EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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Your Mission, should you decide to accept it,
Is to take education into the 21st century
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What is 21st Century Education?
Education that addresses
a
rapidly changing world
filled with new PROBLEMS
as well as
new POSSIBILITIES
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Today’s kindergarten students will retire in 2074
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What will the world look like
in 60 years?
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Our mission is to prepare our
students for life in that world
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Content Knowledge, Expertise & Literacies are
the Foundation
CORE SUBJECTSARE THE FOUNDATION FOR SKILLS
LEARNING & INNOVATION
SKILLS
Information, Media, &
Technology Skills
Life & Career Skills
SKILLS
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What skills will our students
need in the 21st Century?
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Critical Thinking
andProblem Solving
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Collaboration across Networks
andLeading
by Influence and
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Effective Oral and
Written Communication
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Creativity
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Adaptabilityand
Agility*
*the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly; intellectual acuity
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Initiativeand
Entrepreneurialism
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Accessing and AnalyzingInformation
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Curiosityand
Imagination
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What About Technology?
Digital Natives
Digital Immigran
ts
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“Although today’s students understand how to access and utilize these
(multimedia)tools, many of them are used for entertainment purposes only, and the students are not truly
media literate.”Dr. Michael Wesch
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We use the tools to enable our students to
become truly media literate as functioning
in an online collaborative, research-
based environment.
RESEARCHIN
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ANALYZING SYNTH
ESIZING
CRITIQ
UINGEVA
LUATIN
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CREATING NEW KNOWLEDGE
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21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS
An environment that connects teachers and
students to the wealth of knowledge that exists in
the world
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21st CENTURY TEACHERS
Orchestrators of learning, helping
students turn information into
knowledge and knowledge into wisdom based on a
Biblical worldview and the unchanging truth
found in Jesus
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Watch Utube VideosA Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o