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• 13 Oct 09
  

  Patti Porto

  blog 21centuryskills web2.0 oip

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  Lisa Thumann

  21stCenturyLearning resource blog 21stcenturyskills teaching students

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  Dave Truss

  Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.

  techintegrator schools2.0 2.0Skills newcurriculum newliteracy mycomments

  • They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education.

    
    

    But we don’t.

    
    

    At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck.

    
    

    We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in.

    
    

    So back to the teacher accessibility issue.

    
    

    How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?

• 24 Sep 09
  

  Darren Price

  21st century skills 21stcenturyskills 21st century learning

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  Sheila Trudgett

  education 21st century

• 23 Sep 09
  

  Phil Taylor

  skills 21stcenturyskills plan ictag

  • Our way has been to remind teachers that they have ALWAYS valued effective communication, collaboration, innovation, and thinking in their students. Only the media and the degree to which each is possible have changed.
• 22 Sep 09
  

  Rhona Polonsky

  21stCenturySkills research iste

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  Lesley Reilly

  21st century skills 21st century learning 21stcenturyskills

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  Sean Devine

  technology 21st Century

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  John Evans

  Is the term 21st Century out of date?

  21stcenturylearning skills pedagogy

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  MICDS LIBRARY

  with us and now its a matter of fitting their great work into our original framework. But the premise remains. Past models – the best they could be in their time – generally failed because teachers did not believe it was their job to teach technology.

  • with us and now its a matter of fitting their great work into our original framework. But the premise remains. Past models – the best they could be in their time – generally failed because teachers did not believe it was their job to teach technology.
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  Nancy Blair

  Emphasized the "skills" rather than the technology; explores tech supporting acquisition of "skills."

  21st century skills article

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  Barbara Reid

  21stCLearners elearning

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  Reuven Werber

  21stcentury 21stcenturyskills 21st-century edtech web2.0 tech

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  Barbara Lindsey

  21st century learning

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  Keri-Lee Beasley

  dharter blog 21stcenturyliteracy learning educators teacher

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