Contemporary Learning
21st century education integrates technologies, engaging students in ways not previously possible, creating new learning and teaching possibilities, enhancing achievement and extending interactions with local and global communities.
Are my learning and teaching strategies Contemporary?
Supporting the Learner
Rigorous and relevant learning opportunities lead students to explore and question significant ideas and create new knowledge. When learning is personalised, students’ interests and experiences are valued and reflected in the curriculum. Learners are supported by explicit and scaffolded teaching to engage fully in their learning.
Learning spaces that connect learners to communities beyond the school provide opportunities to engage with diverse perspectives and collaborate with others. Flexible access enables learning anywhere, anytime.
When teachers create a climate that promotes inquiry and creative exploration of ideas, learners are supported to engage in deep and powerful learning.
Enabling the Learner
Contemporary learning gives careful attention to identifying core knowledge, skills and understandings are required to be successful in and participate fully in today’s world. Powerful learning opportunities are created for students when core knowledge and skills are integrated across the curriculum in authentic ways.
Reflection, high order thinking, creativity, collaboration and the use of contemporary literacies must now be considered core capacities. These are important for creating new knowledge and participating in and contributing to community.
To successfully participate in and contribute to today’s world, students need to develop culturally relevant and valued literate practices. They need to create and interact with diverse text forms and engage critically and effectively in a multi-modal world. Essential to a contemporary view of literacy is the capacity to communicate appropriately across a range of social contexts.
Engaging in the Contemporary World
Curriculum designed to engage students in the contemporary world leads students to develop deep understandings about themselves, others and the world. Building learning relationships within the global and local community creates authentic opportunities for students to learn from and with others. Powerful learning experiences enable students to take responsibility for themselves and commit to authentic action.
Engagement in the contemporary world enables ongoing personal transformation; a way of discovering God and meaning about self and the world; the potential of the human person and of empowering individuals to be responsible for their lives.
In a Catholic school context engagement in the contemporary world through a commitment to action is developed within the framework of a school’s vision which inspires compassion, justice and service.
Rigorous and relevant learning opportunities lead students to explore and question significant ideas and create new knowledge. When learning is personalised, students’ interests and experiences are valued and reflected in the curriculum. Learners are supported by explicit and scaffolded teaching to engage fully in their learning.
Learning spaces that connect learners to communities beyond the school provide opportunities to engage with diverse perspectives and collaborate with others. Flexible access enables learning anywhere, anytime.
When teachers create a climate that promotes inquiry and creative exploration of ideas, learners are supported to engage in deep and powerful learning.
Enabling the Learner
Contemporary learning gives careful attention to identifying core knowledge, skills and understandings are required to be successful in and participate fully in today’s world. Powerful learning opportunities are created for students when core knowledge and skills are integrated across the curriculum in authentic ways.
Reflection, high order thinking, creativity, collaboration and the use of contemporary literacies must now be considered core capacities. These are important for creating new knowledge and participating in and contributing to community.
To successfully participate in and contribute to today’s world, students need to develop culturally relevant and valued literate practices. They need to create and interact with diverse text forms and engage critically and effectively in a multi-modal world. Essential to a contemporary view of literacy is the capacity to communicate appropriately across a range of social contexts.
Engaging in the Contemporary World
Curriculum designed to engage students in the contemporary world leads students to develop deep understandings about themselves, others and the world. Building learning relationships within the global and local community creates authentic opportunities for students to learn from and with others. Powerful learning experiences enable students to take responsibility for themselves and commit to authentic action.
Engagement in the contemporary world enables ongoing personal transformation; a way of discovering God and meaning about self and the world; the potential of the human person and of empowering individuals to be responsible for their lives.
In a Catholic school context engagement in the contemporary world through a commitment to action is developed within the framework of a school’s vision which inspires compassion, justice and service.
Based on a framework developed by the Contemporary Learning Working Group for
Catholic Network Australia
Copied from http://www.asacredlandscape.catholic.edu.au/contemporary-learning/
Accessed September 2013
Catholic Network Australia
Copied from http://www.asacredlandscape.catholic.edu.au/contemporary-learning/
Accessed September 2013
Use the attached checklist to decide if your units of work are Contemporary.
