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Future of Learning
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Place Based Learning
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THRIVE - Valerie Hannon
Valerie contends that it all starts with our story - so we need to ask what is our story as a school?
Our stories about our planet, our community/school, our family/ourselves
In addressing What Is The Purpose of School, Valerie is starting with WHY, which is what Simon Sinek teaches we must always do.
Valerie contends our great purpose must be Learning to THRIVE in a TRANSFORMING world - she states we are on the cusp of change so great that there has never been a time of greater promise or greater peril.
Three key challenge areas - requiring disruptive thinking
Our Planet
- The sixth great extinction
- The anthropocene age
- Climate change
- Robotics
- AI - Artificial Intelligence
- Global Connectivity
Big Data
Outsourcing
Our evolution as a species - evolution in our own hands
- Genetic engineering
- Convergence of human bodies with artificial intelligence
- Human enhancement technologies (HET)
Valerie cites research showing 44% of low-education workers’ jobs at risk by 2030 - BUT we I contend need to view that “education” as much more than just academic learning
So how do we thrive in light of these huge shifts
Thrive in
- Planetary Global
- Societal community
- Inter-personal human to human
- Intra-personal - you as an individual
What does thriving at these four levels mean for education?
Planetary Global - learning goals need to focus on
- Learning to live sustainably - core, central to everything endeavour
- Protecting the earth’s ecosystem - reverencing the planet (Papatuanuku)
- Acquiring Global Competence
- Empathy
- Culturally responsive practice
- Navigating a disrupted and uncertain landscape of work (importance of KCs and KTs), where the (desired or planned for) career is likely to be hugely disrupted
- Flexibility of thinking and responding
- Social Emotional Learning
- The ability to learn, re-learn, un-learn and LOVE learning
- Reinventing a participative, authentic and meaningful democracy
Equity of opportunity
Inter-personal - Relational - learning goals need to focus on
- Growing great relationships, which make for good lives
- Growing and fostering Empathy
- Making, keeping and growing friendships
- Connecting with others - especially older generations
- Structured play based learning
- Respect for all
Intra-personal - learning goals need to focus on
- Learning who I am in the world - my story
- Learning my purpose
- Being able to be calm and silent
- Learning to be mindful rather than mind-full
From here, as a teaching staff we will reflect on and discuss
What does it mean to thrive for our children in our school?
This will in turn inform our Strategic Planning and direction for 2020
