#GELPedu - The Shared Responsibility of Learning with Charles Leadbetter
Leadbetter opened by talking about his paper that addressed Personalised Learning in 2004, which at the time was challenged and picked and apart - it is heartening that the discourse around personalised learning is so strong now. There's enormous agreement about where we are at and what we need to do. Now we need to move on. The system that we have inherited is running into the sand. There is a sense that we want different things. We need to do something different to do something better. But education is gripped by a cartel of fear. Even when we praise the new we are holding on to the old models. Pisa is measuring measuring success of a an old model. Making change is the blue arrow and often feels tumultuous. There is a universal dialogue about competencies and fluencies needed for the 21C Learner. What do we need to learning why? How do we do it systematically? Where does it happen and who's involved? He then used the analogy of self checkout at the...