by James Harpur, Sydney Morning Herald
A professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Chris Dede, argues there are three core challenges facing schools: shifts in the knowledge and skills society values, development of new methods of teaching and learning, and changes in the characteristics of learners. To put it another way, students are increasingly learning differently, teachers are teaching differently and society wants different skills. The common link between the three is the impact of emerging technology. New technology is causing us to think and act in new ways. One would imagine, then, that coming to terms with emerging technology might lie at the centre of new curriculum Sadly, instead of the educational transformation that many of us hoped would be engendered by a national curriculum, educators are faced with core curriculums that hark back to 20th-century educational beliefs.
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