2. 21st Century Learning Skills
Ingenuity
21st Century Learning Skills

3. What is this?

4. What skills are needed?
At what grade level are these skills taught?

5. How do you engender in students the creative skills that built the ice hotel?

6. How do you teach these skills in an over-crowded curriculum?

7. How do you teach these skills in an over-crowded curriculum?
Don’t teach skills,
incorporate them

8. Curiosity progression

9. Curiosity progression

10. Conditions that kill curiosity
Don’t make mistakes
Follow directions – don’t think
Sit down –
Don’t move
Be quiet
Slow down

11. What change do you want?
You want them to be more…… less…..

12. What change do you want? More … Less….. Differences…
You want them to be more…… less…..

13. Desired changes
Enhance curiosity

14. Desired changes
Enhance curiosity
Develop effective bullshit meter

15. Desired changes
Enhance curiosity
Develop effective bullshit meter
Over 30% university graduates had no gain in cognitive abilities

16. Desired changes Enhance curiosity Develop effective bullshit meter
Develop self confidence in skills

17. Desired changes Enhance curiosity Develop effective BS meter
Develop self confidence in skills
Change information into understanding

18. Desired changes Build things Solve problems Share ideas
Enhance curiosity
Develop effective BS meter
Develop self confidence in skills
Change information into understanding
Build things
Solve problems
Share ideas

19. Activity
Content

20. Challenge
Build
Imagine
Test
Content
Improve

21. Success comes from freedom to fail
James Hillier

22. Peer discussions
Peer discussions
Eric Majur

23. Ingenuity Faced with a challenge Freedom to meet the challenge any way
The goals are understood
Results are measurable
Feedback is immediate

24. Design and build things
Learning occurs when…
People think
Solve problems
Answer questions
Design and build things
Sir Ken Robinson

25. Learning occurs when… Curious People think When they want to learn
Sugata Mitra

26. Leave them with questions
Questions drive learning

27. Change information into understanding
Students
Build things
Solve problems
Share ideas