Tag Archive | "21st Century Skills"

An Education for the 21st Century Without 21st Century Skills?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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What’s the problem with P21? Ken Kay, Amie Ciluffo Larson, Kathy Welling, and Dr. Harvey Dean make for nice window dressing, concept wise. Their Framework makes for a compelling model, but the criticism (here and here) stands to stall its momentum. Why? For some reason the skills P21espouses come across as empty calories. People like the ideas, but [...]

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21st Century Education

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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All we really know about the future is that we really don’t know much about the future.  We can portend some possible trends based on history, current data, and the theoretical trajectory of prevalent consumption patterns, but at the end of the day, all our pontificating and punditry doesn’t change the fact that we don’t [...]

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