Future Friendly Schools-Living Laboratories for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Future Friendly Schools was started to address the fact that our world is changing rapidly and realizing that students need to be taught the skills that will keep them motivated and challenged in order to be informed and creative problem solvers in our complex world. The program focuses on 3 values:
Below are some resources that may be helpful in understanding the three values.
Stewart, Vivien. "Becoming Citizens of the World." Educational Leadership 64, no. 7 (2007): 7-14.
Bridgeland, John M., John J. DiIulio, Jr., and Karen Burke Morison. The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts. A report from Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2006.
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation. Environment-based Education: Creating High Performance Schools and Students. Washington, DC: The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, 2000.
Program participants become connected through project-based learning and immersive use of information and communicative technologies. These approaches, among other things, help to increase retention of information through authentic activities and the use of technology to connect globally. School professionals who join are offered either in-person or online training in order to bring the very best to their students. The goal is to connect, celebrate and collaborate-working off each others ideas while honing the skills needed to attack the solving problems that arise in our world everyday. I love the idea of this program because it forces educators and administrators to see the bigger picture-the
world beyond our classroom walls and offers a solution in this well-established program. I see the value in this program, too, as it makes students aware of the opportunities they may never have known existed. The more you know...the more you know! More information can be found at http://www.futurefriendlyschools.org
The presenter of this program, Michael Furdyk, spoke at a quick pace and I noticed that a lot of people who attended the the conference were well-informed with this topic and knew each other from previous conferences. It was sometimes difficult for me to follow since this was something new to me. During question time, I noticed that someone else who attended the conference asked him to slow down when he was speaking Not sure it helped so much. Overall, attending the conference online allows me to see that students would benefit from this form of communication to connect with people globally.
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