Sarah Hanawald's List: 21stCentury

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  • This video is pretty basic, but it does seem to show some freedom from a 45 minute period schedule that offers more possibilites for Project based learning.
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• evolutionary change
• tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.

  • Is this an overstatement designed to grab attention? Or is it already happening?
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• iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

  • http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061340332/?tag=yahhyd-20&hvadid=42998415511&ref=pd_sl_340mdkxi8o_b
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• digital natives

  • arghh. I hate this term!
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• neglecting human contact skills and losing the ability to read emotional expressions and body language

  • We've been neglecting this even prior to the 21st century and technology pushes.
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• current major educational reforms call for extensive, meaningful teacher collaboration.
• collegiality breaks the isolation of the classroom and brings career rewards and daily satisfactions. It avoids end-of-year burn-out and stimulates enthusiasm. Instead of grasping for the single dramatic event or the special achievements of a few children as the main source of pride, teachers are more able to detect and celebrate a pattern of accomplishments within and across classrooms (Little, 1987, p. 497).
• The complexities introduced by a new curriculum or by the need to refine an existing curriculum are challenging. Teacher teamwork makes these complex tasks more manageable, stimulates new ideas, and promotes coherence in a school's curriculum and instruction.
• teacher collaboration is rare
• school faculty is an assemblage of entrepreneurial individuals. Teachers see each other in odd moments before the school day begins, between periods, at lunch, and in occasional after-school meetings.
• Training and assistance
• o observe and experience hands-on activities in each others' classes
• small groups of two to six teachers are better than larger groups
• it is fragile
• When teachers work as colleagues, it produces greater coherence and integration to the daily work of teaching. Further, it equips individual teachers, groups of teachers, and their schools for steady improvement. In short, it helps to organize the school as an environment for learning to teach.
• joint action cannot occur where it is impossible or prohibitively costly in organizational, political, or personal terms

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• The retail industry and service professions need entry-level employees who understand the world beyond our shores, can communicate in writing and manipulate databases.
• Our high schools produce graduates who do not write well enough, have limited reasoning skills, are unable to use the tools of mathematics and whose command of science is far inferior to that of their counterparts in other nations.

• Social networking websites are changing children's brains because they make   young people more self-centred
• creating a generation of children who demand instant gratification
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• in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf,"
• high computer use among young people and the rising rates of autism.

  • Symptoms of autism typically appear by age 3.
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