Group+02

Group 2 thoughts

Claimed!!!

1) What do you think it means to prepare students for the 21st century?

Help them learn how to learn, how to access, evaluate the information they find.

Critical thinking, self direction.

Help them deal with teachers who do not engage with the technology.

Change 'factory model of education' into a 'bespoked system' aka personal learning environments.

How to get the most out of inquiry based learning. Start out with an authentic question / problem, provide sufficient scaffolds & faciliate the studets towards doing the learning to answer the question or solve the problem.

Results and outcomes drive the current teaching methods. How do we certify, assess, quantify the outcomes of inquiry learning. System, students etc. addicted to the grades instead with the learning, mastery of the processes important.

Assessments drives teaching! Value added is never taken into account. need to recognise different ways to assess skills or knowledge.

Content should not be the focus of assessments. Content can be found, analysed or evaluated plus content can also be created. So we should be assessing the process of finding content etc. & not just assessing the content.

2) What skills do students need to survive & thrive in this new era??

focused on end goals??

what next??

Get into it and DO IT!!! Take the first step.

What are some concrete actions that we can take in the near future?

We can learn from our students (eg. Tech angels at Wellington Girls High).