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21 st Century Curriculum for 21 st Century Schools The value of applied learning

21 st Century Curriculum for 21 st Century Schools The value of applied learning. Tom Bentley Director, Applied Learning, ANZSOG. Our 21 st century environment. Connections breed interdependence Networks multiply the value and growth of knowledge

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21 st Century Curriculum for 21 st Century Schools The value of applied learning

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  1. 21st Century Curriculum for 21st Century SchoolsThe value of applied learning Tom Bentley Director, Applied Learning, ANZSOG

  2. Our 21st century environment • Connections breed interdependence • Networks multiply the value and growth of knowledge • Diversity and inequality can grow in tandem • We are overshadowed by the challenge of global sustainability

  3. A new learning lifecycle • 0-4 critical development • 5-13 essential competences • 14-19 pathways to adult roles • 20-80 lifelong learners

  4. A new curriculum era • Reduces content pressure • Greater flexibility for teaching • Values participation, progression, independent qualities • Has sections on enterprise, citizenship, creativity • Supports personalisation of learning pathways • Meets international operating standards

  5. Personal, learning, thinking • Independent enquirers • Creative thinkers • Reflective learners • Team workers • Self-managers • Effective participators

  6. Literacy and numeracy skills Industry specific skills Work related skills (including placement) Personal development skills VCAL and applied pathways

  7. Disciplined Creative Ethical Synthesising Respectful Howard Gardners’ 5 Minds for the future

  8. The big shift: from bureaucratic hierarchies

  9. To networks

  10. Visible thinking • Thinking.mht

  11. OhmyNews: reinventing journalism creating content together

  12. New ways to generate knowledge and potential • Barefoot College.htm 125,000 learners integrating applied learning with development

  13. How does any of this apply to what schools, teachers, students do? • Interaction between curriculum, assessment, pathways • Failure to generate new organisational forms within schooling • Search to connect individual schools with networks of learning opportunity, services, communities • Families as learning environments and participants in learning systems

  14. A new systemic focus?

  15. Aligning elements of a whole system Curriculum, professional development, regulation Community and employer contributions Role of local governance and system design Accreditation, evaluation, measurement New learning environments and networks

  16. The next set of challenges? • Assessment for understanding • Open organisational design • Portable learning pathways • Learning networks embedded in wider infrastructure, institutions • Curriculum as design for public expectation and aspiration

  17. T.Bentley@anzsog.edu.au

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