What will education look like in 20 years?
My Insights on the article: 21st-Century learning: Sailing the seven C’s, posted by Brian Bullock-Staff Writer Mar 31, 2010 (https://santamariatimes.com/news/local/education/st-century-learning-sailing-the-seven-c-s/article_0e50cdb0-3c8d-11df-b267-001cc4c002e0.html)
A) The Forum: The members of the Oracle Education Foundation gather together to provide answers to the question, "What will education look like in 20 years?" at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. The compositions are university and college presidents, an industry training expert, and the global director of the foundation. All present their view of how education is evolving. This gathering helps the Lucia Mar Unified School District to develop a long-range plan for its curriculum.
B) The Focus: The director of the foundation says that framework for 21st Century Learning Skills focuses on the 7C's, which include: critical thinking, creativity and innovation; collaboration; cross-cultural understanding; communication; computing technology, and career learning. And not the 3R's— reading, writing and arithmetic — the core of traditional education. There is a need to restructure the long-overdue educational system by teaching career-and-skills-based learning. "Lifelong learning is the key to success in the 21st century," the director said.
C) The Co-curricular Learning: One university president presented that more than haft of the alumni in the university responded that they learned more from an informal co-curricular activity like student professional organizations, clubs, and senior projects than the traditional classroom and lab instruction. He said, "We can no longer be the sage on the stage. We need to be the guide on the side".
D) The Understanding Other Culture: One university president said the educational system of America should not focus only on the English language and roots. They are encouraging the school to offer foreign languages to study, which leads them to a better understanding of other cultures.
E) The Employer's Needs: One company owner said that he is looking for a school that could provide workers trained to be problem solvers, collaborators, critical thinkers, and leaders. He said most companies now can't afford a massive training program because of the economy. On clean energy industries such as solar, biofuels, energy conservation, the Smart Grid, and wind power, jobs are available, but no one is skillful from the graduates.
F) The High-technology Future: All educational leaders at the forum convince to combine the traditional curriculum to the project-based, life, and career skills training. The high-technology future needs these.
G) The coming Two More Forums: Lucia Mar superintendent plans to conduct two more forums to discuss how to adapt the 21st Century Skills to their curriculum.
II. My Insights:
The forum convinced all the participants to restructure the old curriculum by incorporating the career-and-skills-based learning in preparation for the 21st-Century skills. The Philippine Educational System is also tracking this development. The Department of Education (DepEd) implemented the K to 12 program that provides sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment, and entrepreneurship. The department also extended the necessary training up to twelve years to cope up with the educational system of other countries. The K to 12 programs have six salient features: 1) early childhood education through Kindergarten, 2) curriculum to be relevance, 3) integrated and seamless learning, 4) building proficiency through multi-lingual education, 5) provision of career tracks and 6) nurturing holistically developed Filipino (https://www.pap.org.ph/donec-massa-id-mi-tincidunt).
The forum also convinced the participants to offer foreign language subjects to their respective schools as a tool for a better understanding of other cultures. Opposite to what is happening in the K to 12 program of the Philippine Educational System. K to 12 program introduced Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) specifically in Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2, and 3 to support the goal of “ Every Child- A- Reader, and A –Writer” by Grade 1.” DepEd believes that the significant factor of Filipino high functional illiteracy is the language perse since the learner cannot express easily with other languages. Then, they are afraid of making a mistake in their word construction. (http://www.cu.edu.ph/?page_id=3290)
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