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components, are shaped much more by the individual's environment and stimuli, and
therefore can and should be developed. Without belittling knowledge, this new method
links the use of knowledge with the use of thinking to create a powerful form of learning
in which it is not only important to know, but it is vital to ask: What we can do or create with
what we now know? What conclusions can we draw? And how can we connect the new with
something already learned?
These two photographs depict the contrast between traditional and 21st century education.
Merely watching these scenes generate many questions.
The projects assigned the day to day were In the 21st century educational model proposed
separated by subject; such as the math hour.
Edu1st.VESS, projects are designed to cover
multiple areas, so that students can find the
connections among the different subjects in
life.