Education in 21st century can be revamped easily. But how? Why not start with what 21st century has got to offer? Why not take advantage of the new technologies and the new ways of communicating to begin with?
Websites, Wikis, Podcasts, Blogs are all part of this new way of communicating in the 21st century. How best we can blend these into 21st century education still depends on how strong the old roots are to establish new roots, new branches and new leaves. The concept of Circle of Learning (COL) is similar to Circle of Life. With the centuries of learnings as old roots COL establishes newer roots for 21st century intertwined in most wonderful and exciting ways. COL shifts the gears from mass education of 20th century to targeted education required for the 21st century by its unique method of simple yet basic ABCD quadrant learning.
COL is based one fundamental principle: New learning creates new life and new life creates new learning.
Starting from the concept of Sir Issac Newton’s Laws of Gravity which made us to understand the planetary motions to take us eventually to space, and from the famous Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity equations to relate energy and mass to power the entire world in new ways, we have come a long way in our understanding of what education means and learning means; and a long way from the ways in which we have learnt to shape the world for the future generations.
Through the COL model elaborates on the learning concepts for the 21st century in a much more meaningful way by taking a leaf out of these great learners and scholars of 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. COL will integrate learnings of earlier centuries with the 21st century learning tools and landscape to provide a new perspective on delivering education for the 21st century Gen M masses.
COL embraces FOUR learning quadrants. These four quadrants get their perspective from FOUR corners. My blogs will elaborate on the concept of quadrant learning on a regular basis to bring home a new meaning to the concept of learning for the 21st century. We need to be moving away from the delivery model of 20th century where education to masses was the prime focus to the delivery model for the 21st century where the targeted learning is of prime focus enabled by circle of learning.