21st Century Education

We wanted to talk about 21 st century education. We are living through an educational change. The tempo of change is overwhelming. Schools, parts, entire countries are altering training on its premier and redefining its own experience of students and of teachers. The blow is feel by millions of children and their families of all the countries. Let's consider for a moment "the worlds" in which they live. In a macrocosm with so much better acquaintance, it's hard to clasp. Parties are forming 2,000 brand-new websites every hour. They are uploading 35 hours of video every minute. And watching 2 billion YouTube videos every day.

By the time they leave, school adolescents average practically 1,000 Facebook acquaintances. They connect with people thousands of miles away as if they were in the same chamber. They consume, create and are informed in previously unimaginable courses. They truly are the children of a globalized world. And where are they leading as they grow up? To a hyper-connected macrocosm with more people and fewer resources. A busy and competitive microcosm are full of uncertainties. A workforce that is more mobile and better qualified than ever before and locations that span multiple errands, positions and skills and abilities, some of which haven't been invented hitherto. In answer, education commanders are stimulating significant changes, improving 21 st century skills, expanding facilitating engineerings and personalizing extending to hire students in diverse and artistic ways.

In South Korea schools are swapping to digital textbooks so students can contemplate anytime and anywhere with online hours recognized as school attendance. In Denmark, students are exploiting the internet while taking quizzes. They can access any website they like, even Facebook, as long as they don't message each other or help email. In the USA, ultra-personalized study approaches give students to cause their own individual schedules. Their pastime and accomplishment are logged daily to render playlists of hearing alternatives. With teachers, occasion freed up to mentor and supervise students. Hearing can happen anywhere and everywhere. That's why some Australian academics are pushing hearing beyond school walls where internships with local organizations are a fundamental part of each student's learning program. Distance hearing programs to connecting severely withdrawn students with online hearing communities and personal mentors to help them rediscover their adore for hearing. The chance for 21 st century education are gigantic. These lessons point the way made to ensure that tomorrow's workers, parents, and citizens and more original question solvers, better communicators and lifelong learners. To make sure that change happens on a massive scale we need to do significant changes. That's why we have designed the brand-new Australian curriculum online supported by interactive, regularly updated digital resources structured around students and teacher's needs.

And it's why we now have national professional the criteria for both educators and principals that make sure they meet the needs and 21 st century learners, but that's just the beginning. Connect us as we increase this debate and connect educational innovators and reckoned commanders across Australia and the world.