Fostering+21st+Century+Learners

**__Fostering 21__** __st Century Learners __

The realities of living, as we do, in the 21st Century cannot be avoided. Outside the classroom, students inhabit an environment that is growing exponentially in terms of inter-connectivity, and access. And yet, as Sir Ken Robinson argues in the video below, the educational system is still based on a paradigm established during the Industrial Revolution, focused primarily on developing individuals into becoming good workers, and producers within a 'factory' system. While strides are being made in educational discourse, concrete implementation is lagging behind, as might be expected due to the massive entrenchment of this mindset with educational institutions worldwide.

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The mission of the ICHS will be to foster concrete implementation of the 22st Century Literacies, as outlined by Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy#Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

The role of teachers has fundamentally shifted, from being the repository of all necessary information, to acting primarily as facilitators of students' individual learning, in the form of Inquiry/Project-based learning that allows them to engage in all the aspects of the Learner Profile. To achieve this, it will be necessary for all teachers to be familiar with the concepts of Brain-Based learning, as well as the various tools that will enable them, and their students to achieve their potential within this framework.

21st Century Literacies: Giving students the tools to:

__//to find information, connect with it, synthesize it and problem solve with it. //__  Next Page