Teaching in the 22nd Century

The 22nd Century?  Are your years off a little?

Yes, we are just 16 years into the 21st Century.  Yes, we still have 84 years to go until the 22nd Century is beginning.

However, we have been talking about teaching for the 21st Century since my years in the public school system as a student in the 20th Century.  We need to have a forward focus.  Times and technology are changing extremely quickly.  This means we cannot just focus on the hear and now.  We need to focus forward.

This blog is dedicated to the forward focus in education.  We cannot teach our students with the same methods we did in the early 20th Century while we say we want to focus on the 21st Century.  We need to prepare our students for a world beyond the hear-and-now.

My oldest daughter is the class of 2028.
My youngest is the class of 2032.

What world will they be living in 84 years from now?  What world will their own children be living in 84 years from now?  Let's think forward - not stuck in the present with the past holding us back.