Future Learning

I am going to have to go back through my books and find one, a post from a colleague the other day has me rethinking about future learning. This is something that we need to be reminded of and see the development of within our school.

http://stevemouldey.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/future-learning/

Some of the brief highlights of this book for him were:

• “Knowledge is innovation. Its role is to generate new knowledge, to do things.”
• The importance of developing systems level of understandings and higher order thinking skills
• A need to shift focus from skills to dispositions

Disciplining and Drafting, or 21st Century Learning? Rethinking the New Zealand Senior Secondary Curriculum for the Future, http://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/disciplining-and-drafting-or-21st-century-learning-rethinking-new-zealand-senior-secondar