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we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.
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workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures,
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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks.
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This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine
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whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy
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a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century.
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Today's economy demands
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21st century skills.
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Knowing more about the world.
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our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks
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national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the "achievement gap" between social classes.
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we're aiming too low
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testing--is the meager minimum
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Jay FoglemanArticle about need to enhance what is taught to Amercan students. Curricular reform within disciplines is not enough.
Educational_Issues_Future_of_Ed Educational_Issues_New_Literacies
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Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in
rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from
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Today's economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional
academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills
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Jon Ben-AsherThe world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."
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Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math--the focus of
so much No Child Left Behind (NCLB) testing--is the meager minimum. Scientific
and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Today's
economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic
disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Here's what they
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Knowing more about the world. Kids are global citizens now, even in
small-town America, and they must learn to act that way. Mike Eskew, CEO of UPS,
talks about needing workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign
cultures, conversant in different languages"--not exactly strong points in the
U.S., where fewer than half of high school students are enrolled in a
foreign-language class and where the social-studies curriculum tends to fixate
on U.S. history.
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Knowing more about the world. Kids are global citizens now, even in small-town
America, and they must learn to act that way. Mike Eskew, CEO of UPS, talks
about needing workers who are "global trade literate, sensitive to foreign
cultures, conversant in different languages"--not exactly strong points in the
U.S., where fewer than half of high school students are enrolled in a
foreign-language class and where the social-studies curriculum tends to fixate
on U.S. history
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There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip
Van Winkle
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This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now
the blackboards are green." -
American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of
change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks
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"We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."
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There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak: Rip
Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and is, of
course, utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, -
talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on
sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy
death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal
and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just
baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows
exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these
back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green." - 2 more annotations...
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21st century skills
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Knowing more about the world
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"This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."
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craig rolandThe idea of traditional school learning is a very antiquated one. Schools need to adjust their expectations in order to produce global learners. . .
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Eva KoumiAn excellent article on the importance of develop new, portable, life-long learning skills amongst students.
information literacy new literacy multi-literacy life-long learning critical thinking
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António TeixeiraArtigo na Time (de 2006) sobre o passado e o futuro das escolas.
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Neil CharletTIME Magazine Article
blog collaboration edtech education learning teaching technology web2.0
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Brian C. SmithThe world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy
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24 Oct 07
Claude AlmansiA yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
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Dave PowersA great article about bettering American schools by updating the methods
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Tom Hemingway"...whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English."
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Angela StevensGreat article in Time about how to educate students for the 21st century
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