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TeachPaperless: 21st Century Skills: My Personal Mission Statement

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Education for the 21st Century: Balancing Content Knowledge with Skills | Britannica Blog

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Common Core Critiques '21st Century Skills' (and the Partnership Responds) - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

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Tuttle SVC: What's Driving "21st Century Skills?"

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Critiques of pedagogy implied or suggested as a result of these standards are valid, but beside the point. The community, including business, sets the standard. It is the responsibility of schools to figure out ways of meeting them. How else is it supposed to work?

White Collars Turn Blue - The New York Times

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Flawed Assumptions Undergird the Program at the Partnership for 21st-Century Skills | Britannica Blog

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The Partnership for 19th Century Skills

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Just about anything one likes can be presented as a component of
"21st-century" schooling. It's like "new and improved" except that here we're selling books and conferences instead of dessert toppings and floor
waxes. The appropriate response to this use, I believe, is either to roll your eyes or to point out that this particular emperor is parading around
in his birthday suit.
Second, to invoke the current century is sometimes meant to suggest an economic justification (and direction) for schooling
rather than a focus on what kids need. Notice how often terms like "competitiveness" and "global economy" tend to accompany "21st century skills."
The appropriate response here is alarm and active resistance, for reasons I tried to explain in
this article.
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- A fair number of educators are using "21st-century skills" to refer to relatively sophisticated intellectual activity -
  the sort that includes critical thinking, creativity, and learning about ideas "in a context and for a purpose" (as I like to say). Notice that
  this instructional agenda has two separate implications: It favors higher-order skills as opposed to low-level skills, and it emphasizes the importance
  of skills -- ways of learning and thinking -- as opposed to facts.
- In his 1941 book Escape From Freedom, meanwhile, the psychoanalyst and
  social critic Erich Fromm wrote: "The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality.
  Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts
  so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but 'information' alone
  can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it."
- this third meaning of "21st-century," the only one that's actually kind of progressive, is the one that's come under a withering and apparently
  coordinated attack from the "core knowledge" contingent.
- This approach to education is worth endorsing only if we are very clear that the reason for helping kids to think deeply and critically, to evaluate and
  apply knowledge, is because these capacities will enrich their lives and contribute to the common good in a democratic society. Not because it will
  outfit them with skills that will be useful to the corporations where they may eventually work, thereby allowing one company -- or country - to triumph
  over another.
- In other words, apart from the means by which we educate (facts or skills, basic or advanced), we have to think about the ends.
  Even if there really were something new about 21st-century schooling, fostering "competitiveness in a global economy" is a wretched rationale for
  providing it. And that will continue to be true even when the next century rolls around.

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead

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15 Nov 09

White Collars Turn Blue - The New York Times

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28 Oct 09

YouTube - A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Video that includes some weird stuff about being scared about China.

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24 Oct 09

Critical thinking? You need knowledge - The Boston Globe

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