ABSTRACT
The backdrop to 21st-century education is our endangered environment. Success in education today is about identity, it is about agency and it is about purpose. It is about building curiosity opening hearts, and it is about courage, mobilising our cognitive, social and emotional resources to take action. In the past, schools were technological islands, with technology often limited to supporting and conserving existing practices, and students outpacing schools in their adoption of technology. Now schools need to use the potential of technologies to liberate learning from past conventions and connect learners in new and powerful ways, with sources of knowledge, with innovative applications and with one another. And education for living together in an interconnected world goes beyond the four walls of schools. On average across OECD countries, 53% of students reported having contact with people from other countries in their school, 54% in their family, 38% in their neighbourhood and 63% in their circle of friends.
