If you can understand and picture 21st Century Skills and combine this with 21st Century Teachers you will get 21st Century Learning.

When we have discussions about A Curriculum for Excellence at School I keep asking the question, ‘what do we actually want children know and what skills do they need to have to enter the 21^st Century?’ I really feel that the secondary debate at the moment is focusing far too much on individual subject departments and not enough on whole school. I think we also need to remember that A Curriculum for Excellence is also about improving Learning and Teaching, up-dating and validating the skills of our children.

If you have 7 minutes this video would provide a good starter to any ACE discussion. In any planning that goes on in the next few months it’s really important that we don’t forget the bigger picture.

By the way this is the most viewed video on TeacherTube (Thanks Jim)

Comments

[Ewan McIntosh]

I think the answer to this lies in part in this:
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2008/02/new-ace-experie.html

Literacy is always seen as the underlying understanding with which all teachers and learners must engage. With 'texts' being expanded to include 21st century understandings of the word (games, blogs, social networks, txts et al) we're getting closer to answering that question with practical action:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/02/scotlands-liter.html

[Alan Parkinson]

Scotland 1 England Nil again...
This sounds exciting, and I look forward to seeing what you do with it.
Would love to have the time to develop some of these ideas further in a specifically geographical context.