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William Brannick

Study: '21st Century Learning' Demands Mix of Abilities - Inside School Research - Educ... - 0 views

  • The committee found these skills generally fall into three categories
  • ognitive skills
  • Intrapersonal skills,
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  • Interpersonal skills
  • and conceptual models within a specific subject area, and even experts often fail to apply
  • Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing and it is very challenging," Mr. Pellagrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way. We do know how to promote transfer but it is limited in scope."
  • The committee found students develop the best ways to solve new problems by learning
  • Yet the keystone skill, the one that underlies and connects skills in all three areas, may be the trickiest to teach and test: a student's ability to transfer and apply her or his existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
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  • ng knowledge when a problem is presented in a totally new context.
  • "Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area,"
  • "If we really believe that the fundamental proposition here is transfer, it would dramatically affect what we did in curriculum assessment and instruction,"
  • "In math, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets."
William Brannick

Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook | Edutopia - 0 views

  • A couple recent models of this education advocacy on Facebook that come to mind may be different in intent, but they both have something in common: the use of 21st century tools to move mountains.
  • It was, he admits with a smile via Skype, “one-hundred percent student created.”
William Brannick

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning - 0 views

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    A visual description of 21 century skills by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning
William Brannick

Buck Institute for Education | Project Based Learning - 0 views

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    Institute on Project Based Learning
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