Seeds of change in 21st-century education | SmartBlogs

Learning and connectedness to information happens anywhere and anytime. If the 21st century were a pizza pie, we have already eaten the first slice. More than a decade in, educators are still struggling to define the quintessential “21st-century skill set” that will make up a “21st-century education.”

The problem with defining what 21st-century education will look like is that anyone who says they don’t know can easily be perceived a complacent relic with no vision for change, while anyone who professes to have the answer is seen as a pompous and shortsighted fool. I will take the middle ground: While I can’t say with certainty what the next 87-plus years will look like, I feel confident that certain important shifts have begun and will continue so that learners of today are making the most of their educational experiences and the society in which they live.

It is likely that if you are reading this, you are doing so on some sort of screen. The likelihood that this was printed out, photocopied and distributed into a small, metal slot in a main office is (hopefully) small. I would wager that many are reading it on a portable device away and not sitting in your classroom or school. You could be reading this on a train, a plane or — hopefully not — while driving. The point is that you’re learning, and connectedness to information happens anywhere and any time you want.

The true 21st-century education needs to be based on that.

See it on Scoop.it, via Knowledge Economy

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