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Jeff Johnson

The Rush for '21st-Century Skills' - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  • Jeff Johnson
     
    It wasn't the weightiest observation, but it connected theory with the real world, which is exactly what "21st-century skills" -- this year's educational buzz phrase -- is all about, and why Manassas is trying to make it the core of its curriculum. President-elect Barack Obama (D) called for a "21st-century education system" in naming his new education secretary last month. The phrase "21st-century skills" gets 232,000 hits on Google. Problem is, not everyone is sure what the phrase means.

Jeff Johnson

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections - 0 views

  • IECC is dedicated to helping teachers connect with other teachers to arrange
    intercultural email connections between their students. A new service,
    IECC-INTERGEN, helps teachers and their classrooms create intergenerational
    partnerships with volunteers who are over 50 years of age.


    Created in 1992 by three professors from St. Olaf College in Minnesota,
    IECC was one of the first services on the Web to facilitate international
    pen-pal exchanges between teachers and classrooms around the globe

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