The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has put together an interesting website for educators. This site is user friendly and very descriptive. There are interactive areas on the site such as Route 21, which directs you to a page that gives the themes of the program. This site is actively approaching the issue of preparing our students for the 21st century work place and they not only pose the issues, but provide solutions to many of the issues our students face in modern educational systems.
An interesting section of the site is the link for participating states. These states are showing an iniative from the highest level of the state government to prepare their students for the 21st century. I can only wonder why Georgia, a state that desperately needs to improve the strength of our education system, is not on this list. Some of our counties are pushing forward into the 21st century and others simply can not financially keep up with a growing world of technology.
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One point was well made by someone else that it's possible some states are adopting their own 21st century curriculum. I wouldn't be surprised if North Carolina is in that situation since the state provides everything right down to the lesson plan for most of their districts. I'm not sure how Georgia does things, maybe they just don't see it as a priority yet.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see that districts aren't keeping up simply for financial reasons, yet all of this wasteful spending is going on in our country right now. Why do we need a high speed rail to connect Madison and Milwaukee Wisconsin, or redoing the sidewalks of Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Seems to me our government needs to get their priorities straight before we keep losing jobs overseas.
The link to the participating states was an interesting one to me also. I am a teacher in Ohio, Ohio is on the list, and I have never seen anything that the site had on there about Ohio education. I do know that we are making changes in the states requirement to graduate. I am not sure if any of the changes have to do technology but more testing. When new topics come out I am usually informed by the schools administration because they try and implement any changes to be made as soon as possible. This is all new to me, its information I will share with my colleagues at school.
ReplyDeleteRick Orr