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Eden Housing Digital Connectors Program
Profile of program from CA Emerging Technology Fund. Describes growth of program and some evaluation information.
Measuring 21st-century skills
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collection of stories from our archives, along with other relevant resources from around the web
The Power of Educational Technology: 9 Common Principles for 21st Century Schools
"based on Ted Sizer's Common Principles for the Coalition of Essential Schools. I thought it was worth reviving here."
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I also think that the tricky bit is moving from the "what"'s you mention to lists to the "how".
Any chance of a list of how 21st C tools can help these 21st C (and all time) skills?
School Change Consulting - Home
Quite a few good resources including key ones on 21st century skills and recommendations for leaders to strengthen instruction.
Mobile Learning Institute
The Mobile Learning Institute’s film series “A 21st Century Education” profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
Thinking Critically
From University of Victoria - Counselling Services, provides a nice, short "how to" piece aimed at university students.
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To be able to think critically about a topic, you must have something to think
about.
Math Without Tears: Why memorize facts?
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"For all content areas, practice allows students
to achieve automaticity of basic skills -- the fast, accurate and effortless
processing of content information -- which
frees up working memory for more complex aspects of problem solving," the report
said.
Reply to Donna | Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile
Some interesting ideas on information literacy, role of teachers, all from a "rhetoritician's" point of view.
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- But once you've looked up the genus of a poison dart frog, what good does that do if you don't remember it? Also, how to you relate this piece of information to something else if you have to look up each fact on Google because you have memorized nothing? - on 2009-07-26
Education in the 21st Century
A series of reports that include data from the SpeakUp Survey, which shed light on issues related to learning and leading in K-12 education.
Teaching students 21st-century skills - The Boston Globe
Highlighted in ASCD Smart Brief 11/20.
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