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Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World
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by Heidi Hayes Jacobs (Editor), Frank W. Baker (Author) (edit contributors)

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What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school s curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today? With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs... read more

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What does it mean to be educated in the 2st Century?
Information Literacy

* Understanding of knowledge, creation & authority
* Make meaning of information to create new knowledge
* Find, evaluate, organize, interpret & distribute information
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What does it mean to be educated in the 2st Century?
Information Literacy

* Understanding of knowledge, creation & authority
* Make meaning of information to create new knowledge
* Find, evaluate, organize, interpret & distribute information
* Pattern recognition, critical thinking, perception
* Gather knowledge to become intelligent vs. apply knowledge

Network Literacy

* Social production is enabled by power of networks to connect people
* Nature of learning & teaching
* Locating experts & eyewitnesses
* Relationships NOT technologies determine learning
* Enhancing the process of learning to be (Identity)

Global Literacy

* Compete. Cooperate & connect with global peers
* Greater understanding of 95% of world’s population
* Knowledge-driven global economy
* Global competency knowledge, language &respect
* Global perspective

Media Literacy

* Critical Thinking
* Literary Authority & participatory culture
* Media is shaping the way students think and express themselves
* No longer print-centric world
* Find, analyze, evaluate, organize, remix, store and share media

Student Portfolios

* Collecting-Selecting-Reflecting
* Metacognition
* Gather data about own learning
* Self-Modifying as lifelong learner
* Alternative assessment tool

Connecting

* Non-linear learning
* Semantic Web
* Interdisciplinary linkage to real world applications
* Global Connectivity
* Ubiquitous connectivity

Collaborating

* Learning is social
* Collective Intelligence
* Engage students to produce meaningful contributions
* Students making contributions to learning communities
* Establishing & maintaining working relationships

Communicating

* Tools to share what we learn open up new ways of thinking
* Professional Development
* Community
* Nationally/ Internationally
* Foreign Languages

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Heidi Hayes Jacobs (Editor)
  2. Frank W. Baker (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Stephen Wilmarth (Contributor)
  2. Bill Sheskey (Contributor)
  3. Alan November (Contributor)
  4. Vivien Stewart (Contributor)
  5. Tim Tyson (Contributor)
  6. Frank W. Baker (Contributor)
  7. Jamie P. Cloud (Contributor)
  8. David Niguidula (Contributor)
  9. Arthur L Costa (Contributor)
  10. Bena Kallick (Contributor)

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