4-D Innovation in Curricula...Charles Fadel At NEASC, Boston MA December 11, 2015 [email protected] 4-D Innovation in Curricula The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed Knowledge

Charles Fadel At NEASC, Boston MA

December 11, 2015

[email protected]

4-D Innovation in Curricula

The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed

Knowledge | Skills | Character | Meta-Learning

Twitter: @CurrRedesign

#4D_EDU

© Charles Fadel – All Rights Reserved

Music exercise – Audio


“1950”


Enjoying artistry


Question

What will the world be like 20 years from now?


Climate change Personal privacy

Financial instability Political partisanship

The road ahead is challenging…

Inequities

Technological disruptions

Religious intolerance


Volatile

Uncertain

Complex

Ambiguous

Our New World


Second Question

What will the world be like 20 years from now?

What will you need to be successful in that world?


Source: Video extract from “Occupy Wall Street”

The stakes have never been higher


Disconnect between employers and educators


The Goals of Education: Maslow’s Pyramid

Employability


The Impact of Technology


Growing Concern


“~50% of US jobs potentially automatable”

Source: Oxford Martin School: The Future of Employment; September 2013


Accelerating Change Demands Different Skills

e.g. consultants

e.g. engineers

e.g. paperwork

e.g. assembly

work

e.g. plumbing

Source: David Autor, MIT


The Power of Exponentials


Google Autonomous Vehicle - Videos

> 1 Million miles,

14 minor accidents,

all human-induced


Computerized Trading – Flash Crash

>60% of volume is now “high-speed trading”


Even modeling

Source: Le Monde Culture & Idees, December 24, 2011

H&M admits using a mannequin as digital model with “no flaws”


Meet Zoe - Video

Source: University of Cambridge Research Labs, UK


Computers can sketch too !

Seven artists generated about 8,000 pen strokes for the sketches.

Individual artist preferences were included in the data.

Disney's software analyzed how greatly artists exaggerated the distance between facial features.


Even Pop Stars

Video – Hatsune Miku, “Vocaloid”


WikiBots

42% of Wikipedia is edited by 12 bots !



Displacement due to Technology

Ox Harvester

Horse Automobile

Lab Mice Assays (not soon enough…)

Humans:

Scribes printing press

Washers washing machine

Cashiers/Attendants bar code scanner

Healthcare/Finance/Services/Jeopardy champions Watson

etc


“What is…?”

"I for one welcome our new computer overlords“

Ken Jennings,

Jeopardy champion, lost to Watson


“…in medical education we’re still a very memory-based curriculum… Watson-like tools will cause us to reconsider what students do”

Dr Herbert Chase

Columbia University

New York Times, Feb. 17, 2011


More to come – Augmented Reality - Video


Will we need to learn a foreign language?

iPhone app: Speech-to-speech translator

for 95% of world population (23 languages)

http://www.ustar-consortium.com/

Google goggles with Translate

Demos


More to come… Virtual Reality - Video


On the road to ExoBrain

Source: Moravec/Kurzweil/SU


Innovation follows patterns automatable

Source: Invention Machine “IM Labs”


More to come… Robotics

Video: Aldebaran Robotics


Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour

Momentum Machines claim Alpha will save a restaurant enough money that it pays for itself in a year.

No cashiers or servers. Customers punch in their order, pay, and wait at a dispensing window.

http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image7A.jpg


Robots learning from each other

RoboEarth: knowledge and experience are shared worldwide on a central, online database.

Some computing and “thinking” tasks can be carried out in the Cloud

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/RoboEarth_robot.jpg

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/RoboEarth1.jpg



High-speed manipulation - Video


And more, including flying - Video


Emotional Anthropomorphization

A.I. companion: Movie “Her”

Japanese doll robots


What’s Likely – a Hybrid Future


More to come… 3-D Printing

“3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution”

September 13, 2010

“It’s about going from the Model T to something like a Mini

that has 10 million permutations.”

Scott Summit, Bespoke Innovations:


More to come… Internet of Things


More to come – Quantified Self


More to come… Bioengineering

Gene Sequencing (PCR) Gene Editing (CRISPR) Proteomics Synthetic Biology STEM cells Cloning Etc.

Profound consequences

Ethics, Wisdom !


More to come… Nanomaterials


More to come… Brain-enhancers


“The future is already here –

it's just not very evenly distributed.”

Science-Fiction author William Gibson


More True by the Day

“We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist… to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”

Richard Riley

Former U.S. Secretary of Education


The Race between Technology and Education

Inspired by “The race between

technology and education”

Pr. Goldin & Katz (Harvard)

Industrial Revolution

Social pain

Social pain

Prosperity

Technology

Education

Digital Revolution


We agree


So what do we teach for…

…in an era of ubiquitous Search and Artificial Intelligence?

How about:

• Wisdom

• Integrity

And also: (list not exhaustive)

• Fluidity with Technology

• Adaptability

• Resilience

• Curiosity

• Courage

• Self-Awareness

• Asking the right questions

• Synthesis/integration

• Creativity


60-second BREAK


Making Education Relevant

More >

© Center for Curriculum Redesign


What should students learn for the

21st century?


“Please, may I ask where you’re going with all this?”

Students beg for Relevance

Source: New Yorker


International

Organizations

International

Organizations

with key global players

International

Organizations

Jurisdictions

International

Organizations Academia

International

Organizations

Foundations

& Non-Profits

International

Organizations International

Organizations


VUCA world Adaptability Versatility as key strategy


From T-shaped to m-shaped

m T Broad Knowledge

Single Multiple

Deep Expertise

STEM AND Humanities/Arts


From the Master

“Technology alone is not enough… it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yield the results that make our hearts sing”.

Steve Jobs, iPad2 intro speech, March 2011


What else is needed ?

Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology ? Personal Finance/Economics ? Entrepreneurship ? Engineering ? Robotics ? Programming ? Recreational Maths in lower grades ? Linguistics ? Mythology ? Philosophy ? Ethics ? Journalism ? Woodworking ? Gardening ? 3D Printing ? Etc.


Reassess Knowledge for Relevance and Versatility


So…

What do we remove ?

Deep curation of every single

discipline’s branches, topics, items…


What other disciplines are needed ?

Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology ? Personal Finance/Economics ? Entrepreneurship ? Engineering ? Robotics ? Programming ? Recreational Maths in lower grades ? Linguistics ? Mythology ? Philosophy ? Ethics ? Journalism ? Woodworking ? Gardening ? 3D Printing ? Etc.


Introduce Modern Knowledge and Harness Interdisciplinarity

Robotics

Entrepreneurship

Wellness

and more…


Embed Cross Cutting Themes

Global Literacy

Information Literacy

Environmental Literacy

Digital Literacy

Systems Thinking

Design Thinking

Photo: Radek Szuban


Learn skills

4 C’s

• Creativity

• Critical Thinking

• Communication

• Collaboration


Build Character

• Mindfulness

• Curiosity

• Courage

• Resilience

• Ethics

• Leadership


Definition

“Character” =

“Agency, Aptitudes, Attitudes, Attributes, Behaviors, Characteristics, Compass, Dispositions,

Mindsets, Personality, Temperament, Values”

= “Social & Emotional Skills” (OECD)

“Non-Cognitive” “Soft skills”


Top Qualities Associated Qualities and Concepts (non-exhaustive)

Mindfulness

Wisdom, self-awareness, self-actualization, observation, reflection, consciousness, compassion,

gratitude, empathy, caring, growth, vision, insight, equanimity, happiness, presence, authenticity,

listening, sharing, interconnectedness, interdependence, oneness, acceptance, beauty,

sensibility, patience, tranquility, balance, spirituality, existentiality, social awareness, cross-cultural

awareness, gregariousness, warmth, sympathy, deliberation, esthetics ...

CuriosityOpen-mindedness, exploration, passion, self-direction, motivation, initiative,

innovation, enthusiasm, wonder, appreciation, spontaneity, activity, imagination, actions,

excitability…

CourageBravery, determination, fortitude, confidence, risk taking, persistence, toughness, assertiveness,

adventurousness, unconventionality, zest, optimism, inspiration, energy, vigor, zeal, cheerfulness,

humor…

ResiliencePerseverance, grit, tenacity, resourcefulness, spunk, self-discipline, effort, diligence, commitment,

self-control, self-esteem, confidence, stability, adaptability, dealing with ambiguity, flexibility,

feedback, …

Ethics

Benevolence, humaneness, integrity, respect, justice, equity, fairness, compassion, kindness,

altruism, inclusiveness, tolerance, acceptance, loyalty, honesty, truthfulness, straightforwardness,

authenticity, genuineness, trustworthiness, decency, consideration, forgiveness, virtue, love, care,

helpfulness, generosity, charity, devotion, belonging, civic-mindedness, citizenship, ...

Leadership

Responsibility, abnegation, accountability, dependability, reliability, conscientiousness, selflessness,

humbleness, modesty, self-reflection, inspiration, organization, delegation, mentorship, commitment,

compliance, dutifulness, achievement, heroism, charisma,followership, engagement, leading by

example, goal-orientation, focus, results orientation, precision, execution, efficiency,

negotiation, consistency, socialization, social intelligence, diversity, decorum...



A prescient view


21st Century Education Framework


Matrix between Knowledge and other Dimensions

Competencies are expressed through Knowledge domain

Some Competencies will need out-of-school development


Prescription vs. Choice

%

Prescribed

by Society

%

Chosen by

Individual

Child Adolescent Adult


“Clear and actionable first-of-its-

kind organizing framework of

competencies needed” Andreas Schleicher,

OECD

“Educators worldwide [need] to

rapidly operationalize these

dimensions” Todd Rose,

Harvard University

http://curriculumredesign.org/


SYNTHESIZE: - prior & existing frameworks

- input from employers

- research from the learning sciences

- future studies and global trends

ANALYZE: - surveys from teachers

- feedback from global conferences

- social media

- literature reviews + expert panels

ORGANIZE: - comprehensive: no major elements missing

- compact: actionable and deployable

- uncorrelated: no duplication or confusion

- appropriate layer of abstraction: sensical

- globally relevant: for broad acceptability

CCR’s research- & evidence-based Process


What are the impediments to change?

• Politics (acceptability, churn)

• Dogma (confirmation bias)

• “GroupThink” (conformance)

• Assessments (complexity)

• College entrance requirements (inertia)

Change requires Courage and Mindfulness…


Conclusion: AND not OR

Inspired by an inscription used by Charles Voysey, Britain 1896

Rationality + Action + Emotion

Knowledge + Skills + Character

+ Meta-Learning


What we wish to all


“What should students learn for the 21st century?”

Thank You !

Contact: [email protected]

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