Education Innovation
Module 5
What Future For Education
6 Courses
What future for education? Platform: Coursera Institution: University of London & UCL Institute of Education Started: 21/10/2016 Finished: 01/09/2020 Testing Times in the Classroom: Challenges of 21st Century Education Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Exeter Started: 06/06/2020 Finished: 07/06/2020 Teaching Future-Ready Students Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 18/01/2018 Finished: 19/01/2018 From Art Making to Art Thinking Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 03/03/2018 Finished: 14/03/2018 Building Character Through Youth Social Action Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Birmingham Started: 29/06/2018 Finished: 29/06/2018 Build a Makerspace for Young People Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Raspberry Pi Foundation Started: 03/07/2018 Finished: 03/07/2018
1 Book
Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere Author: Will Richardson Publisher: TED Conferences Published: 2012 Started: 15/01/2019 Finished: 16/01/2019
“We need to ask some hard questions too of the way we educate and train our children. To what extent are we bringing them up to be ‘good soldiers’, compliant and well conformed? In a straitened economy, the percieved risks of being outspoken and the implied rewards of obedience are immense. Yes, I can hear a thousand teachers despairing at the prospect of more argument but it’s the silent classrooms that scare me.“
Margaret Heffernan, Wilfull Blindness: Why we ignore the obvious at our peril, 2012:329
Education is the future. Education it is all our futures. The education we teach today ends up being the realities of tomorrow. So why would you teach an outdated and uninspiring curriculum that will leave us all worse off?
This module takes its cues from the MOOC it is named after and picks up where the previous module left off by more specifically envisioning what a progressive education system fit for the 21st-century would actually look like.
I found the What Future for Education course especially useful as it had many reflection exercises I had to complete that were invaulable in allowing to focus what I saw as the problems of the traditional formal education system and to lay out my ideas for what needs to change in order to make it better.