Patrick Higgins on 2009-03-10
Is our job as teachers and administrators to produce workers?
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The Iowa Core Curriculum, particularly the aspects related to 21st century skills, is intended to get us where we need to go. Iowa citizens need to educate themselves about the Core and start asking tough questions about vision, development, implementation, funding, training, and support of their legislators, local school board members, and the Department of Education. Inaction is not an option, nor is tweaking the status quo, as both are losing strategies in a rapidly-changing digital, global economy.
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Instead, we must fundamentally realign the curricula and instruction that occurs within our schools in order to produce the workers and citizens that we need
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These so-called 21st century skills are those needed by Iowa graduates to be competitive in a global information economy:
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Why are these skills so important? Because the rise of digital information and communication technologies such as e-mail, instant messaging, videoconferencing, and the Internet have virtually eliminated the workplace barriers of geography and time. It is now about as easy to work with people halfway across the globe as it is with folks halfway across town. As a result, information, money, and ideas criss-cross the globe at dizzying speeds and work moves to the location of lowest cost or greatest expertise. This puts an extraordinary amount of pressure on the Western wage premium: why pay an American worker such a high salary when someone in another country will do the same work for less?
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Sarah HanawaldThe text of this blog entry is thoughtful, but not full of new info. However, there are some really startling graphs here about what students' futures look like.
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