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13 Oct 09

Is the term 21st Century out of date? | U Tech Tips

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.

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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?

27 Sep 09

Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind

And the price is this: facts learned in this way, and especially by rote, and especially at a younger age, take a direct route into the mind, and bypass a person's critical and reflective capacities, and indeed, become a part of those capacities in the future.

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The reason I pose these questions in particular is that, while it is necessary (and possible) to teach facts to people, it comes with a price. And the price is this: facts learned in this way, and especially by rote, and especially at a younger age, take a direct route into the mind, and bypass a person's critical and reflective capacities, and indeed, become a part of those capacities in the future.

When you teach children facts as facts, and when you do it through a process of study and drill, it doesn't occur to children to question whether or not those facts are true, or appropriate, or moral, or legal, or anything else. Rote learning is a short circuit into the brain. It's direct programming. People who study, and learn, that 2+2=4, know that 2+2=4, not because they understand the theory of mathematics, not because they have read Hilbert and understand formalism, or can refute Brouwer and reject intuitionism, but because they know (full stop) 2+2=4.
. There are more facts in the world than anyone could know
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- facts change
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- We need to be able to determine what is salient or important to ourselves and to others.
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- you need some mechansism to detect and reject false representations of facts
- comparing and assessing facts
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- basis for action
- we can create facts in the world
- we need the capacity to act
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- And what we discover when we think about it this way is that it's not simple whether or not we need facts that is important, but also, what format the facts are in that is equally important, if not more important.
- You need, in other words, need to acquire facts in a format appropriate to your knowledge system.
- 21st century skills are, in short, an operating system for the mind.
- They constitute the processes and capacities that make it possible for people to navigate a fact-filled landscape, a way to see, understand and acquire those facts in such a way as to be relevant and useful, and in the end, to be self-contained and autonomous agents capable of making their own decisions and directing their own lives, rather than people who need to learn ever larger piles of 'facts' in order to do even the most basic tasks.
- What we have learned - what we are understanding, uniquely, in the 21st century - is that the nature of facts is very different from anything we thought before:

28 Jun 09

21st Century Confusion

It's not about 21st C 'literacy', it is about ideas of being literate that have been around a long time. Good look at Literacy vs Skills.

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28 Apr 09

AEA 13 - www.scottmcleod.net

Great Resources from Scott McLeod, a lot to explore here!

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23 Feb 09

Remote Access: I'm Done with Edtech

Not about the tech or the tools, it's about the learning!

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06 Oct 08

Dangerously Irrelevant: Slide - The people in charge

"The people in charge of leading school organizations into the 21st century... often are the least knowledgeable about the 21st century.

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31 Aug 08

jackiegerstein » 21st Century Learning Intelligences

Skills such as global literacy, computer literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation have become critical in today’s increasingly interconnected workforce and society (eSchool News).

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Skills such as global literacy, computer literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation have become critical in today’s increasingly interconnected workforce and society (eSchool News).

26 Mar 08