The Innovation Framework highlights four areas related to what
and how students learn:
21st Century
Skills & Standards
Curriculum &
the Learning Paradigm
Assessment
Innovative Uses
of ICT
How should a curriculum be designed, and how should students be
assessed? How can student-directed learning be encouraged?
In most countries, school curricula and
instruction are mostly didactic based on subject-based knowledge transmission
and large amounts of rote learning. This ignores many skills that are
increasingly necessary for life and work and often fails to engage students. Of
course, schools implement and work according to national standards and other
learning requirements, but they can also consider more effective teaching and
learning strategies and encourage student-centered learning and assessment
processes.4
Many
innovative schools actively engage students in their learning and in the
co-design of the learning process. There are a variety of ways of doing this,
from the use of student councils to students as researchers within schools, to
online student feedback on the quality of teaching and learning. Technology
skills are crucial in the 21st Century skill set, but technology should play a
bigger role in the transformation of learning practices. High-level ICT
integration increases the possibility of personalizing learning processes,
making learning accessible to students anytime and anywhere.
Trudy Sweeney on 26 Feb 12Get the iphone apps for The Australian Curriculum and the National Professional Standards for Teachers.
