This link has been bookmarked by 4 people . It was first bookmarked on 13 Feb 2008, by Lisa Hogan.
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02 Jul 08
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Whatever educators try to do, it never seems to be enough. And since schools have so many paymasters — it was hard enough when it was local, state and federal levels of government, but today the list
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27 May 08
Pat SineInteresting post about why 21st Century Skills and particularly the Partnership for 21st Century Skills can help us move forward in education.
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07 Mar 08
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13 Feb 08
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How do big new ideas unseat old ones that often are privileged only because they have been in place for a long time even though there’s no proof that they work.
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that Newton is agnostic on whether the changes are for the better or worse. Schools bombarded by so many external forces could offer a commentary on that!
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chools don’t always look like they’ve caught up to the opportunities and demands of a world that is very different from the one that existed when most current structure and practice were put in place for K-12 education
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aking the first steps seems much harder than taking no steps, especially when the penalties are so severe if a mistake is made.
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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created a framework which schools use in making good decisions about how they imagine the learning experiences our students should have to succeed in the ever changing world.
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focuses on outcomes — a set of robust and valuable skills — but also identifies the support systems that successful acquisition of these skills requires.
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standards, but go much further to assessment, curriculum and instruction, professional development, and the basic learning environment that helps all of this happen.
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guide post as it is a hitching post, and that strikes me as smart.
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it is a process that requires us to use the best of what we know at any given time, realizing that even our best solutions cannot work forever, yielding eventually to new ones.
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lmost impossible for any of us to imagine any other kind of education than the one we had.
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inkering toward Utopia” (in David Tyack’s great phrase), but we are so imprinted by our personal experiences, it is terrifying to give other possibilities serious consideration.
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