This Slideshare presentation is based on Steve Griffith’s article “4 Dimensional Flipping: Setting the Stage for Learning Vital 21st Century Skills”, published on the Flipped Learning Network*(with permission)

How Flipped Learning fits into the Four Dimensional Education  Framework

of Educational Goals 

The 21st century is a period of rapid change.  

Why do children need an education? What is the purpose of education? In a rapidly changingworld, the curriculumhas been slow to change ...

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The purpose of school has to be to prepare students for the world of today … and the world of tomorrow. 

“Today, schools need to prepare students for more rapid economic and social change than ever before, for jobs that have not yet been created, to use technologies that have not yet been invented, and to solve social problems that we don’t yet know will arise” - Andreas Schleicher the Director of Education and Skills, OECD

Source: http://curriculumredesign.org/our-work/four-dimensional-21st-century-education-learning-competencies-future-2030/

In 2008, IBM surveyed 1500 company leaders in 80 countries and 33 industries, to determine what characteristics they need in their staff.  They identified two priorities; adaptability to change and creativity in generating new ideas.  They also found these two characteristics lacking in graduates.

(… and there is little reason to believe that this has improved

significantly in the 8 years since.)

HELP WANTED! Adaptability to Change & Creativity in Generating

New Ideas

Source: http://sirkenrobinson.com/creative-schools-the-grassroots-revolution-thats-transforming-education/

Introducing the Four-

Dimensional

Educational Framework

from The Center

for Curriculum RedesignSource: http://curriculumredesign.org/our-work/four-dimensional-21st-century-education-learning-competencies-future-2030/

The Center for Curriculum Redesign believes that schools are not consistently

and effectively teaching students the competencies they require to succeed in

the world of tomorrow.  They have proposed a move away from

the traditional knowledge-focused curriculum to

a four dimensional framework of educational goals.  

The intent of the framework is to “balance content knowledge and understanding with skills

that apply that knowledgeto the real world;

character qualities that build motivation,

resilience and social/ emotional intelligence; and

meta-learning strategies that help students become

reflective, self-directed and expert learners”

The knowledge dimension is “what we know and understand.”  Because of the crowding of the curriculum and the depreciating relevance of some traditional content and subjects, traditional subjects need to be curated for relevance and meta-concepts identified.   

The Evolving “Knowledge Dimension”

With ready access to information on the Internet, the need to cover all of the

content in a particular subject is no longer necessary. Instead, the CCR recommends

focusing on understanding the key aspects, or the meta-concepts and big picture

processes of the discipline, in a meaningful way. 

This means the 21st-century concepts and competencies that are over-arching and are relevant

across disciplines.  It is the knowledge that we want to stick with

students after school where it can be built on with further study or applied in life and the workforce

regardless of the field.

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An example of a meta-concept could be feedback loops that have application in robotics, programming and homeostasis.

An example of processes that have application across

disciplines could be generating and testing

hypotheses.

HypothesisHypothesis

The Evolving “Knowledge Dimension”

Flipped learning continues to be very relevant in the knowledge dimension but perhaps with some minor tweaking for

some flipped educators. 

Instead of generating a raft of

videos for all the detailed

content,flipped

educators should

focus their videos on

the key meta-concepts and processes and make the

connections with other disciplines more explicit.

The Evolving “Knowledge Dimension” and Flipped Learning

A major advantage of flipped learning is that students interact with new content in their

individual learning space so that more class time can be spent practicing and deepening the

knowledge.  Effective flipped learning includes meaningful and authentic learning experiences to practice procedural knowledge and deepen declarative knowledge.

The Evolving “Knowledge Dimension” and Flipped Learning

The themes provided in Four-Dimensional Education represent important strands that are relevant across many traditional and modern disciplines. 

These themes include the following:• Global• Environmental• Information & Digital Literacies• Design Thinking

… these themes are to be embedded across disciplines as appropriate. 

The class time saved by flipped

learning affords the flip educator with

precious class time to embed these important cross-

curricular themes.

The skills dimension is “what we do with what we know”. The CCR has focused on four skills that are required to prepare students for the complexity of

life and work in the 21st Century.  These “eduployment” skills are in high demand by employers:

• Communication• Collaboration• Critical thinking• Creativity  

The Skills Dimension

Knowledge and skills need to develop together.  We always learn by learning something. 

The knowledge “becomes the source of creativity, the subject of critical thought and communication, and

the impetus for collaboration”.  So the meta-concepts and processes are the context

around which the 21st-century skills are applied. 

The Skills Dimension

Project-based learning, problem-based learning, inquiry-based learning and constructivism are all active learning pedagogies that authentically construct knowledge and skills by focusing on solving problems. Instead of front-loading the content, the new concepts and processes are the support to solve the problems and are the context for developing 21st century skills.

The Skills Dimension

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Character education is “how we behave and engage in the world.” It is about developing values and beliefs and using them to guidedecisions and choices.  The CCR has identified six character qualities:

• Mindfulness• Curiosity• Courage• Resilience• Ethics• Leadership 

The Character Dimension

Flipped mastery fits in perfectly with developing some of these character traits. Flipped mastery is a student-centered pedagogy where students set individual goals and manage their learning. Students alternate between interacting with new knowledge via video and practicing and deepening their knowledge to work towards the mastery of a topic before they move on to the next topic. Jonbergmann.com provides lots of great

flipped mastery resources

The Character Dimension

Sal Khan has observed that through flipped mastery students demonstrate deeper learning of concepts, and students build important character traits such as grit and perseverance and they take agency over their learning.  

The Character Dimension

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sal_Khan

The meta-learning dimension is about thinking about thinking. Meta-learning involves students setting goals, reflecting on their learning with respect to the goals and then adapting their learning behaviors.  This process of self-reflection helps students internalizea growth mindset. 

The Meta-Learning Dimension

The Meta-Learning Dimension

In the flipped classroom, the teacher can spend time with every student, in every class, every day.  Conversations with students allow the teacher to identify closed mind set language like ”I don’t have a math brain” or “I can’t do this”. This presents an opportunity to challenge the student to reflect and reframe their mindset.

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Flipped Learning is a Powerful Opportunity for a Much Needed Change

There are potentially many opportunities to

incorporate flipped learning

into the Four Dimensional Education

framework.

Flipped learning done well, can enhance deep learning and

develop students who are versatile,

reflective, self-directed and self-

reliant.Provided that flipped learners are guided by the “why” of education,

flipped learning can be an important “how” tool to address the “what” of education outlined in the Four Dimensional Education framework.

A quote from Einstein states that “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.  

The Four Dimensional Education Framework provides a comprehensive tool to navigate the priorities for 21st century education.  “While I wait for educational reforms to be rolled

out, I feel empowered as a teacher-designer to design change from the ground up.” – Steve

Griffiths 

Access the full original article at:

http://flippedlearning.org/4-dimensional-flip