21st Century Learning Design Workshop

Another great day of thinking what skills our learners need to have to equip them for their futures.

Microsoft did some research and found that there are 6 capabilities that our children need to have in order for them to be successful in the 21st Century.

These are;

Knowledge Construction
which is all about learning knowledge and understandings you can apply later, learning skills to enable you to do new things

Use of ICT for learning 

This overlays knowledge construction - use ICT to construct knowledge and then use the skills developed above, need to analyse, compare and contrast, and then create an ICT product - create for an authentic audience (i.e. an email). Thoughts from the group where that the rubric could be changed so it is less "pass/fail". Overlaps all others but can go back to it. Juniors to share their learning - rubric misses lots of steps as building knowledge hard, but can share successfully using ICT.

Self regulation

This is more about group than self, give time, not just the finished product, more about the learning process and giving the skills to enable success and reflect in the middle to look at the rubric. Peer feedback - teach the skill.

Real World Problem Solving and Innovation

No given solution, use of actual data, authentic - has to matter to them, innovate - must carry out solution or communicate so someone else can. Link to SOLO from identify - what we need to know, what we do know, how can we solve it, what tools are needed to generate, up to apply, imagine and reflect.

Skilled Communication

Multi-modal - using a range of different ways to communicate - from writing to oral, performing etc. Look at the info and the audience and make sure they are related - content and method.

Collaboration is the 6th one and in pairs we had to unpack that a bit more. 

What does collaboration mean to you? 
Interdependent with/on each other (to rely on each other) 
Communication  
Understanding, trust and empathy 
Helping each other getting out of pit- helping solve problems 
Building each others capacity 
Flexible to each others styles / needs 
Questioning 

How will students need to collaborate in the future? 
COMMUNICATION- What , How, Why 
Digitally 
Verbally & orally 
Creatively  
Honestly