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Common Core - News | 21st Century Skills: An Old Familiar Song - 2 views

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shared by anonymous on 20 Jun 10 - Cached

The latest fad to sweep the wonderful world of pedagogy is called 21st Century Skills
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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.
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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...
- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I have never thought content knowledge was unimportant. I have just wanted it applied and therefore retained through some relevant application.</div>
  
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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.
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Jones wanted black children to "learn to do by doing," which was considered to be the modern, scientific approach to education.
- Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
  
  So if I want content knowledge to be relevant to students, I am racist?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">So if I want content knowledge to be relevant to students, I am racist?</div>
  
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their children couldn't read but spent an entire day baking nut bread
- Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
  
  Who is advocating this?
  
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- anonymous on 21 Jun 10
  
  I have seen instances where teachers interpreted real world connections similarly. I think it requires conversation and leadership.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I have seen instances where teachers interpreted real world connections similarly. I think it requires conversation and leadership.</div>
  
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another stab at getting rid of subject matter
- Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
  
  Again...Who is advocating this?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Again...Who is advocating this?</div>
  
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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 on 20 Jun 10
  
  Show me an educator who wants a war against content knowledge...Please!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Show me an educator who wants a war against content knowledge...Please!</div>
  
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- anonymous on 21 Jun 10
  
  Well said!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Well said!</div>
  
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determine ways to light up young minds and to generate excitement about historical imagination or scientific discovery.
- 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!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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!</div>
  
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We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically unless one has quite a lot of knowledge to think about.
- 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?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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?</div>
  
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- anonymous on 21 Jun 10
  
  Isn't the whole consume, critique, and produce model refuting this argument?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Isn't the whole consume, critique, and produce model refuting this argument?</div>
  
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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 on 20 Jun 10
  
  I thought the goal was to teach the love of learning through interesting and relevant means ALONG with the content.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I thought the goal was to teach the love of learning through interesting and relevant means ALONG with the content.</div>
  
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Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10

Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch

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anonymous on 21 Jun 10

Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch

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