Posts Tagged ‘ 21st Century Skills ’

This headline was confusing to me, so I had to look a bit further.  But after reading through the context of President Obama’s comments about technology as a “distraction”, his meaning became more clear. I think the gist of the President’s concerns are found as he discusses the role that constant information has taken...
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This article has an interesting take on the “digital divide” and how it applies to college freshmen. The study looks at 500 college freshmen from California and surveyed their technical computer skills.  The findings looked at high school and home computer skills and found that many students may have used technology for academic purposes,...
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I was asked once by a colleague to relate Dan Pink’s Right-Brain aptitudes to Bloom’s taxonomy.  To be honest I have always preferred to apply Bloom’s Taxonomy through the verbs that are usually associated with his work.  My colleague and I threw out as many verbs as we could remember, and I wrote them...
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It looks like this Chicago school is going to implement quite a few of Dan Pink’s right-brain aptitudes, even though they did not call them by name. The article highlights a school that is implementing a new curriculum supported by Partnership for 21st Century Skills.  They will move to a collaborative, inquiry-based learning model...
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In education we love to follow the latest fads in technology.  At most of the conferences and professional development I have attended over the past year, Twitter was always presented as an instructional technology of the future. But if you read through this article, you’ll find that only 21% of Twitter users are classified...
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I’ve been hearing about this launch by Google, and it looks pretty darn cool. I am a big Google Apps fan, and I use it extensively in my international studies program.  If you want to develop a collaborative environment, I really think it’s the best.  Plus, you can get an enhanced education version for...
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Crazy stuff.  We like to think that we are so advanced, but this article references a 1980′s “Classroom Computer News” publication that addresses many of the same concepts that we face today.  Changing technology, budget challenges, and a “rising tide” of criticism from the media. If you can get over the dated look, feel,...
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This past Friday I had the honor of being a presenter at the annual KC TechNet conference.  I conducted a morning session over implementing Dan Pink’s 21st Century skills from A Whole New Mind into the classroom.  The session went extremely well, and I think that the participants left with a great framework for...
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Even though this $200 Netbook may not be it, the future is just around the corner. I have the privilege of teaching half of my day in a classroom setting where every student has a Macbook.  As you can imagine, this has changed my entire approach to education. But the technology is just a...
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When I ran across this data, the impirtance of Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind began to crystallize. I think as teachers we are obsessed with teaching technology to our students.  We think that if we can learn the cutting edge technologies, then our kids will be at an advantage.
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