As with learning to read, swim or play good football children will be much more effective social networkers with support, guidance and help than without
We need to educate young people to understand that it is wrong to write anything on a social networking site which you wouldn’t say to someone’s face
Second, Twitter and Facebook are, as has been well publicised, a groomer’s dream.
Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
Character is about how we engage in the world.
Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?