Teenagers
About 250,000 years ago, homo sapiens became a species separate from their early hominid ancestors. About 100,000 years ago, we began to...
21st Century children and teenagers will live longer than any humans who have come before. They are healthier, wealthier, better-informed, and connected to the world. This is transformative, so I have been speaking and writing about growing up in the 21st century. One of the current projects is a book called Our Whole World in Their Hands (work-in-progress). The subtitle is 21st Century School & Our Global Future because we must think about learning in new ways, move beyond our 20th-century traditions, and pivot to a form of education that's consistent with the way they learn. The book ties many themes together: population migration, well-being education, what subjects students learn and why, ownership of digital rights, technology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, and more--all of these are fundamentals in 21st century learning.