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15 Jul 09

Education - Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions

  • Maybe worse than irrelevant. Maybe dangerous. The belief that "your" experience is relevant leads to a nightmare loop. Students who behave, and learn, most like their teachers do the best in classrooms. Teachers see this reflection as proof of their own competence - "The best students are just like me." And thus all who are "different" in any way - race, class, ability, temperament, preferences - are left out of the success story.
  • Mobile phones, computers everywhere, hypertext, social networking, collaborative cognition (from Wikipedia on up), Google, text-messaging, Twitter, audiobooks, digital texts, text-to-speech, speech recognition, flexible formatting - these are not "add ons" to the world of education, they are the world of education. This is how humans in this century talk, read, communicate, learn. And learning to use these technologies effectively, efficiently, and intelligently must be at the heart of our educational strategies.
06 Feb 09

Tony Wagner: Seven survival skills for the new economy - HRTownSquare.com

  • Here are the seven survival skills of which he spoke:

    --critical
    thinking/problem solving
    --collaboration/leading by influence
    --agility
    and adaptability
    --initiative and entrepreneurialism
    --effective oral and
    written communication
    --accessing and analyzing information
    --curiosity
    and imagination

    Wagner said there's one curriculum in today's high
    schools: test prep!
26 Jan 09

Tech giants vow to change global assessments

  • These skills include the ability to think critically and creatively, to work
    cooperatively, and to adapt to the evolving use of information and
    communications technology (ICT) in business and society.
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