© Charles Fadel – All Rights Reserved Practical book + DVD classroom examples “The authors have...

© 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


Redesigning the Curriculum

[email protected], Canada

October 13, 2011


We are already buffetedGlobalization

Financial Meltdown

OverconsumptionGlobal Warming


And the stakes have never been higher

George Orwell, “1984”


VolatileUncertain

ComplexAmbiguous


The Benefits of Learning

Learning

$ € ¥£元

Economiccompetitiveness

Lifelongpersonal

prosperity

Social & environmental

wellbeing


Yet,Curriculum reflects the late 1800’s


And not today’s world


Nor tomorrow’s


In the age of exponential technologies


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


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


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 !


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


So what shall we teach for…

…in an era of ubiquitous “Google” and “Watsons” that help us with answers ?

m-shaped Individual, not just T-shaped

mTBroad Knowledge

Single vs MultipleDeep Expertise


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


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


While students beg for relevance


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


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”


Now Neuroscience explains why

Cortical plasticity is conditional upon relevance

Doing means deeper learning, and it is a transfer mechanism


So it is grand time to act

unless we want a Dickensian society


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”


And no monolith has been found…


Meta-layer:

Interdependencies

Learning to learn

So imagine if we rethink What is taught

Knowledge

Character

Skills


Rebalance

Practical Theoretical


Enable students and teachers

Student voices and personalization

Teacher empowerment and renewed respect


Reassess Knowledge for its relevance


Learn Skills


Build Character


Harness interdisciplinarity


We will solve societal crises


We will improve economic prosperity


We will provide personal fulfillment


For a better world


And You - Be heard and contribute

Contact me: [email protected]


Conclusion

From an inscription used by Charles Voysey, Britain 1896


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