I’m sure you’ve seen this series of videos before on the rapidly changing world we reside in. I showed it to the class the other day after the principal prompted some thought on how education is/should be changing when discussing this with the class.

So I asked: What does this mean for your education? For WHAT and HOW you should be learning?

Here are their ideas:

• Maybe sports are not useful. But perhaps it helps with your health.
• You need to be taught to think for yourself.
• You need to be taught how to be independent.
• It’s more about teaching us skills than knowing a bunch of stuff.
• You need to learn to problem solve.
• The basics are always going to be important – maths, reading and writing…
• Perhaps art is not important.
• Letting students be creative is important – thinking outside the box.
• Teach us strategies to work things out for ourselves, but not the answers.
• Kids need to know where their next steps are.
• Kids need to be taught how to cope with changes.
• Be adaptable.
• Be patient.
• Listening skills.
• How to research and find out things for yourself.
• Collaboration.
• Confidence.
• Respecting others’ ideas and differences.
• Being committed, self disciplined and dedicated.
• Thinking of others, not just yourself.