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21st Century Curriculum for 21st Century Schools The value of applied learning Tom Bentley Director, Applied Learning, ANZSOG Our 21st century environment Connections breed interdependence Networks multiply the value and growth of knowledge Diversity and inequality can grow in tandem We are overshadowed by the challenge of global sustainability A new learning lifecycle 0-4 critical development 5-13 essential competences 14-19 pathways to adult roles 20-80 lifelong learners A new curriculum era Reduces content pressure Greater flexibility for teaching Values participation, progression, independent qualities Has sections on enterprise, citizenship, creativity Supports personalisation of learning pathways Meets international operating standards Personal, learning, thinking Independent enquirers Creative thinkers Reflective learners Team workers Self-managers Effective participators VCAL and applied pathways Literacy and numeracy skills Work related skills (including placement) Industry specific skills Personal development skills Howard Gardners’ 5 Minds for the future Disciplined Ethical Creative Synthesising Respectful The big shift: from bureaucratic hierarchies To networks Visible thinking Thinking.mht OhmyNews: reinventing journalism creating content together New ways to generate knowledge and potential Barefoot College.htm 125,000 learners integrating applied learning with development How does any of this apply to what schools, teachers, students do? Interaction between curriculum, assessment, pathways Failure to generate new organisational forms within schooling Search to connect individual schools with networks of learning opportunity, services, communities Families as learning environments and participants in learning systems A new systemic focus? Teaching and learning in school Local and community partnerships Integrated infrastructure Workforce development Better learning outcomes Learning beyond the classroom Aligning elements of a whole system Community and employer contributions Local and community partnerships Teaching and learning in school Curriculum, professional development, regulation Workforce development Better learning outcomes Role of local governance and system design Accreditation, evaluation, measurement Integrated infrastructure Learning beyond the classroom New learning environments and networks The next set of challenges? Assessment for understanding Open organisational design Portable learning pathways Learning networks embedded in wider infrastructure, institutions Curriculum as design for public expectation and aspiration [email protected]