![]() Here, students participate in national and regional sessions with students of different backgrounds to discuss current challenges in the European Union. Or there's the school’s European Parliament for Young People Program, which provides a hands-on experience for learning civic duty. For example, the school has a Young Entrepreneurship Program, where students work in groups to design and create their own business and then compete in national competitions against other young entrepreneurs. This school is ranked as one of the best schools in Finland, a country that consistently ranks as one of the best-performing education systems in the world.ĮTIS offers a curriculum that seeks to develop skills such as collaboration, entrepreneurship, active citizenship, and social awareness through real-world application. If you’re wondering what these shifts will look like in practice, look no further than South Tapiola High School (also known as ETIS). ![]() More immersive learning – harnessing technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality to bring topics to life and immerse students in a subject.(That’s less than a goldfish!) In the future, more education will have to be delivered as bite-sized, snackable content. More bite-sized learning – because, according to a study by Microsoft, humans now have an attention span of around eight seconds.More collaborative, project-based and problem-based learning – which better reflects the 21 st century workplace.More personalized, self-paced, and self-directed learning – in which learning becomes much more flexible and is paced to suit the needs of each student.More digitized content and online learning – a trend that has drastically been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() Some of the key enablers of this change are: In particular, I believe the teachers of the future will become facilitators rather than content deliverers. But in order to teach the skills that are necessary to thrive in the 21 st century, and create the leaders that our world needs, the way in which education is delivered must adapt. I'm married to a teacher and am filled with admiration and respect for the work that educators do. This isn't to criticize teachers and lecturers, far from it. In classrooms and lecture halls around the world, students still mostly sit facing the front, listening to the teacher deliver content that they’re expected to memorize.
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