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Attract: How can I interest participants in the event before they even arrive?  What should they do, watch, consider or experience that will get them excited and mentally prepared for an event? Enter: What happens as participants enter a space?  How do I want them to feel as they  arrive?   Engage: While they are at the event, what are the experiences that will that lead to transformation?  How will participants engage with their learning and with each other? Exit: How do I want the participants to feel at the end of the event?  How do we end?  How do they physically and mentally exit the space?  What will the participants leave with? Extend: What is the long-term transformation that I want them to have?  How do I follow-up with the participants and build on the experience?  How can I extend the transformation beyond the experience itself?

productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more" (p. x). Never has that been more possible than at this moment of abundant access to information, knowledge, and people via the web. But "wanting to learn more" suggests a transfer of power over learning from teacher to student—it implies that students discover the curriculum rather than have it delivered to them. It suggests that real learning that sticks—as opposed to learning that disappears once the test is over—is about allowing students to pursue their interests in the context of the curriculum.

literacy is much more than simply reading and writing texts. The organization's position statement (n.d.) now defines 21st century literacies as including "proficiency with the tools of technology," an ability to "manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information," an ability to "design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes," and more.

Stanford professor Howard Rheingold, believe that technology now requires an attention literacy—the ability to exert some degree of mental control over our use of technology rather than simply being distracted by it

Research tells us that, at the most basic level, children’s social skills may be in decline from spending less face-to-face time and more time on screens.

Middle school children leading digital lives pose a particular challenge.

middle, and high school is how hungry they are for their teachers to teach them pro-social strategies for dealing with these difficult social dynamics

they are expected to graduate with the habits of mind—curiosity, skepticism, compassion, wonder—that will prepare them to be better physicians

About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.

better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all

 A primary obligation of 21st century teachers is to open the doors to 24/7 learning, helping students understand that they can access education from virtually anywhere, at any time.