Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Oct 09
  

  Frank in Mexico

  21centuryliteracies 21stcenturylearning 21stcenturyskills cookson

• 07 Sep 09
  

  Isabela Villas Boas

  Education in the 21st century

  • We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies
    propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great
    knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of
    trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
  • Learning requires stable, flexible cognitive frameworks and consistent forms of
    adaptive assessment.
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  • • A quick walk through the cultural landscape of the Internet suggests that "being
      online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,
      not to mention occasional weirdness.
    • There is a great deal of talk about teamwork today; the real basis of teamwork
      is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems
    • Organizing this new learning model is the work of the 21st century. Just as the
      industrial age developed a particular form of organizational life, the
      electronic age is developing models of organizational life that are more atomic
      in their structure than they are brick and mortar. When Einstein shocked the
      world by suggesting that energy is matter moving at twice the speed of light, he
      gave us a metaphor for our era.
    • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this
      great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue
      to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass
      education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes,
      and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th
      century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency.
      Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing
      regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth

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