21st Century Learning? Is This the Answer!

As you read all the articles and blogs, view the videos, and sort through what everybody is saying about the change so badly needed in education you find this concept has so many parts it's hard to nail it all down. But then I read the article called: 30 Strategies for Education Reform by Prakash Nair located at http://fieldingnair.com/edreformnair1.pdf . Prakash is not an educationalist. He's an architect who's part of a global award winning company that designs and builds schools. As he worked on schools he realized that he needed to focus on how students learn in coming up with how to build a school building. As he looked at all the research, he brought together these 30 strategies for today's learning.

He begins this online guidebook with this thought and I quote: "In education, there is widespread support for the idea that every student is important and yet, in practice, systems are set up to favor a few at the expense of the many." After giving supports for why reform is needed he gives individual guidance for superintendents and board members, principals, parents, teachers, and students on how to use the guidebook. He then lists the 30 strategies while linking them to three categories (pedagogy, organization, and non-academic). After that he gives an overview of each of the strategies. He concludes the guidebook with a survey to get you to put into action what you have just read.

I highly recommend this as a great read. It brings together what everyone is saying and puts wheels on how to get going with 21st century learning and being a world class classroom and school.