If you are responsible for the shape of your school’s curriculum development or working at a strategic level here’s some good bedtime reading.
It’s by George Siemens and was published a while ago in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (phew!).
A lot of the recent developments in the UK national curriculum seem to reflect his line of thinking but I’m still aware that the way that schools are driven and measured here revolves more and more round a narrower set of skills. Schools “succeed” or “fail” on their A-C’s in Maths and English.
Surely schools will naturally focus resources on avoiding “National Challenge” status or “Special Measures” rather than equipping their students to become effective “future-proof” learners.
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