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The Other 21st Century Skills

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From usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com - May 22, 2013 10:57 PM
Many have attempted to identify the skills important for a learner today in this era of the 21st century (I know it is an overused phrase).  I have an affinity towards the skills identified by Tony...
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We hear the words 21st century skills and as educators we know how the Common Core is defining those skills, but what are others saying? This post explores a range of ideas that have been put forth as 21st century skills.
Gerstein begins with a look at the skills identified by Tony Wagner. This overview is followed by a slideshow put out by Gallup called "The Economics of Human Development: The Path to Winning Again in Education." This is follwed by a look at six "skills and attributes (that) would serve the learners (of all ages) in this era of learning." 

* Grit

* Resilience

* Hope and Optimism

* Vision and the Future

* Self-Regulation

* Empathy and Global Stewardship

You will find many great resources in this post.

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Charmaine Thaner's curator insight, June 10, 2013 7:33 PM

Let's raise well-rounded children!
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The Innovative Educator: Dropping Out was a Great Idea

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From theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.fr - May 20, 2012 8:43 PM

This post is written by a student who chose to drop out of school. Quoting from the article:

"The good news is that it worked. I’ve developed a wide range of interests and skills, with my lifelong field of choice being software. I have a software development job that I love, I have no student debt, and I feel secure about my long-term future...

The bad news is that along the way, I discovered that public schools are not prepared to fairly compete for their students’ attention. This has resulted in a long series of slightly traumatizing events. From the prescription drugging, to the humiliation of being singled out from the rest of my peers, to the threats of litigation, it’s been a long road..."

Read on and allow this article to challenge some notions you may have.

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Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform

Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.dissentmagazine.org - April 22, 2012 8:57 PM

"If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The implications of this truism have now taken hold in the market-modeled “education reform movement.” As a result, the private funders and nonprofit groups that run the movement have overhauled their strategy. They’ve gone political as never before—like the National Rifle Association or Big Pharma or (ed reformers emphasize) the teachers’ unions."

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Learners Should Be Developing Their Own Essential Questions

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From usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com - March 28, 2013 11:35 PM

"Having essential questions drive curriculum and learning has become core to many educators' instructional practices.  Grant Wiggins, in his work on Understanding By Design, describes an essential quetion as:  

A meaning of “essential” involves important questions that recur throughout one’s life. Such questions are broad in scope and timeless by nature. They are perpetually arguable – What is justice?  Is art a matter of taste or principles? How far should we tamper with our own biology and chemistry?  Is science compatible with religion? Is an author’s view privileged in determining the meaning of a text? We may arrive at or be helped to grasp understandings for these questions, but we soon learn that answers to them are invariably provisional..."

Beth Dichter's insight:

Why should we teach students to develop their own essential questions? Perhaps because they may be able to develop questions that are engaging and of interest to them. 
Gerstein explores this issue by sharing a variety of resources that look at question, including Jamie McKenzie who describes "what actually happens in most schools and classrooms in terms of questioning", Paul Harris who "argues that questions occupy a more central role than we realize in childhood cognitive development", and others.

In addition there is information on how to help students generate their own essential questions (additional information in the post):

* Begin a New Unit with Students Developing Questions

* Create a Taxonomy of Questions

* Ask Students to Create Questions as Homework

She also shares information on the QFT (Question Formulation Technique) which has six steps, beginning with "Teacher Design a Question Focus" and immediately moves to "Students Produce Questions" and then to "Students Improve Question" and finishes with "Students Reflect on What they have Learned." For more information (and steps 4 and 5) check out the post!

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Patrice Bucci's curator insight, September 29, 2013 7:00 PM

So true... I cringe when I am in classrooms with the packaged program "essential question" of the week on the board...and very often those "essential questions" lack cognitive clarity for the students
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight, January 8, 2014 1:33 PM

A great summary of why questioning still matters.  We've been talking about metacognition a lot this year in the library.  Learning how to develop questions is a large part of learning how you learn and think.
Stacey Jackowski's curator insight, February 19, 2014 8:20 PM

This quote is so true.  Learning how to ask essential questions is a skill that we can carry with us for the rest of our lives and facilitates a lifetime of learning. 
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Is the Educational Revolution About Videos: Ted-Ed and Khan Academy?

Is the Educational Revolution About Videos: Ted-Ed and Khan Academy? | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com - April 28, 2012 2:14 PM

"Khan Academy and the new Ted-Ed website are being touted to create an educational revolution. What I am concerned about is the underlying pedagogy of Ted-Ed and Khan Academy. I love listening to a good talk and talking about it afterwards, but does it change my thoughts and/or behavior? Typically not. Grant Wiggins’ recent post, 'Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really' discusses this point:

The point of learning is not just to know things but to be a different person – more mature, more wise, more self-disciplined, more effective, and more productive in the broadest sense."

So one question to consider, are the videos the core of instruction, or are teachers (live and in person) the core? Gernstein provides many resources in this article and raises many interesting points as this question is explored.

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The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture

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From usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com - April 16, 2012 6:09 PM

This post explores the flipped classroom providing a wide range of resources - links to many articles, videos, and images (including a SlideShare)that helps to gain a better understanding of a flipped classroom. Gerstein's summary states: "The Flipped Classroom offers a great use of technology - especially if it gets lecture out of the classrooms and into the hands and control of the learners. As it is being discussed, it is part of a larger picture of teaching and learning. The Flipped Classroom videos have a place in the models and cycles of learning proposed by educational psychologists and instructional designers. Providing educators with a full framework of how the Flipped Classroom can be used in their educational settings will increase its validity for educators and their administrators."

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