Posts tagged with: 21st-century-learning
What are 21st Century Skills?
What do phrases like "21st century skills" and "21st century learning" mean? What are these new skills? Why are they necessary? Who decides what these are and how they should be taught? more
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
by Allan Collins, Richard Halverson4 used from $305.00
The potential significance of Allan Collins and Richard Halverson’s cogent argument for questioning the very definition of what school means especially within the broader context of education in today’s knowledge-driven... more
Five Competencies for Adapting to a Changing World
— Dr. Helen Haste, visiting professor at the Harvard Grad School of Education, shares her take on 21st century "competencies". more
Smartphones Connect Kids in Schools
— Smartphones are getting more powerful, making mobile-learning, or ‘m-learning’, increasingly viable. The above article describes one such project for 8th and 9th graders in four schools in North Carolina, which... more
What Students Want From Their Schools
In 2008, Marc Prensky authored an article in which he urged educators and policymakers to not ignore what the most important stakeholders in the education system had to say. He... more
Podcast trumps lecture in one college study
A sign of things to come?
The ability to listen to a lecture over and over, and pause the lecture to digest the information and/or jot down notes, is clearly an... more