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  • Literacy in the 21st Century is not based on do you know it- rather, can you find it, analyze it, adapt it, and synthesize it?
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  • John Norton says we should be asking ourselves..."What skills and qualities of mind do we want our graduates to  have?" Related question: "How do we assess whether students are  acquiring these skills and qualities of mind?"

  • The new assessments will  have to do the following:

      

    ** Be largely performance-based. We need to  know how students apply
    content knowledge to critical-thinking,  problem-solving, and
    analytical tasks throughout their education, so that we  can help them
    hone this ability and come to understand that successful  learning is
    as much about the process as it is about facts and  figures.

      

    ** Make students' thinking visible. The assessments should  reveal the
    kinds of conceptual strategies a student uses to solve a  problem.

      

    ** Generate data that can be acted upon. Teachers need to be  able to
    understand what the assessment reveals about students' thinking. And  
    school administrators, policymakers, and teachers need to be able to
    use  this assessment information to determine how to create better
    opportunities  for students.

      

    ** Build capacity in both teachers and students.  Assessments should
    provide frequent opportunity for feedback and revision,  so that both
    teachers and students learn from the process.

      

    ** Be part  of a comprehensive and well-aligned continuum. Assessment
    should be an  ongoing process that is well-aligned to the target
    concepts, or core ideas,  reflected in the standards.

      
  • I do not think teachers have a choice anymore, in fact I would go so far to say we have a moral responsibility of making sure all children are able to master these skills in the safety net of our classrooms. Every student is already living in a Flat World and to prepare them for their world of work, not ours, we need to help them understand how to use the tools to be competitive and collaborative. Unlike us, they need to be skilled at using tools to collaborate across the planet to compete with global markets.
  • Literacy in the 21st Century is not based on do you know it- rather, can you find it, analyze it, adapt it, and synthesize it? John Tao says as we move out of the information age into this new era of creativity an individual’s value will not be based on what he knows, but what he can create.
  • In their future, our students will be working with teams in virtual spaces that they have never met, on goals that are abstract. They need to understand how to adapt and create.
  • The goal of School 2.0 is not to do away with content, but to make sure the outcomes in that content are immersed in 21st Century skills.
  • We also need to focus on pre-service learning in the development in 21st Century skills. Ken felt that it is appalling that colleges of education are not at the front of this 21st Century skills movement. Teacher preparation programs should be embedding 21st Century skills with their content courses, modeling 21st skills in their instruction and delivery, and helping preservice teachers use Web 2.0 tools to collaborate and build community so that they can get the support they need outside of the classroom once they are on their own. Teachers should share best practice first with each other and then beyond their own schools through virtual learning communities.

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• 18 Sep 08
  

  Howie DiBlasi

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• 29 May 08
  

  Roger Sevilla

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• 01 Mar 08
  

  Ginny Washburne

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• 31 Jan 08
  

  MizzG Gibson

  • 21st Century Assessment

     

     

     

    John Norton (TLN), Cathy  Gassenheimer (ABPC)  and I were discussing 21st Century assessment the other day. I shared with  them the assessments that Ken Kay highlighted during his presentation at  Edustat. I'll copy the post below. John Norton says we should be asking  ourselves..."What skills and qualities of mind do we want our graduates to  have?" Related question: "How do we assess whether students are acquiring these  skills and qualities of mind?"

     

    Reading  the recent essay on 21st Century assessment published as an  EdWeek op-ed  a few weeks ago... which essentially makes the case that we are assessing  kids for the wrong skills. The essay is written by a team of folks involved with  the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

     

    The new assessments will have to do the following:

     

    ** Be largely performance-based. We need to know how students apply  
    content knowledge to critical-thinking, problem-solving, and
    analytical  tasks throughout their education, so that we can help them
    

  • Ken told us that the amount of information is doubling every 24 months and  that by 2020 the amount of information will double in every 72 days. What this  means is content memorization will simply not work anymore. It is currently  impossible; especially at the rate knowledge is changing, to master it all. And  even if you did, the content that you learn in your freshman year of college  would be outdated by the time you graduate. Literacy in the 21st Century is not  based on do you know it- rather, can you find it, analyze it, adapt it, and  synthesize it? John Tao says as we move out of the information age into this new  era of creativity an individual’s value will not be based on what he knows, but  what he can create.

     

    What Do We Need to Teach?
    We also need to teach students  adaptive expertise. They need to not only be self-directed but have the ability  to embrace ambiguity. In their future, our students will be working with teams  in virtual spaces that they have never met, on goals that are abstract. They  need to understand how to adapt and create. In fact, it is a tough call even  trying to predict what they will need as for the first time in educational  history we are preparing students for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet.  What skills do kids need now? They need the ability to redefine themselves and  the way they do their work. They need critical thinking skills, self defense  tools that will help them redefine the value of the enterprise in which they  find themselves.
• 17 Jan 08
  

  Ann Baum (Johnston)

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  Dave Waltman

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  David Jakes

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