21st Century Learning and Teaching
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher. ~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom
The 21st Century is well-under way, and this century requires us to do things like we have never done before, and demands we have a competent understanding of the basics of yesteryear. Rather than being able to read and write as one of the meaningful ends of schooling, we need to be confident, effective readers, first, and use these abilities to aid in life-long understanding. It also requires that we attune to becoming evermore critically and visually literate. So, this century may require us to teach with an intentionality of seeing the world that much differently: one full of possibility and imagination.
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