NPDL Global Deep Learning Task 2019
#NPDLfutureschool
Our thanks to Avon Maitland DSB for developing this learning opportunity
Project Goal: To host a live, collaborative conversation on a topic of global relevance with students
According to OECD, “Future-ready students need to exercise agency, in their own education and throughout life. Agency implies a sense of responsibility to participate in the world and, in so doing, to influence people, events and circumstances for the better. Agency requires the ability to frame a guiding purpose and identify actions to achieve a goal. To help enable agency, educators must not only recognize learners’ individuality, but also acknowledge the wider set of relationships – with their teachers, peers, families and communities – that influence their learning.”
“Students who are best prepared for the future are change agents. They can have a positive impact on their surroundings, influence the future, understand others’ intentions, actions and feelings, and anticipate the short and long-term consequences of what they do.” (The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030, OECD 2018)
Platform(s):
Twitter #NPDLfutureschool
Scope and Sequence:
- Cluster leads are encouraged to share this resource with their district/board/school NPDL leads and teachers, to generate interest in participating in this deep learning task across their school/district/country clusters
- Interested participants are given the prompt as a discussion starter, as well as the following resources:
- http://www.oecd.org/education/Envisioning-the-future-of-education-and-jobs.pdf
- UN Sustainable Goal #4 Quality education
- Learners interact with the relevant resources prior to the collaborative, digital conversation
- Learners pursue an understanding of, and create an action plan that is most relevant to them based on their context to respond to the prompt
- Learners create an action plan, and share via the hashtag #NPDLfutureschool and/or in a Twitter chat prior to and during the Global DLL (Toronto 2019)
- Avon Maitland District School Board NPDL Leads can moderate a Twitter conversation (prior to and during the NPDL Deep Learning Lab, November 2019)
- Leading up to and during the Global DLL, participants will be encouraged to interact, ask questions and celebrate each other’s contributions and learning via twitter
- #NPDLfutureschool tweets will be projected at the Global Deep Learning Lab (Toronto, 2019))
- After the conversation, participants will be encouraged to continue collaborating with other learners in the chat from around the world
NPDL Progression/Dimension Connections:
| Critical Thinking | Communication | Collaboration | Creativity | Character | Citizenship |
| Collaborative Knowledge construction | Leveraging Digital | Social, emotional, and intercultural skills | Considering and pursuing novel ideas and solutions | Self-regulation and responsibility for learning | Solving ambiguous and complex problems in the real world to benefit citizens |
Four elements connections
| Pedagogical Practices
◻ Task is designed based on the interest and needs of all students ◻ Learning is personalized ◻ Student choice is embedded in the task ◻ Collaboration opportunities are continuous ◻ Task is authentic (based on real problems, real questions) ◻ Innovative strategies that leverage digital ◻ Clear learning goals ◻ Clear success criteria |
Learning Environments
◻ Task incorporates student voice ◻ Task requires purposeful learning partnerships ◻ Task accounts for the interests and needs of all students ◻ Learning is interactive ◻ Learning environment is authentic ◻ Learning environment includes virtual component |
| Learning Partnerships
◻ Task requires purposeful learning partnerships ◻ Task ensures equity among partners ◻ Clear, transparent learning goals for all partners ◻ Clear, transparent success criteria for all partners |
Leveraging Digital
◻ Digital enables efficient and meaningful collaboration ◻ Digital is used to share new knowledge ◻ Task requires the use of digital |