# Blog ## About GEII's Blog GEII's blog is about learning and teaching in the 21st century. We encourage you to comment on posts because we believe learning and teaching happen, in part, through exchanges of ideas. Please note that the views expressed on this blog represent the views of the named authors, not necessarily those of the Global Education Innovation Initiative or the Harvard Graduate School of Education. [### 21st Century Teaching and Learning in Action ](/blog/21st-century-teaching-and-learning-action) October 11, 2016 Our purpose and method for analyzing 50 organizations globally that teach 21 st century competencies by Connie K. Chung Purpose - Why we undertook this project: To identify and build a virtual network of education stakeholders committed to the kind of... [### Learning to Change the World ](/blog/learning-change-world) August 13, 2016 By Connie K. Chung Portions of the essay below was adapted and recently published in the book, Empowering Global Citizens, by Reimers, Chopra, Chung, Higdon, and O'Donnell Researchers have noted that traditional global citizenship education (GCE)... [### Reflections from Qatar about Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century ](/blog/reflections-qatar-about-teaching-and-learning-21st-century) July 18, 2016 By Seungah Lee In my current role as Head of Alumni and Impact at Teach For Qatarwith Teach For Qatar (TFQ), I constantly think about the following: What is the education that we want our students to receive, and how do we deliver that education through... [### Letters from Singapore: 4 C's for Massachusetts - Clarity, Commitment, Coherence, Capacity ](/blog/letters-singapore-4-cs-massachusetts-clarity-commitment-coherence-capacity) May 23, 2016 By Fernando Reimers, E.B. O'Donnell, Lisa Battaglino, Connie K. Chung, Mitalene Fletcher, David Harris, Joey Lee, Vanessa Lipschitz, David Lussier, Christine McCormick, Megan O’Keefe, Paul F. Toner, Eleonora Villegas-Reimers You can download the rest of... [### Letter from Singapore - A Systemic and Systematic Approach to Teaching and Learning: Playing the Long Game in Education ](/blog/letter-singapore-systemic-and-systamatic-approach-teaching-and-learning-playing-long-game) May 11, 2016 by Connie K. Chung In October 2015, I visited Singapore with colleagues from Massachusetts who are leaders of universities, foundations, research organizations, and nonprofits working in education. We focused on learning about Singapore’s education system... [### Teaching and Learning in the Twenty-First Century ](/blog/teaching-and-learning-twenty-first-century) April 14, 2016 In the book-turned-movie The Martian, Matt Damon plays Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars and then is later rescued. Viral blog posts have suggested that had this really happened, it would have taken about $200 billion to rescue him. What... [### Findings from Teaching and Learning in the Twenty-First Century ](/blog/findings-teaching-and-learning-twenty-first-century) March 18, 2016 Our study draws three broad conclusions: 1. The six countries studied – Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States – all recognized that educational goals for all students needed to be broadened. They designed new curricular frameworks... [### What Students Really Need to Thrive in the 21st Century ](/blog/what-students-really-need-thrive-21st-century) March 14, 2016 Discussions about how to prepare students to thrive in the 21 st century highlight the need to acquire key competencies beyond the basics, such as digital, civic, self-knowledge and interpersonal competencies, among others. While the phrase “21 st century... [### 21st Century Education: 5 Lessons from China ](/blog/21st-century-education-5-lessons-china) April 28, 2014 by Catherine Yan Wang, National Institute of Educational Sciences China has redesigned its education system since embarking on opening up the country and engaging in reforms in the late 1970s. The journey of change started from an ethos of “Orientation... [### Assessing 21st century learning and teaching? ](/blog/assessing-21st-century-learning-and-teaching) February 14, 2014 The Program for International Student Assessmet (PISA) Math scores from 2012 were released in December 2013, ranking students from Asian countries at the top of the list, with Finland being the sole non-Asian country included in the list of top performers...