Background+Reading

Partnership for 21st Century Skills @http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=120

Edutopia. Publications of the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) @http://www.edutopia.org/ //(Full disclosure:// //Whaley is a charter member.)// A number of articles on 21st Century learning and learners.

Techlearning background piece from 2003 @http://www.techlearning.com/article/13832

A nice piece about base knowledge and its role in 21st century skills discussion (by Stephen Downes.) http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/09/operating-system-for-mind.html

eSchool News has a number of articles on the topic. @http://www.eschoolnews.com/google-search/index.cfm?cx=007256987256189418192%3Azp5qkm-xx6w&cof=FORID%3A11&q=21st+century+skills&sa=Google+Search

Daniel Pink,  "The purpose of public education in America is not to deliver employees to employers. It's much richer and broader than that." A review of Pink's work is here: @http://www.thefutureofwork.net/assets/Review_of_A_Whole_New_Mind.pdf Pink was also at an Iowa tech meeting recently. Group notes are available here: @http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/10/itec-2009-daniel-pink-keynote.html

Richard Florida, __The Rise of the Creative Class__ is similar. A review here: @http://creativeclass.com//rfcgdb/articles/GlaeserReview.pdf

David Warlick is also taking a look at the future of learning and teaching. http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheArtAmpTechniqueOfCultivatingYourPersonalLearningNetwork and @http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/ As with a number of authors mentioned here, Warlick is using these tools to support a presentation tour. These links may change. The link from Wordpress seems especially appropriate @http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedefiningLiteracyForThe21stCentury David has also made his interesting browser bookmarks available at Delicious. @http://delicious.com/dwarlick

Wikipedia shows nothing directly related to the topic of 21 Century Skills in our context yet. Wikipedia did provide a lead to Challenge Based Learning approach modeled after the work of Dewey. @http://ali.apple.com/cbl/global/files/CBL_Paper.pdf

A Technorati search for 21st Century Skills turned up a blog by Tony Bates (he carries a Technorati authority of 24 and his blog is ranked at 146,000 fairly high.) that talks about the topic http://www.tonybates.ca/2009/10/12/eight-principles-for-21st-century-skills/

A De.licio.us search turns up a number of previously mentioned sites, but tagging is dynamic so this may change. http://delicious.com/search?p=21st+Century+Skills&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=0&atags=education&rtags=&context=userposts%7CRogerWhaley%7C&context=all %7C%7C

Remember Dewey? @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

The new literacy wiki. Thinking skills are more important than software skills. Technology should be presented as students need it to further their learning. http://newliteracy.wikispaces.com/

Howard Rheingold has been visionary about trends in society and technology He suggests a literacy approach to education. @http://blip.tv/file/2373937

Dr. Raymond Kurzweil is an interesting read on the future of technology. @http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 His ideas have been important in the past. He has made many contributions in the world of science, computing and education. The __Singularity is Near__ is the name of his book that goes into detail about his thoughts on the future. For those wondering when (or if, a basic premise of the book) machines will become self aware MIT has an interesting project going @http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23821/

Educational Origami is a wiki being run by an ICT teacher and focuses on teaching in the information age @http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/21st+century+teaching+and+learning.pdf The look at Bloom's Taxonomy and 21st century teaching is interesting @http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/21st+century+teaching+and+learning.pdf

USA Today has covered this as well. @http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-03-04-core-knowledge_N.htm They did find some critics.

More Critics! @http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/12/09/14partnership_ep.h29.html?tkn=OYZFWjS20IL0z9avzO4N%2BjXPpQJg1d1IjmGs

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/12/does-your-school-organization-reflect-our-new-digital-information-landscape.html#comments Interesting blog post from 12/1/09 about information in our classrooms.

The Moving Forward Wiki from CASTLE. http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/21st+century+skills  The National Council of Teacher of English has a 21st Century skills page @http://www.ncte.org/pathways/21stcentury

Maine has a head start on the technology piece. Some research is starting to develop here http://usm.maine.edu/cepare/mlti.htm

Illinois has some ideas of what science and math would look like in a 21st century classroom. http://pbln.imsa.edu/model/comparison/


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