What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills - Lichtman

What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills - Lichtman -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEZTyxSl3g

How can we teach critical thinking and problem solving in a post industrial education world? Our children should be asking questions more than giving answers. We should be breaking down the compartmentalism into subjects. Finding problems instead of solving problems.

• Schools are not good at innovation (politics and risk adverse)
• Schools are doing it but need to connect
• Change is thought of as hard but it shouldn’t be - it’s uncomfortable, complicated and messy
• Student ownership of learning is messy and chaotic
• Schools should be telling children from juniors how they learn, be online and meld subjects.
• Authentic reflection to improve self correction and innovation
• Schools should be creative spaces, fail fast, iterate, fail forward
• Need to drop industrial age learning models
• Schools can be an ecosystem part of a global ecosystem - the 5th sphere - the cognitus sphere - universal access to knowledge that connects us all.
• Limitations to collaboration and innovation - ego, dams (subject), silos (departments, divisions)
• Teach into the unknown (difficult, uncomfortable and messy)
• Teach children to be self evolving learners.
• We need to be self evolving organsitions and embrace constant change.
• Prep students for their future not our past