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11 Oct 09

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Just Call Them Skills

So here is what I suggest. Lets drop the "21st Century" and just focus on skills. Using that term makes it sound like what we are doing is cutting edge, new and different. To be honest. there shouldn't be anything cutting edge with what we are doing in education. When a district gives all its students laptops they should be seen as behind the times and not "leading the charge to '21st Century Skills'". When a teacher uses social media in their classroom it should be seen as "it's about time." Rather than keep talking about what skills we are talking about we need to embrace the tools and applications that students are using outside of school and bring them into our classrooms. There isn't anything "21st Century" about that. Its just what we need to be doing!

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  • Here we are in 2009 and we are still talking about and worried about "21st Century Skills." I hate to break it to some, but we are 9 years in to the 21st Century.
  • In the U.S. the majority of these "21st Century" students are being taught with 18th Century methods.
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 4 | Fast Company

  • What WGU is doing is using the Internet to disaggregate the various functions of teaching: the "sage on the stage" conveyor of information, the cheerleader and helpmate, and the evaluator.
  • surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company

  • "The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there."
  • erreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest.
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eBistro Menu of Modules

A very interesting site to promote self-paced learning of Web 2.0 technologies for educators! Very creative and well structured.

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