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Pedagogy of the Future

Jim McKenzie, headmaster at The Rock School, in Gainesville, Florida discusses how schools of today need to change in order to be Future Ready Schools.

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Google for Education

As one of the leaders in the EdTech space, Google for Education has published a report outlining the emerging global trends in the Future K-12 Classroom. Through research gathered from around the world, the report highlights 8 key concepts that are shifting education. To read more about the ideas detailed in their report, please click on the link below.

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4Cs of the 21st Century Classroom

What does the pedagogy of the 21st Century Classroom look like? Aside from the foundational literacies being taught in traditional classrooms, the future requires students to access competencies that challenge the way they think and apply their learning. 

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Collaborative working teams are used with the teacher as the "mentor" guiding students through differentiated learning objectives. Students play different parts within their teams. Team roles such as team leader, assistant team leader, research analyst and speaker, align with the business world and job market. 

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Communication in future classrooms includes:

  • Analyzing, Evaluating, Engaging

  • Choosing an appropriate medium to deliver a message

  • Digital Literacy

  • Decoding written words, images and concepts

  • Understanding the abilities and limitations of  technological communication tools

  • Effective communication skills to build working relationships

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COMMUNICATION

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  • Collaborative working teams

  • Teacher as the "mentor" guiding students through differentiated learning objectives.

  • Students play different team roles that align with business and job market (eg. team leader, assistant team leader, research analyst, speaker

  • Collaboration with community members through apprentice and mentorship will also allow students to experience immersive, hands-on learning experiences. 

  • The use of AI will help foster a more personalized learning environment for individual students. 

COLLABORATION

Collaborative working teams are used with the teacher as the "mentor" guiding students through differentiated learning objectives. Students play different parts within their teams. Team roles such as team leader, assistant team leader, research analyst and speaker, align with the business world and job market. 

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Critical Thinking Involves...

  • Computational Thinking - decomposition, pattern recognition, algorithms, abstraction

  • Observation - notice opportunities, problems and solutions

  • Analysis - gather and interpret information 

  • Inferring - drawing conclusions based on data, information, prior knowledge and personal experiences

  • Discovery - uncovering solutions to problems through exploration 

  • Problem Solving - identify, and trouble shoot solutions

CRITICAL THINKING

Collaborative working teams are used with the teacher as the "mentor" guiding students through differentiated learning objectives. Students play different parts within their teams. Team roles such as team leader, assistant team leader, research analyst and speaker, align with the business world and job market. 

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Exploring new approaches to completing a task through innovation and invention.

  • Designing & Creating

  • Play-based & Gamified learning

  • Student-led design and construction of learning concepts

  • Unconventional modes of expressing learning

  • Unique learning opportunities

  • Digital Portfolios to showcase learning

CREATIVITY

Critical thinking skills are developed through inquiry based learning. Students are taught strategies used to solve open-ended problems through collaboration and interest-based discovery. Future ready schools are focused on Project-Based Learning (PBL) where educators facilitate student-led learning environments.

Computational thinking is recognized as a key skill set for all 21st century learners. According to the BC Curriculum model, integrating the concepts of Abstraction, Pattern Recognition, Decomposition and Algorithmic Design - promote Computer Science literacies across the curriculum.

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Classrooms of the Future are currently being designed with a Constructivist framework. Constructivist learning theory suggests that learning is most conducive in an environment that:

  • Is engaging and inspires active learning

  • Offers Project Based Learning (PBL) or Work Based Learning (WBL)

  • Promotes self-guided learning 

  • Encourages Peer collaboration and feedback

  • Ties learning to the real world

  • Sees the role of the instructor as "facilitator"

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“A classroom space should enable different pedagogical formats. The classroom of the future is a flexible classroom...it must be authentic, didactical, and innovative. Classrooms of the future are “experience” classrooms.”
- Marc Hermans 
Head of the Education Department at
PXL University College, Belgium
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