BLC09: Habitudes for 21st C Learning

Angela Maiers - talking about habits and attitude .. hence 'habitude'!

21st Century Learner - what are the skills?

• Problem solvers
• Collaborator
• Innovative mindset
• Self aware
• Powerfully curious
• Endurance/persistence
• Risk taker
• Comfortable with ambiguity etc etc .. nothing new really

What percentage of 4 year olds have 21st C skills? [She suggests 99.9999%] What percentage of graduates have these skills? [She suggests less than above, even after being taught!]
References Sir Ken Robinson's book ''The Element''

Every year, students become exponentially less equipped for the 21st C and divergent thinking ...so, not about teaching 21st C skills ... it's about maintaining them from a very early age.How do we maintain those 'bright shiny eyes' and enthusiasm for learning that early years children have?

Listen to a TED talk regularly

Consider 'labelling' something with a positive statement. Then when students internalise this and feel good, they 'claim it', maybe sustain it!

Character counts programs - curriculums being written around these. Bulletin boards.

Einstein - how to be a passionate and curious learner - learn how to ask effective questions ... but questions that a genius might ask! For example, Angela shows us a picture of rocks ... and asks us to think up genius questions!

She asks us to think of two words to take back to colleagues, describing 21st C Learning ...

Examples

• Bright eyes
• Name it
• Passion, curiosity