Preparing Students for the 21st Century

The Need for Rigor/Relevance/Relationships

Jim Miles

Achieving Academic Excellence for All Students

Jim Miles

Jim@LeaderEd.com

Challenges Changing Workplace Technology Globalization

1900 Workplace Demands

Highly skilled

Low skilled

•Avg. age to enter work force

•Avg. age to leave work force

•Life expectancy

1980 Workplace Demands

Highly skilled

Low skilled

Semi skilled

•Avg. age to enter work force•Avg. age to leave work force•Life expectancy

2010 Workplace Demands

Highly skilled

Low skilled

•Avg. age to enter the workplace •Number of times to change jobs •Est. Life expectancy in 2100

Source: Tough Choices Tough Times, National Center on Education and the Economy

Technology Challenges Information Technology Nanotechnology Biotechnology

Information Technology

• Processing

• Communications

Projection Keyboard and ProjectorProjection Keyboard and Projector

Language TranslationLanguage Translation GogglesGoggles

Emotiv

16 embedded sensors

Detect facial expressions and emotions

Push, pull, lift, and drop

http://emotiv.com/INDS_3/inds_3.html

Semantic Web

Web 1.0 = Information basedWeb 1.0 (1990-2000) used as an information source

Web 2.0 = Communication based Web 2.0 (2000-?) used for tagging, social networks, etc.

Web 3.0 = Organize data/draw conclusionsWeb 3.0 Web 3.0 GPS read road sign and drive car

Source: A Smarter Web

Central Units’ Memory = 8 MBCentral Units’ Memory = 8 MB

2004 iPod = 4 GB2004 iPod = 4 GB2005 iPod = 20 GB2005 iPod = 20 GB

2008 iPod = 160 GB2008 iPod = 160 GB

1964 IBM System / 360 Mainframe

Nano TechnologyAtom Up

Personalized MedicineProducts - Services

Quality of Life

Today’s Youth

Technologically literate

America’s Classrooms

Does this connect with and engage today’s youth?

World Leaders1600s Spanish1700s Dutch1800s British1900s United States2000s ? ? ?

Shenzhen

1980 - Fishing Village

2007 -

Port of Shenzhen

Source: Atlantic Monthly

1 / Second

24 / 7

Computer Sales

Dell

Sony

Compaq

HP

IBM Think Pad

Apple

NEC

Gateway

Toshiba

Quanta

Wispron

Asustek

Compal

Inventec

Computer

Manufacturers

Mainland China

Companies

90 %

Cities with 1 Million PeopleCities with 1 Million People

United States

Europe

China (2006)

China (2020)

9

36

100 +

160 +

China 1987 $ 6,293,600,000 2007 $ 321,442,900,000

Furniture Consumer Electronics Computers Bio Technology

Forces of Technology and Globalization are altering the nature of work, the organizationof firms, and where work is conducted

Key Questions to be Addressed

The world around us is changing rapidly. How has your curriculum changed to prepare students for their world?

What knowledge, skills, attitudes will best prepare our students for their world?

Curriculum should focus on what students need to

KnowBe Able to DoBe Like (Behaviors)

for success in life and in career

21st Century Skills for Success

Strong Academics Reading, Writing, Math, Science

Career Skills Workplace Attitudes & Ethics Technology Skills

Character Virtues Honesty, Responsibility, Integrity

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Self-knowledge• Who am I?

Career exploration • Where am I going?

Career Plan• How do I get there?

INTEGRATED LEARNING

• What am I learning?

• Why am I learning it?

• How can I use it?

UNIVERSAL FOUNDATION SKILLS

(SCANS)• What do I need to know?

• What skills are

important for me”

knowledge application

skills

Questions students

should be able to answer

The primary aim of education is not to enable

students to do well in school, but to help them do well in the lives they lead

outside of school.