Technology and globalisation are transforming work.

However, education, learning and training systems, are substandard and lagging behind for the skills we need to develop for the future.

Education is key if we are to prepare students for the future world of work.

According to Paul Kruchoski, Policy adviser, US Department of State, by 2040, many of the children born this year will be joining the workforce. Their world of work will be vastly different, shaped by artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, synthetic biology and many other emerging technologies.

We need innovative places of learning that can provide the next generation with the skills of the future.

I Love This Cutting-Edge School Design

   I love that approach. When students get out in the world, they have to organise their own time, have goals, and realise what they’re behind on. It’s fantastic to see them getting a head start on those skills in school.

Bill Gates

According to Sir Michael Barber in his forward of a research paper: A Rich Seam – How New Pedagogies Find Deep Learning, by Michael Fullan & Maria Langworthy, remind us that the digital revolution is transforming the way children and young people play, access information, communicate with each other and learn. But, so far, this revolution has not transformed most schools or most teaching and learning in classrooms.

The research on brain activity by Rosalind Picard and her colleagues at MIT’s Media Lab suggests that students’ brain activity is nearly non-existent during lectures – even lower than when they are asleep, or as Professor Eric Mazur of Harvard University’s Physics Depar tment puts it, students “are more asleep during lectures than when they are in bed!”

For these reasons, we need a new pedagogy.

According to FrameWorks Institute research, digital media applications for learning represent a challenge that with strong reframing tools can help in moving our education system forward, by making learning relevant, enhance critical thinking skills, and empower students to be active participants in knowledge creation.

Reframing the Education Conversation through a Core Story

Reframing the Education Conversation through a Core Story Approach, relates to the process of skill development, and effective methods of assessing learning to facilitate communication about education and learning.

A FrameWorks Communications Interactive Toolkit >

The 6 Cs of Deep Learning

Michael Fullan & Maria Langworthy contest that the new pedagogy is based on a learning partnership between and among students and teachers, and is

enabled by digital technology to produce deep learning outcomes, as related below in the 6 Cs:

   Character education — honesty, self-management and responsibility, work intensity, perseverance, empathy, self confidence, health and wellbeing, career and life skills.

   Citizenship — global knowledge, sensitivity to and respect for other cultures, and issues of human and environmental sustainability.

   Communication & Listening skills — communicate effectively orally, in writing and with a variety of digital tools.

    Critical thinking and problem solving — manage projects, make effective decisions.

   Collaboration — work in teams, learn from and contribute to the learning of others, social networking skills, empathy in working with diverse others.

   Creativity and imagination —considering and pursuing novel ideas, and leadership for action.