Enlightened Parenthood

8/6/2019 Enlightened Parenthood

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En lig htenedP arentho od

A 21st Century Learning Readiness Check

Why putting your kids in agood school is not good enough


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In the age of the industrial revolutio

needed to learn the 3Rs and acquirbasic cognitive skills and they wset for life...


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Education was mostly based onBehaviourist Learning Theory


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In the 20th century people needed a of knowledge and basic cognitive sk

ensured lifelong employment..Education in the 20th century emph

Learn to Earn


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Education was influenced byCognitivist Learning Theory


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21st century offers the opportunitydiscover your interests, learn mo

about them and pursue yourcalling in life...

One can yearn to learn... and ear


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Current Influences

- Constructivist Learning Theory


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Current Influences

- Humanist Learning Theory


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Current Influences - Social Learning Theory


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The challenge is to keep pace with

exploding knowledge and comp


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Interdependence with fellow human

species and environment adds to the


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Most important, for true happiness, oto have a life pursuit that goes beyo

self-interest and adds meaning to


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In the 21st century you can...


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Empower and enable your children totheir own meaningful life philos

andlearn the abilities to pursue it wi

conviction and compassion


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For this, as a parent, you needto make the most of the

Second Strand of Education


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What is the

Second Strand of Education?


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The first strand is formal education whicfocuses on imparting a stockpile of kno

and basic cognitive skills Formal

Education (Stockpile of Knowledge and basic Cognitive

skills)


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Connection-centricOnline Learning- Learners - Mentors - Content - Conversation

Second Strand of Education constituHigher Cognitive skills, Self-Learning

Pursuit of Passion with Compassion... supp

Formal Education

Higher Cognitive skills, Self-Learning,Pursuit of Passion


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What is the importance of

Second Strand of Education?


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The 21st

Century Context


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To survive and thrive in the 21 st century

Knowledgeexplosion

learn to self-learn and keep reinventing yourself

Learn toSelf-Learn


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21st Century

What you know


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21st Century

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What you know


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G A P !

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What you know


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Fill the gap by using knowledge of

your network / connections

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21st Century

W h a t y o u n

e e d t o k

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What you know


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Fill the gap by using knowledge of your network /connections

W h a t yo u n e e

d t o k n o w

What you know

Second Strand of Education

Learning facilitated byOnline Networks

Need for differentCognitive skills, Self-LePursuit of Passion with C


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Traits that become critical in

todays context include...


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- Character

- Pursuit of passion, with compassion- Pursuit of wisdom and tranquility of spirit

- Fostering lifelong yearning for learning- Epistemological Modesty(awareness of own ignorance)

- Dialectical Bootstrapping(internal conversation between reason and emotion)


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As a parent, theLearner Dispositions you

need to foster in your children incl


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- Curiosity, inquisitiveness, a yearning to- Imagination, creativity, deep & indepen

thinking- Self-aware, self-disciplined, determinedpersevering

- Loves to play and tinker, with ideas and


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- Emotionally mature (understands emotiodialogue between reason and emotion

- Risk taker, Problem Solver, Decision M- Empathetic collaborator, multi-sensorycommunicator

- Meta-cognition (thinks about own think


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Dispositions you need to have as aparent...


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- Facilitate your children construct meanithrough hypothesis, discovery, experimeand conversation

- Encourage discovery of passion and pur- Curator and filter good learning materia

- Co-creators and collaborators


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- Coach, guide, mentor(a friend, philosopher and gu- Deeply caring- Infectiously enthusiastic- Good role-model (vis-a-vis desired studedispositions)

o able to demonstrate that there is fun in deep learniand hard work


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One Caution!


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From 99 c to 1 c we cannotanticipate what will happen at 0 c

From 1 c to 99 c we cannotanticipate what will happe c

While in the midst of a Phase Change itdifficult to predict what the future will


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We are NOW in the midst of a Phase Cwe do not know what the future will h

CurrentPhase Change

The amount of knowledgein the world has doubledin the past 10 years and isdoubling every 18 months

- ASTD

Language

Writing

Printing Press

Internet


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We are currently preparing students for jobs that dont yet exist... usingtechnologies that havent yet beeninvented... in order to solve problems wedont even know are problems yet.

Richard Riley, Secretary of EducaKonunder President Clinton


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Thus, these ideas about enlightenparenting will need to evolve

as the context changes


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Also, bigger issues are afoot...


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We have the ability to

Create a Better World or breed...


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We can bridge or further widen th

divides and inequalities...

Have Not


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We can make life simple or add to co


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Utopia A DividedWor l d

We are Homo Sapiens Sapiens...the species that knows, they know

The choice will be


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- The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Character and Achievement - David Brooks

- A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers wFuture - Daniel H. Pink

- The Life-Smart Kid - Lawerence J Greene

Good Reads


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