Lifelong Learning

Our traditional views on learning and work are constantly being challenged. Today, people face the reality of changing not only jobs, but also careers several times in their working lives. Upgrading and expanding skills - in the workplace, in colleges and universities, in community courses and in their homes - will be the keys to keeping pace in a rapidly changing global marketplace.

Lifelong learning ranges from the most highly formal and structured educational activities to the most informal explorations of understanding. It encompasses many different levels, purposes, contents, outcomes and motives for learning. It encompasses a great variety of learning styles and approaches.

Lifelong learning involves every life experience. From upgrading work skills, preparing for a new career, developing a hobby or enriching your personal life, lifelong learning is a process that never ends.

It is a self-directed process that continues long after a person walks out of school. It’s about building upon life experiences so that they can be applied in a meaningful way to a future direction of your life.

IT, lifelong learning and your child

As children enter the classrooms of tomorrow, traditional learning will be replaced by new technology platforms. The challenge will be not only to learn how to take advantage of the cutting edge technologies, but also to ensure their learning is in line with their interests, aptitudes and skills. The student of tomorrow will need to be more self-directed in their learning to succeed in the world of work.

How can you help them?

• Encourage your child to take charge of and responsibility for their learning.
• Allow your child to experience different styles of learning.
• Create innovative ways of learning that allow them to explore themselves and their interests.
• Encourage all possible avenues of learning.
• Assist your child in developing a strategy for planning to learn.

For more information: http://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/