Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Looking at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills website http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ I found some interesting things. I think that it is great that there a program like this that is bringing together groups such as Apple, Dell, Microsoft, National Education Association, AOL Time Warner, Cable in the Classroom, and Cisco Systems to help focus on America’s most important asset its future/youth. These companies know that the world is going to be technology driven in the future and they want to help make sure USA doesn’t fall behind. To be an effective citizen in the 21st century I agree that workers must be able to skills in information literacy, media literacy, and ICT(Information, Communications and Technology) literacy. I am in agreement with Century 21st that a way to assess technology literacy is needed so to I was glad to see my home state of Maine on the list of states working in this program. This is a good site because I can go on here and find resources and ideas to help shape my ever changing teaching pedagogy. It’s good to know that the NEA and a lot of other people are thinking to the future and focusing on ways to incorporate technology into the classroom so we as a country can try to stay in the game.
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Zach, I share your feelings of this site being so resourceful. While we were reading the first few resources within the first two modules, I kept thinking that businesses and the educational system need to unite. The curriculum should support the potential for students to become productive citizens of our technology driven society. It is not always easy as a teacher to track all of the different media technologies available and how to properly teach our students how to use them. The discussions and ideas on this site make it easier as an educator to stay "in touch" and it also makes us realize what a powerful issue technology integration has become in education today.
ReplyDeleteI particularly appreciate how this sites takes the format of collaboarting to adjust curriculum instead of taking a one-sided point of view that tells people what to do. The problems(issues) in society are becoming too complicated. The problems today are too complicated and too difficult for one person to understand no matter how well-educated they are and no matter how smart they are (Laureate Education, 2008).
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2008). Skills for the 21st Century. Baltimore: Author.