Curriculum Must be Updated for the Information Age
New York, NY (PRWEB) August 30, 2016 -- Stanford studies indicate that students are both overloaded and underprepared. According to the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) founder Charles Fadel, “We must deeply redesign curriculum to be relevant to the knowledge, skills, character qualities, and meta-learning students will need in their lives.” During the 1800’s, curriculum was transformed to catch up with the industrial revolution. However, the majority of this now antiquated structure has remained. How to revise Curriculum for the Information Age in the current over-crowded system?
In C. M. Rubin’s new interview with Fadel, he relates that the unpredictability of the future forces education systems to reimagine their idea of Curriculum: “There are both technological and human changes occurring that will change the fabric of daily life.” Fadel explains that across traditional and modern knowledge his organization is working “to both simplify and connect the content: simplify by boiling down subjects to their essential questions; and connect by highlighting themes across subjects, adding the myriad connections that exist between a subject and all other relevant subjects, and the connections to its application in the world.”
CCR is organizing a framework of competencies needed for this century, to establish not only the How of educating but What is necessary to learn. Fadel notes, “We are taking the trends identified by futurists and economists, and connecting them to relevant fields of study and competencies required.”
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