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Explore the value of applied learning in the 21st century environment, emphasizing the shift towards networks, diversity, and sustainability. Discover a new learning lifecycle and curriculum era that emphasizes critical development, essential competences, and lifelong learning. Gain insights into personal, learning, and thinking skills, along with industry-specific and personal development skills. Dive into Howard Gardner's 5 Minds for the future and the transition from bureaucratic hierarchies to networks. Learn about visible thinking and innovative approaches to generate knowledge. Reflect on the challenges faced by schools, teachers, and students in aligning curriculum, assessment, and pathways, and the importance of fostering learning networks and new learning environments. Email T.Bentley@anzsog.edu.au for more information.
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21st Century Curriculum for 21st Century SchoolsThe value of applied learning Tom Bentley Director, Applied Learning, ANZSOG
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
A new learning lifecycle • 0-4 critical development • 5-13 essential competences • 14-19 pathways to adult roles • 20-80 lifelong learners
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
Personal, learning, thinking • Independent enquirers • Creative thinkers • Reflective learners • Team workers • Self-managers • Effective participators
Literacy and numeracy skills Industry specific skills Work related skills (including placement) Personal development skills VCAL and applied pathways
Disciplined Creative Ethical Synthesising Respectful Howard Gardners’ 5 Minds for the future
Visible thinking • Thinking.mht
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New ways to generate knowledge and potential • Barefoot College.htm 125,000 learners integrating applied learning with development
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
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
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
