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Future-focussed education and your TPACK
The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) describes the future focus principle as “encouraging students to look to the future by exploring such significant future focused issues as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise, and globalisation.
Today’s teaching and learning needs to be conducted through a future-focused lens. Schools play an important part in helping students explore new ways of thinking and working. As teachers we are shaping tomorrows leaders, we are setting our students up for jobs and careers that may not even exist today. Students need to be taught the necessary skills to survive in an ever-changing environment.
In order for students to look to the future and explore the future focused issues, they need to develop the knowledge and skills to support this exploration. Learners need to make connections about what they already know and what they are learning. If learners are able to make links, they are able to deepen their understanding. Learning needs to be co-constructed, learners need to be involved in developing the learning context, as learning needs to be relevant and engaging. Learning needs to collaborative, through working in groups, sharing ideas, developing interpersonal skills (Abraham, 2018).
In order to meet the needs of the future, a learner today needs to be able to think creatively, think critically, work collaboratively and communicate effectively. Through incorporating technology into future-focused learning, students will be able to achieve this.
Future-focused learning is personalised, it allows students to take control and drive their own learning, as they understand how they learn and are co-designers of their learning. In an environment where learning is personalised, student’s needs, interests and learning pace will all be different. The advantage of technology in a personalised environment, is that the students can become experts and can work with their teacher addressing their needs, at a pace that is best for them (Ministry of Education, n.d.).
My TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) is my understanding of how technological tools can enhance my teaching and support student learning more deeply and effectively. I believe that through incorporating technology and technological tools into the classroom and integrating it into my teaching, I will be able to provide my students with a much deeper and more effective learning experience.
Future-focused learning become inclusive when it is conducted in a personalised learning environment. This happens through engaging learners and their whanau to co-shape education to address the students individual needs, strengths, interests and aspirations. It is also inclusive because technology can assist learning to be accessed anywhere, at any time.
Future-focused learning becomes bicultural through the use of ako (Ministry of Education, 2001), where we rethink the roles of the learner and the teacher. Teachers and students can work together to build knowledge together. The student can teach this knowledge, not only the teacher.
Reference List
Abraham, M. (2018). What is future-focused schooling? Retireved from http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-resources/NZC-Online-blog/What-is-future-focused-schooling
Ministry of Education. (n.d.). Future-focused learning is personalised.Retrieved from
Ministry of Education, (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Wellington, New Zealand: Learning Media Limited.
Ministry of Education, (2011). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Education
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