This book constructs a framework to answer this question. The four dimensions of this framework are knowledge (what students know and understand), skill (how students apply it), personality (students' behavior and investment) and meta-learning (how students reflect on themselves, adjust themselves through continuous learning and develop themselves based on goals).
Four-dimensional education: the necessary quality for learners to succeed/(USA) Charles Fidel, (USA) Maya Bialik, (USA) Bernie Trilling; Translated by Luo Dehong. -Shanghai: East China Normal University Press
From international organizations
In the four-dimensional education, the author puts forward some unique and profound educational strategies. What courses should young people take at school? The existing consensus is unclear and outdated. "Four-dimensional Education" timely analyzes the system boundary that constitutes the learning content and gives a clear answer. The author not only suggests stepping within the boundaries of the existing educational content, but also encourages jumping out of the boundaries and establishing orderly learning goals and organizations. Where are you going? The author encourages us to carry out two-way innovation.
-Riel Miller, Leader of the Future Forum of UNESCO.
The curriculum content of any country embodies its values and hopes for the next generation. Four-dimensional education focuses on the "content" of curriculum design, puts forward rich and practical opinions, and stimulates the thinking of policy makers and educational practitioners.
-Joe Hale Hall Garten, leader of grand curriculum design and director of education of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
Four-dimensional education has initiated a profound, powerful and comprehensive dialogue to explore the core challenge of our society-how to transform our education system to effectively meet the needs and expectations of globalization in the 2/kloc-0 century. USCIB was honored to participate in this dialogue. We had a series of round-table interactions with the Curriculum Redesign Center (CCR), which brought new perspectives to educators, economists and business people, and helped students build our desired world.
-Peter M.Robinson, CEO and Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the United States, is from this company.
What should students learn in the era of search, robotics and artificial intelligence? The progress of technology and the explosion of information force us to rethink the traditional content-centered education system. "Four-dimensional Education" deeply understands the changes of modern society and labor demand, encourages us to take the major changes of education curriculum as the starting point and emphasizes the deep literacy including relevant modern knowledge.
—— Steve Winter, Director of Google Cambridge Website
In a rapidly changing world, Four-dimensional Education is a must-read for those who are interested in future education. The best way to predict the future is to inspire the next generation of students to build the world better.
-Jim spohr, Director of the Project Department of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
Everyone related to education and education reform should interpret education from four dimensions. Author Fadel and other co-authors build a platform for multi-stakeholders to seek common ground while reserving differences with unique language and architecture diagram, and provide various means for the development and comparison of innovation systems.
John abel, Boston Science.
Founding Chairman of Boston Scientific Company and Chairman of Argosy Foundation.
As scientists, humanists, engineers, artists ... as lifelong educators and learners ... as parents, as human beings ... for our children, we have been trying to cut educational courses and design courses according to their professional and life experiences to improve the nutrition of the courses. We must put our courses in an interdisciplinary structure and teach students how to think, how to learn, how to synthesize information and use critical insight. Four-dimensional Education is such a book. It builds an analytical and practical foundation-involving all the needs of the whole brain, the whole person and the whole society, and promotes us to carry out creative reform on the educational goal of K- 12. Four-dimensional education poses a constructive challenge to the traditional and irrelevant curriculum structure. Let this book become a horn, arouse our actions, join the mission of curriculum reconstruction center and actively participate in the mission of building the future of the earth.
-Kristen Wright, Director of Cisco R&D Innovation Department of Cisco Systems.
Education needs a fundamental change from top to bottom. Four dimensions of education, from curriculum to teaching to evaluation, provide rationality for this changing demand at every ideological level, and make this changing demand the center-the changing structure designed in this book has a wide range of needs, which is similar to the abbreviation of basic mathematics and STEM[[ science, technology, engineering and mathematics] that we created on computerbasedmath.org website.
-Conrad Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research Europe, from academic institutions.
Four-dimensional education has built a comprehensive framework for personalized education in 2 1 century: it is comprehensive and adaptive, but it also allows choices to meet regional needs. Traditional knowledge is not all, but it involves all aspects of education. Educators and policy makers all over the world have taken prompt action to educate our students and society from four aspects: knowledge, skills, personality and meta-learning.
-Todd Rose, Director of the Department of Thinking, Brain and Educational Projects of the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.
Four-dimensional education has established a clear curriculum path between these two research frontiers. One frontier is to evaluate how new technologies have surprisingly reconstructed our future job opportunities and skills needs, and the other frontier is how to provide the future workforce (our children) with the skills they need to compete and develop. This bookshelf connects these two fields and provides us with wise and practical views to guide us on how to cultivate students' and citizens' abilities of analysis, communication, interaction and adaptation.
-David Autor, Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at MIT.
"Four-dimensional Education" deeply analyzes the ability that students in today's and future world need to develop, and helps educators understand and explore the key choices we face directly.
-Carol Dwek, Lewis and Virginia Eaton (Lewis &; Virginia Eton) Professor of Psychology.
It can be said that the biggest challenge facing mankind in the 2 1 century is education, but few organizations make great efforts to think and analyze it like the curriculum reconstruction center. What do children need to know in today's era? Our education system has been running step by step for centuries, but the knowledge, skills and quality we need to learn are changing with each passing day. I recommend four-dimensional education to people who care about the future. Very insightful, comprehensive, far-sighted and logical. Pointed out the direction for the development of the next generation.
-Rick Miller, Dean of Olin Mechanical College.
The rapid development of technology provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to cope with great challenges, and at the same time, it also breaks our old behavior habits. Four-dimensional education has constructed a road map of sustainable learning, encouraging teenagers and adults to break the generation gap and develop together in the era of drastic changes.
-Rob Nail, co-founder and CEO of Singularity University, comes from foundations and NGOs.
Nowadays, aspiring groups all over the world are committed to ensuring that every child can receive an education that will help him to give full play to his potential, so the first question must be: What is our ultimate goal? Different group situations and cultures have different answers, but they inevitably involve the sense of global responsibility and the world's expectations of today's children. Education in Four Dimensions is a treasure excavated by world-famous education leaders. It provides the latest understanding of knowledge, skills, personality and meta-learning necessary for success, and it is an inexhaustible and beneficial resource for educators in all regions of the world to train students to create the future.
Wendy Kopp, CEO and co-founder of Education for All.
"Four-dimensional Education" expounds the incisive viewpoint of changing education and how we view education, which is convincing. There are more and more obvious signs that the global economy is driven by wisdom and innovation, and success depends on the reform of the education system. From the foundation of K- 12 education to the entrance requirements of higher education, and then to the ability and demand of the labor force, this book inspires us to redefine what success is.
-Matt matt williams, Vice Chairman of Policy and Consulting Program of Knowledge Engineering Foundation.
Education in Four Dimensions is a sequel to Fidel and Trilling's debut novel Skills in the 20th Century (2 1 Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Time). This paper expounds the necessity and future vision of global education reform, which is eye-catching and novel. This book tells the essential qualities for learners to succeed in the 2 1 century in concise and easy-to-understand language, and is a must-read masterpiece for everyone.
-Dr. Helen Sol, Executive Director of the 2 1 Century Learning (P2 1) project.
Four-dimensional Education is a masterpiece launched by the Curriculum Reconstruction Center on the basis of a large number of studies on future education. It is a must-read for innovation-driven leaders and teachers with global vision, and an excellent choice for parents who are interested in education in the 2 1 century.
-Heather Hoerle, Executive Director of the Secondary School Entrance Examination Committee.
"Four-dimensional education" is committed to making education more closely related to the drastic changes in society. Reminds me of Harold Benjamin's satirical masterpiece "Sword Tooth Course" written in 1939. The book fictionalizes a prehistoric society, and the story of "the fire scared away the fangs of the tiger" happened. Although the "tiger" in the story no longer exists, our course still retains this story. Learners in the 20th century are striding into 2 1 century. They have greatly promoted the accelerated change of the world. Sometimes, they learn to adapt, understand, be versatile, cooperate and be compassionate to some extent, but often outside the education system. In short, learners decide the fate of the course. The focus of this course is not the saber-toothed tiger in prehistoric society, but the laser focusing technology in today's era. By outlining a dynamic learning framework that adapts to and reflects success, four-dimensional education is a catalyst for lifelong learning and change. The quality of our next generation depends on the success of educational reform.
-Dr. David F.Clune, Chairman and CEO of the Education Archives Bureau (ERB).
Our present situation needs a new educational model. Four-dimensional education responded to this demand. It will provide powerful tools for educators to better help students meet the challenges of life and work in the 2 1 century.
-Ken Kay and Valerie greenhill, co-founders of ed leader 2 1, and co-authors of 2 1 Century Education Leaders' Guide: Seven Steps for Schools and School Districts.