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Is the term 21st Century out of date?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?
Durff's Blog: Do You Enable Your Students to Fly?
Project Based Learning across the curriculum.
Doing away with individual subjects and teaching integrating real-life experiences with technology seamlessly.
Rick’s Café Canadien » Blog Archive » Siemens interview on connectivism
George Siemens joined me for an interview about Connectivism, a theory about learning that draws on network theory, social networking, and social constructivism among other things. This interview discusses what connectivism is and where it came from, as well as its unique features and applications to education.
Harnessing our advantage | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
...it highlights some of the tools that students used to empower their own learning.
And that brings us back to the idea of leadership. We need to be empowered learners if we want to lead other learners. We need to create an environment that fosters doing new things in new ways, like many cutting edge organizations do.
“You can’t go back now, can you?” | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
“You can’t go back now, can you?”
“What?”
“You could never be able to go back to teaching without technology, could you?
“No.”
“I speak digital” :: Digital Exposure | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Basically this is about ‘exposure to’ and ‘integration with’ digital technology at a young age as opposed to ‘adaptation to’ digital technology later on in life.
The Clever Sheep: Minimally Invasive Education
let's be minimally invasive in allowing the learning to happen, but maximally invasive in ensuring that the problems we present to learners are relevant, compelling and appetizing.
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Far be it for me to suggest that we abandon teaching and leave students to their own devices. Rather, let's be minimally invasive in allowing the learning to happen, but maximally invasive in ensuring that the problems we present to learners are relevant, compelling and appetizing.
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