The skills are not new (with the exception of some of the Digital Literacy skills), but for centuries have been offered to only the privileged and gifted students. Yet all students need these skills to succeed.
Q & A on 21st Century Skills « 21st Century Skills | Blog - 1 views
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Confucius recognized the need for learning by doing, quoted as: “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand”.
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- Context – Real-world learning
- Caring – Intrinsic motivation
- Construction – Mental & virtual model-building
- Competence – Multiple pathways to expertise
- Community – Learning socially in groups & teams
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100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning | Online School - 0 views
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100 blog posts speculating on the future of learning.
Alberta education vision - 0 views
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what is school? what should school be? why the factory model?
Weblogg-ed - 0 views
As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers' science lectures.
Down the road, at Cienega High School, students who own laptops can register for "digital sections" of several English, history and science classes. And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create - and share - lessons that incorporate their own PowerPoint presentations, along with videos and research materials they find by sifting through reliable Internet sites.
Conversation Agent: Da Vinci was a Change Agent, Are You? - 0 views
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Leonardo da Vinci was a change agent. You probably know it already, it's worth repeating. At the time of birth, you are endowed with the same potential he had. Today, we need more than genius to make things happen though.
Ecofont | less is more - 0 views
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Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.
Unclutterer: Daily tips on how to organize your home and office. - 1 views
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Eliminate the clutter with Unclutterer, the blog about getting and staying organized.
Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy - 0 views
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Will the transhuman technologies that our accelerating future promises enable us to increase our empathy to others? Or will their use decrease our ability to understand 'the other' that exists outside our own selves, families, communities and cultures? As the world grows smaller and more connected, humans will grow ever more divergent because of their possession - or not - of a multitude of transhuman technologies, and so the role of empathy grows larger and more important than ever. In theory, sensory/media input stimulates mirror neurons, which enable empathy.Practically, empathy is created through storytelling, which is not only the most successful remote means of creating social empathy, but has actually been the engine of social/cultural liberalization and change. I will demonstrate both the positive and negative affects on empathy through the increasing reliance we have on transhuman media technologies and how I believe storytelling is the key to empathy creation.
All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views
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Every Monday, All Things Considered will air its new series called All Tech Considered to explore the sometimes daunting - always changing - world of technology. Are you baffled by your cell phone? Wondering what your kids mean when they say they're tweeting on Twitter? Whatever it may be, All Tech Considered is here to explore it with you."
n2teaching: Professional Opportunities in Times of Uncertainty - 0 views
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Americans value mobility across the country and through the class ranks. This mobility remains especially important in times of economic stress. As educators, we can move to new schools or educational settings.
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Many educators will need the support and ideas of their peers over the next few years.
Pew Internet: The Internet Goes to College: How Students are Living in the Future with Toda... - 0 views
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The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial.
Digital Television Beckons, but Many Miss the Call (NYTimes.com) - 0 views
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...less than a month before the Feb. 17 deadline, so many American households have yet to take the necessary steps to continue to watch over-the-air television - more than 6.5 million, according to Nielsen Media Research - that Congress has considered giving them more time.
Sorting Children Into 'Cannots' and 'Cans' Is Just Racism in Disguise - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Tomorrow marks a turning point in the history of our schools as well as our country. Note how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom we honor today, had to confront the cold, hard, in-your-face prejudice of a legally segregated system, while the next president, Barack Obama, speaks of a softer negligence, illuminated by the frequently heard phrase, "These kids can't learn."
CREAX, creativity agency ? - 0 views
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here about some links they found ...
Explaining Collaboration to Learners - 0 views
http://www.accela.com/downloads/GT02_Special_Report.pdf?elq=BD3C17CA4A964CF0A186472D6B22D82... - 0 views
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Critical Mass: How Digital Technology Will Define the Way You Live
Digital communities are where you live-that's "you" as in Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2006, which recognizes and celebrates "the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter." This Digital Communities Special Report discusses how the 120 million Americans who are active online users and creators of content and services are changing the world by redefining it around their preferences and predilections, and by the technologies they use and the way they use them.
Also see http://www.accela.com/products/whitepapers.asp
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap - 0 views
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Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to "serious" work.
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