21st Century Learners

We have been doing lots of reading about the Skills and Dispositions of 21st century learners and we have been comparing these with the skills that our parents want for their students. We surveyed parents recently on what they want for their Year 6 pupils. (See below)

Click on this link for more readings on skills and dispositions

Vanessa really liked this graphic

The Skills and Attributes of Today's Learner. It includes some very important ones like "collaboration across networks" We have been having big discussions about this point. Its related to Derek Wenmoth's key driver of change 'Connectedness" where learning happens across networks, social media and personal learning communities. This graphic has skills like "grit' and 'hope and optimism' and 'adaptability'
Very interesting skills and something to think about in terms of how to we ensure our curriculum gives opportunities for our learners to develop these skills.

One of the readings that interested me was ...

Especially the Digital skills. We need to discuss with the leadership team and Whanau about these digital skills and providing opportunities for students to use these skills in their learning. Things like tweeting. We need to discuss as a leadership team about using social media such as twitter in the classroom. Implications of this are about cyber safety and I would like to work with students to create proposals to present to the leadership team on how we could use Social media in the classroom. I would like to survey a group of senior students to test their abilities in those digital skills as my assumption is they will be able to do most of them, and then use this group of students to help plan ways to use these skills in their learning. 

Tina