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Following the lead of David Warlick and a discussion prompted by Will Richardson: Can we organize a set of skills that students need in order to inherit the future?
From Will at Weblogg-ed.com
Our kids’ futures will require them to be:
From Sylvia Martinez:
"The current curriculum is information-centric because we still believe that if students just learn a basic set of facts, it will be good for them and society in general. If we simply replace paper textbooks and tests for online, hypertextual, multimedia versions, we have nothing to celebrate. We’ve simply replaced the delivery and presentation mechanisms."
From Greg Cruey (guest blogger at Dangerously Irrelevant)
"The 21st Century Learning Initiative has more to do with applying a Constructivist approach to learning to the pedagogy of the classroom than it has to do with technology. If I had to describe the 21st Century Learning Initiative, I would phrase it something like this: It is the conceptual space where modern brain research, Constructivist learning theory, school reform, and the demands of the 21st Century workplace come together."
From Darren Draper, in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching; a video titled "Pay Attention." Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?
From Will at Weblogg-ed.com
Our kids’ futures will require them to be:
- Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.”
- More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information.
- More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world.
- Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids.
- More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically.
- Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice.
- More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world.
- Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
From Sylvia Martinez:
"The current curriculum is information-centric because we still believe that if students just learn a basic set of facts, it will be good for them and society in general. If we simply replace paper textbooks and tests for online, hypertextual, multimedia versions, we have nothing to celebrate. We’ve simply replaced the delivery and presentation mechanisms."
From Greg Cruey (guest blogger at Dangerously Irrelevant)
"The 21st Century Learning Initiative has more to do with applying a Constructivist approach to learning to the pedagogy of the classroom than it has to do with technology. If I had to describe the 21st Century Learning Initiative, I would phrase it something like this: It is the conceptual space where modern brain research, Constructivist learning theory, school reform, and the demands of the 21st Century workplace come together."
From Darren Draper, in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching; a video titled "Pay Attention." Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?
