21 st century education -...

Charles FadelMarch 3, 2014

Charlesfadel (at) gmail (dot) com

21st Century Education

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Volatile

Uncertain

Complex

Ambiguous

Our New World


Societal Challenges

Greed

Financial MeltdownGlobal WarmingPersonal Privacy

Intolerance

Religious fundamentalismPolitical Absolutism


Personal Challenges

EmployabilityBelonging

� Happiness


Source: Video extract from “Occupy Wall Street”

The stakes have never been higher


Economic Challenges

Globalization

Innovation


BIAC Voice of Employers Globally

1) Reform curricula2) Link to labor market needs


IN MORE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Source: “Tough Choices or Tough Times” 2007, National center on education and the economy


Impact of Absolute Population Size

2025

China & India300M skilled workersWorld challenge

Japan25M skilled workersUS, Europe Challenge

1985

“When China awakens, the world will tremble”

Napoleon Bonaparte


Engineering PhD median salary

US (CA): $125,200

Germany: $99,400

China: $53,700

India: $39,200

How do you justify 2-3xdifferential?


Disconnect between employers and educators


The Impact of Technology


Impact of Technology

Personal deliveryImpersonal delivery

Typing clerk � Bookkeeping

Legal discovery � Legal Opinion

Taxi driver

Surgeon

Policeman

Court proceeding

Security video monitoring

Radiologist

• Autonomous vehicles•Telepresence• Telemedicine

� Pathologist

NonroutineSkill

RoutineSkill

� RoboGuard


Google Autonomous Vehicle

>300kmiles,

one minor accidents,

occasional human intervention


“Computational Pathologist”

“Computers found more accurate than doctors in breast-cancer diagnosis”

Science Magazine November 10, 2011

“Computational Pathologist” by

Stanford Schools of Engineering and Medicine


Even modeling

Source: Le Monde Culture & Idees, December 24, 2011

H&M admits using a mannequin as digital model with “no flaws”


Displacement due to Technology

Ox � Harvester

Horse � Automobile

Lab Mice � Assays (not soon enough=)

Humans: Scribes � printing pressWashers � washing machineCashiers/Attendants � bar code scannerHealthcare/Finance/Services/Jeopardy champions � Watson

etc


More to come

� iPhone: $400 price point

• 40T in 2017

• 40E in 2025

� Video record your entire life (2025)} Already possible

in the Cloud !


Distributed & Cloud Computing


On the road to ExoBrain

Source: Moravec/Kurzweil/SU


More to come6 Robotics


Replace Workforce With Robots

Terry Guo, CEO of Foxconn, said last July that the Taiwan-based manufacturing giant would add up to one million industrial robots to its assembly lines inside of three years.


Brave New World

Human Genome mapping (2005)

“Technology today can do in five minutes a decoding task that would have taken a year to complete a decade ago”

Eric Lander, Founder, The Broad Institute

Improvement by a factor

of 1 million in ten years


More to come – Augmented Reality - Video


Will we need to learn a foreign language?

iPhone app: Speech-to-speech translator for 95% of world population (23 languages)http://www.ustar-consortium.com/

Google goggles with Translate


More to come6 3-D Printing

“3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution”September 13, 2010

“It’s about going from the Model T to something like a Mini that has 10 million permutations.”

Scott Summit, Bespoke Innovations:


More to come6 Things


More to come6 Virtual Reality


More to come6 Nanomaterials


More to come6 Brain-enhancers


A combinatorial explosion of possibilities


“The future is already here –

it's just not very evenly distributed.”

Science-Fiction author William Gibson,

quoted in The Economist,

December 4, 2003


So what do we teach for6

=in an era of ubiquitous Search and A.I. that help us with answers ?

How about:

• Wisdom

• Ethics

• Fluidity with Technology

• Adaptability

• Resilience

• Curiosity

• Asking the right questions

• Synthesizing/integrating

• Creating !


The Race between Technology and Education

Inspired by “The race between technology and education” Pr. Goldin & Katz (Harvard)

Industrial Revolution

Social pain

Social pain

Prosperity

Technology

Education

Digital Revolution

Charles Fadelwww.curriculumredesign.org

What should students learnin the 21st century?


Academia

Corporations

Coalition of key global players

International

organizations

Jurisdictions

Foundations

& Non-Profits

Fondation

Henri Moser


6on the basis of all dimensions,

Knowledge

Character

Skills


Traditional vs. Modern Knowledge


Integrated Fields (reflecting subject domains only)

Journalism

Business

Cinema

Wellness

Social systems

Biosystems

Robotics

Engineering & Technology (M, EE, CS, etc)

MathsPhysics

Environmental scienceChemistry

Biology/zoology/botanyBiotech/Synthetic Bio

MedicineGeography/Geology

Maths

AnthropologySociology

HistoryPolitical science

LinguisticsMythology/ReligionsMaths (Stats/Probs)

Language/writing/storyLiterature (non-fiction & modern)Media, Communication/Rhetoric

Philosophy/ethics/civicsPsychology/SociologyMaths (Stats/Probs)

EconomicsMarketing

Sales/PersuasionEntrepreneurship

LawNon-profit too

Storytelling/PoetryActing/Memory

ImprovMedia Technology

Design/Graphism/Arts (painting, sculpting,

photo, etc)

Health& NutritionSports & exercise &

artistic expression (danse)Meditation/yoga

Psychology/NeuroscienceSpirituality & Morality

Skills/Character/Metacognition

Systems-centric

Ethical


So6

What do we remove ?

� Deep re-examination of every single discipline’s branches, topics, items=


From the Master

“Technology alone is not enough= it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yield the results that make our hearts sing”.

Steve Jobs, iPad2 intro speech, March 2011


Versatility as a strategy

mTBroad Knowledge

Single vs Multiple

Deep Expertise

m-shaped Individual, not just T-shaped


Learning Skills


“=school learning is abstract, theoretical and organized by disciplines, while work is concrete, specific to the task, and organized by problems and projects=”

Source: OECD, “Learning for Jobs” 2009

Schooling vs Real-World


Workforce Requirements Survey

Source: “Are they really ready to work ?” report by the Conference Board, P21 et al

Knowledge SkillsEnglish Language (spoken) Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

Reading comprehension (English)

Communications (oral & written)

Writing (English) Collaboration/Teamwork

Mathematics Diversity

Science Information Technology Applications

Government/Economics Leadership

Humanities/Arts Lifelong Learning/Self-Direction

Foreign Languages Professionalism/Work Ethic

History/Geography Ethics/Social Responsibility


“Has your organization identified these skills as priorities for employee development, talent management, and succession planning?”

Skill Agree/Strongly Agree

Critical thinking 73.3%

Communication 79.2%

Collaboration 72.3%

Creativity/innovation 66.6%

Source: AMA/P21 2010 Critical Skills Survey, released April 2010

How are these skills recognized ?


Learning & Innovation Skills

• Creativity & Innovation

• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

• Communication

• Collaboration

21st Century Skills Framework


Practical book + DVD classroom examples

“The authors have done nothing less than provide a bold framework for designing a 21st century approach to education, an approach aimed at preparing all of our children to successfully meet the challenges of this brave, new world.”

Paul Reville, Secretary of Education,Commonwealth of Massachusetts;

former director of the Education Policy and Management Program,

Harvard Graduate School of Education

“It’s about time that we have such an accessible and wise book about the 21st century skills that so many companies, policymakers, and educators are talking about”

Roy Pea, Professor, Education and the Learning Sciences,

Stanford University

http://www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com


The Role of “Character”


Global Challenges

Source: “In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa” 18th century by Katsushika Hokusai, Metropolitan Museum, NY

GreedFinancial MeltdownGlobal WarmingPersonal Privacy

IntoleranceReligious fundamentalismPolitical Absolutism


7 Top Character Traits* (work-in-progress)

Purpose Top Traits Associated Traits and Concepts

Mindfulness

(basal, and linked

to Metacognition)

Self-awareness, self-esteem, self-actualization, vision, insight, consciousness, presence, interconnectedness,

empathy, sensibility, patience, acceptance, appreciation, tranquility, balance, spirituality, existentiality, oneness,

beauty, gratitude, interdependency, happiness.

Curiosity Open-mindedness, exploration,passion, self-direction, motivation, initiative, innovation, enthusiasm, spontaneity.

Courage Bravery, determination, fortitude, confidence, risk taking, grit, persistence, toughness, enthusiasm, zest,

optimism, inspiration, energy, vigor, zeal, cheerfulness, humor, stability.

Resilience Perserverence, resourcefulness, tenacity, grit, spunk, charisma, confidence, adaptability, dealing with ambiguity,

flexibility, self-discipline, self-control, feedback, effort, diligence.

Ethics Humaneness, kindness, respect, justice, equity, fairness, compassion, tolerance, inclusiveness, integrity, loyalty,

honesty, truthfulness, trustworthiness, decency, authenticity, genuineness, consideration, forgiveness, virtue, love,

care, helpfulness, generosity, charity, devotion, belonging.

Cooperation Social awareness, cross-cultural awareness, listening/speaking, sharing, dependability, reliability,

conscientiousness, efficiency, productivity, results orientation, focus, precision, project management, execution,

socialization, diversity, decorum, observation.

Leadership Responsibility, accountability, humbleness, vision, inspiration, integrity, organization and delegation, mentorship,

commitment, engagement, leading by example, goal-orientation, consistency, patience, self-reflection.

Social

(Interpersonal;

working with

others)

Personal

(Intrapersonal;

managing self)

• To avoid confusion with “Skills”• Neural plasticity � Traits can be learned


Meta-cognition


Metacognition

� Interdisciplinarity

� Learning how to learn

� Self-directed Learning


Conclusion: AND not OR

Inspired by an inscription used by Charles Voysey, Britain 1896

Cognition + Action + Emotion

Knowledge + Skills + Character+ Metacognition


For a better world


http://curriculumredesign.org/

Thank you !

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