquitous “Google” and “Watsons” that help us with answers ?
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To address the issues we need deeper learning
Character:• Adaptability• Resilience• Persistence• Ethics, etc
Skills:• Creativity• Critical thinking• Communication• Collaboration, etc
And far more relevant Knowledge in:• Languages• Humanities/Arts• Science/Technology/Engineering/Math
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Yet Curriculum has evolved slowly
Ancient Greece & Rome
Early Christiani
ty & Middle Ages
Renaissance &
Enlightenment
Modern Industrial Era
Today
History
Music
Art
Philosophy & Ethics
Hu
manit
ies
ArithmeticGeometryAstronomy
Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus
STEM
Reading, Writing
Literature
Oratory
Rhetoric
Grammar, Handwriting, Spelling
Greek, Latin Contemporary Languages incl. 2nd
language
Langu
age
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This is not a new debate
Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Academy Subjects
* These subjects were usually optional in the British Grammar Schools
FrenchGermanSpanishHandwritingBookkeepingDrawingGeometryAstronomy
Geography LatinGreekEnglish* Reading*Writing*Arithmetic*
British Grammar School Subjects
RhetoricOratoryMoralityHistoryNatural HistoryNatural PhilosophyMechanicsGardening
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It is humankind’s wisdom
Confucius (551-479 BC): “I hear and I forget, I see
and I remember, I do and I understand”
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592 AD):
“rather a mind shaped than a head full”
“plutot la tête bien faite que bien pleine”
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Now Neuroscience explains why
Cortical plasticity is conditional upon relevance
Doing means deeper learning, and it is a transfer mechanism
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So it is grand time to act
unless we want a Dickensian society
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We are facing ourselves
“We have evolved traits [such as group selfishness] that will lead to humanity's extinction – so we must learn how to overcome them”
Christian de DuveNobel prize in Medicine 1974
“Genetics of original sin”
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Meta-layer:
Interdependencies
Learning to learn
So imagine if we rethink What is taught
Knowledge
Character
Skills
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Enable students and teachers
Student voices and personalization
Teacher empowerment and renewed respect
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And You - Be heard and contribute
Contact me: [email protected]
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Conclusion
From an inscription used by Charles Voysey, Britain 1896