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  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    This brings the other side of the argument. Is this argument necessary?
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    I ran across this in AFT's American Journal. It sites Dianne Ravitch's essay "A Century of Skills Movements". I'd like to take a closer look at the arguments made re skills vs. content as the focus. It this creating a straw person? I thought the goal was that student's learn modern day skills while acquiring the content.
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Common Core - News | 21st Century Skills: An Old Familiar Song - 2 views

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  • The latest fad to sweep the wonderful world of pedagogy is called 21st Century Skills
  • In the land of American pedagogy, innovation is frequently confused with progress, and whatever is thought to be new is always embraced more readily than what is known to be true.
  • old-fashioned or traditional, these terms being the worst sort of opprobrium that can be hurled at any educator.
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  • "it is no longer important what bits of information a student knows, but only that students be able to locate information" in the new 21st Century model...
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      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I have never thought content knowledge was unimportant. I have just wanted it applied and therefore retained through some relevant application.
  • Unfortunately the field of pedagogy is subject to frequent bouts of infatuation with fads and of lemming-like behavior in adopting the latest fad as holy writ.
  • Jones wanted black children to "learn to do by doing," which was considered to be the modern, scientific approach to education.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So if I want content knowledge to be relevant to students, I am racist?
  • their children couldn't read but spent an entire day baking nut bread
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Who is advocating this?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      I have seen instances where teachers interpreted real world connections similarly. I think it requires conversation and leadership.
  • another stab at getting rid of subject matter
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Again...Who is advocating this?
  • This deeply ingrained suspicion - hostility, even - towards subject matter is the single most significant reason for the failure of the standards movement in American education over the past generation.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Show me an educator who wants a war against content knowledge...Please!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Well said!
  • determine ways to light up young minds and to generate excitement about historical imagination or scientific discovery.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      WOW! All of the staff development I have taken has been for the sole purpose of disengaging the student. Excitement over learnning stuff - what a waste of time!
  • We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically unless one has quite a lot of knowledge to think about.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So the critical thinking comes only after you have the content knowledge? Who decides when one has the requisite knowledge? Graduate studies advisors? Doctoral thesis committees?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Isn't the whole consume, critique, and produce model refuting this argument?
  • Until we teach our teachers and our students to love knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I thought the goal was to teach the love of learning through interesting and relevant means ALONG with the content.
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
  • anonymous on 21 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
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    Diane Ravitch's thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century skills movement
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    Good place to start honestly thinking about where you are.
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    This is probably not new, but the self-assessment caused me to really think about my edu-community and more importantly, how I contribute to the findings and what I might do to be a part of any positive change.
Kenneth Jones

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    A Promethean trainer's visual learner collection
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    I haven't had a lot of time to explore this collection, but the creator was a passionate advocate for her collection...
Kenneth Jones

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org - 0 views

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  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    This will be useful to spark discussions and bring the world into the classroom
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    This looks promising....for exactly what, I am as yet uncertain...
Kenneth Jones

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  • Kenneth Jones on 15 Jun 10
     
    Carl Fisch's site at Arapaho HS
  • Kenneth Jones on 15 Jun 10
     
    In case you missed it at the training.
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