The Huffington Post – C.M. Rubin
“If we want to transform the K-12 education system to meet the needs and challenges of 21st-century citizenship and leadership, we need to ensure global learning is available for all. The world has changed…Education is affected by the same trends we see in business, government and our day-to-day lives: rapid technological advances, increasing interconnectivity, higher levels of diversity, and greater levels of uncertainty in how to handle complex problems. As these trends increase, there is more pressure for the education sector to respond at all levels – this includes a recognition that we must engage with the world in order to better prepare students…All of this is happening in a considerably more global, interconnected world, which requires a different kind of preparation for young people – critical and creative thinking, empathy, comfort with ambiguity and willingness to change.”(more)