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- Recipes4Success on 2009-03-03
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Session 1: About 21st Century Learning (21st Century Learners) on 2009-03-02
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- What is meant by "21st Century Learning?
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- How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME on 2009-03-01
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME on 2009-03-01
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As school critic E.D. Hirsch Jr. points out in his book, The Knowledge Deficit,
kids need a substantial fund of information just to make sense of reading
materials beyond the grade -
school level. Without mastering the fundamental building blocks of math, science
or history, complex concepts are impossible. - 5 more annotations...
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME on 2009-03-01
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No. 1 was technology
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Exposure to world cultures was also an important trait cited by the executives
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME on 2009-03-01
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Thinking outside the box. Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get
outsourced or automated--"put an enormous premium on creative and innovative
skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos," says Marc Tucker, an
author of the skills-commission report and president of the National Center on
Education and the Economy. Traditionally that's been an American strength, but
schools have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of NCLB. Kids also
must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new
breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design and
technology, mathematics and art--"that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas
Friedman, the best-selling author of The World Is Flat. -
Becoming smarter about new sources of information. In an age of overflowing
information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what's coming
at them and distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. "It's important
that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act
on it," says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders
focused on upgrading American education. - 3 more annotations...
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century - TIME on 2009-03-01
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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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- CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News on 2009-02-24
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