Innovation in Curriculum Design
Objectives
- To highlight the reasons why we need a new curriculum.
- To identify the ways in which a new curriculum can be created.
- To evaluate what ought to be taught in schools.
Key Concepts
Educational Innovation
Module overview
Marc Prensky proposes that today’s existing, world-wide curriculum — based on offering roughly the same math, language arts, science and social studies to all — is not what is required for the future, and is hurting rather than helping the world’s students. Math, language arts, science and social studies, he argues, are really “proxies” for a small number of identifiable underlying skills which can be taught in other, more useful ways, and furthermore, he says, there are many other skills students need that we do not offer at all — particularly in the areas of action, relationships and accomplishment.
This module considers a different curricular organization, based on the four key areas of Effective Thinking, Effective Action, Effective Relationships and Effective Accomplishment.
Details
Skills
Digital Literacy 
Futures Thinking
Creativity & Imagination 
Big Picture Thinking 
Risk-taking & Adaptability
Moonshot Thinking
Cross Curricular programs and links
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