Timothy Magner, Executive Director, Partnership For 21st Century Skills
Much conversation surrounding common core and connections to Ed tech.
Profound knowledge gap and gap in globally competitive skills.
Non-routine jobs on the rise, but school is not changing and keeping up with this trend.
Read, write, think, and be responsible and dependable!
Ability to collaborate, think creatively, and innovate.
21st Centyry Skills Framework (see p21 website)
21st Century themes
Information, Media and Tech Skills
Life and Career Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
"applying what you know to a new, real-world situation."
What assessments are rightnfor 21st c skills?
About the Common Core:
Big shift nationwide 40 plus states aligning, integrating
Ccss needs to be looked at as the floor not the bar!
P21 putting toolkit together. Help leaders implement with alignment overview, examples, and assessments.
Ccss both explicitly and implicitly calls for P21 skills
What's not covered? CCSS dos not tell how to teach, leavingnmuch flexibility. Encourages a broad spectrum. Connections among disciplines.
Explicitly embedded outcomes with liberal self-direction.
Note to presenter...too much, too fast, too dry, please be more engaging to your audience!
1 comment:
Looks like you received some good information. The Common Core Class in Relationship to Project Based Learning by David Ross and Dayna Laur was excellent and interesting. It changes the mindset of how to approach delivery to students.
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