Throughout history, stakeholder communities have asked what skills and competencies children need to fit into the larger society and how to best cultivate those skills; indeed, various societies have tailored education to the demands of each new age. More recently, the 20th century focused on universal schooling which prioritized core competencies such as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Our current technologically dependent world, global crises, and the changes in the world of work, require educators to prepare children for a world of rapid change in technology, increasing interconnectedness, and new forms employment. In today’s age of Google for example, no longer is the focus on mastering content knowledge via memorization sufficient, for children to thrive in today’s fast changing world, they are required to acquire a breadth of skills rooted in academic competencies such as literacy, numeracy, and science, but also including such things as teamwork, critical thinking, communication, persistence, and creativity.
