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• The world of the future will demand capacities that, until now, have been mere options. Have you be-Howard GardnerMon, 04/07/2008 - 18:33 -- adminThe world of the future will demand capacities that, until now, have been mere options. Have you begun developing those capacities - in yourself and others?
  
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  The Case for Connected ClassroomsMon, 03/17/2008 - 14:05 -- admin
  This video was created as an introduction for a presentation at Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) . The session was designed to show teachers how to connect their classrooms to the world of information.
  
  
  
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  Old School, New School: Two Teachers 'Argue' About Technology in ClassroomsMon, 03/17/2008 - 14:00 -- admin
  In this playful dramatization, two teachers, 20th C & 21st C , argue over using interactive tools in the classroom.
  
  
  
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  The Whole Child Approach to LearningThu, 03/13/2008 - 15:19 -- admin
  The American Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) calls on parents, educators, policymakers, and communities to join forces to ensure our children become productive, engaged citizens. Our children deserve an education that emphasizes academic rigor as well as the essential 21st century skills of critical thinking and creativity.
  
  
  
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  The Technology Fear Factor in EducationThu, 03/13/2008 - 15:15 -- admin
  This creative video asserts that American education continues to be afraid of technology and ignore its importance to our future as a nation and the future of our children. Further, it advises that we must move ahead and use technology to teach and to keep our kids safe, as wisely-used technology can be a friend of education, whereas ignorance is the true enemy.
  
  
  
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  Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media?Thu, 03/13/2008 - 15:01 -- admin
  The MacArthur Foundation (USA) launched a $50 million initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The foundation asserts that the answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations.
  
  More information on [[http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org| The MacArthur Foundation website]].
  
  
  
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  School Design for Small Learning CommunitiesThu, 03/13/2008 - 14:48 -- admin
  Jeff Lackney of School Design Studio facilitated a month long series of design workshops with students and teachers from West High School in Madison, Wisconsin aimed at creating smaller learning communities within the large 2,000 student school. This process was one of many activities involved in a planning grant awarded the school in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Education.
  
  
  
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  School Design: Be the Change...Thu, 03/13/2008 - 14:43 -- admin
  This video is a presentation about school design made by a teacher in the USA in hopes of sparking some discussion her district.
  
  
  
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  Changing Education RevolutionThu, 03/13/2008 - 14:36 -- admin
  This playful student-made video exhorts teachers to “teach for the future” because students are the future.
  
  
  
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  A View of Education Past, Present and FutureThu, 03/13/2008 - 14:31 -- admin
  This video is a playful exploration of the disconnect between current educational thinking and the reality for today’s students.
  
  
  
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  • 21st Century PedagogyWed, 03/12/2008 - 19:54 -- admin
    Greg Whitby, Executive Director of Schools for the Catholic Diocese of Paramatta in Australia speaks of the urgent need to transform how both schools and teachers understand what they do to meet the needs of the students and realities of the 21st century. Mr. Whitby has been widely recognized for his leadership in the area of learning and teaching in a digital age.
    
    
    
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    The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable FutureMon, 03/03/2008 - 17:02 -- adminDespite all of society’s advances, our problems proliferate. Wars abound, environmental degradation accelerates, economies topple overnight, and pandemics such as AIDS and tuberculosis continue to spread. The Internet and other media help to disseminate knowledge, but they’ve also created an “info-glut” and left us too little time to process it. What’s more, advances in technology have made the world so bewilderingly fast-paced and complex that fewer people are able even to grasp the problems, let alone generate solutions.
    
    
    
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    building the wrong skills?It’s no secret when we look at the [[http://changelearning.ca/get-informed/whats-problem/how-we-got-here|history of Western education]] that part of the purpose of secondary school was to make sure that adolescents learned the skills needed for the factory floor and the office desk – things like respecting authority, staying on task and an ability to follow instructions. Schools and learning activities were structured accordingly.
    
    
    
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    Current formal education still prepares students p-Howard GardnerMon, 02/18/2008 - 17:57 -- adminCurrent formal education still prepares students primarily for the world of the past, rather than for possible worlds of the future….[we have] not yet figured out how to prepare youngsters so that they can survive and thrive in a world different from one ever known or even imagined before.
    
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    If young people are to be equipped effectively to -John Abbott, Terence RyanMon, 02/18/2008 - 17:15 -- adminIf young people are to be equipped effectively to meet the challenges of the 21st century it is surely prudent to seek out the very best understandings from current scientific research into the nature of how humans learn before considering further reform of the current system.
    
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    Cleverness will never be enough - our world needs -John AbbottMon, 02/18/2008 - 16:37 -- adminCleverness will never be enough - our world needs creativity, and the ability to think holistically and ethically.
    
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    The School of Tomorrow, TodayThe Hadley Learning Community opened on the 1st September 2006 and is located in the community of Hadley in central Telford.HLC is a £70 million PFI project, in partnership with Interserve that represents a major investment by the Brorough of Telford & Wrekin Council in creating a 21st Century learning campus.
    
    
    
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    Catching the Knowledge Wave: The Knowledge Society and the Future of EducationThu, 02/07/2008 - 14:08 -- adminJane Gilbert says that knowledge is now a verb, not a noun – something we do rather than something we have – and explores the ways our schools need to change to prepare people to participate in the knowledge-based societies of the future. 
    Read our staff review of Catching the Knowledge Wave?, below.
    
    About the author
    Jane Gilbert is a chief researcher with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. She has a background in teaching at both secondary and tertiary levels.
    
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    A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the FutureMon, 02/04/2008 - 13:27 -- adminLawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That’s what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. That’s the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.
    
    
    
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    ...the largest gains have been in jobs that requir-Dan PinkMon, 02/04/2008 - 13:02 -- admin...the largest gains have been in jobs that require "people skills and emotional intelligence" and "imagination and creativity".
    
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    The future belongs to a very different kind of per-Dan PinkMon, 02/04/2008 - 13:00 -- adminThe future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind--creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people--artists, inventors, designers, storyteller, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers--will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.
    
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    ... "right-brain" qualities of inventiveness, empa-Dan PinkMon, 02/04/2008 - 12:58 -- admin... "right-brain" qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning--increasing will determine who flourishes and who flounders.
    
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    Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net GenerationThu, 01/31/2008 - 19:00 -- adminIn Growing Up Digital, bestselling author Don Tapscott profiles this net generation and how its use of digital technology reshaping the way society and individuals interact. Unlike the Baby Boomers who grew up with the passive medium of television, children today, in ever-growing numbers, are embracing interactive media such as the Internet, CD-ROM, and video games.
    
    
    
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    Out of Our Minds: Learning to be CreativeThu, 01/31/2008 - 18:29 -- admin‘Out of Our Minds’: there is a paradox. Throughout the world, companies and organizations are trying to compete in a world of economic and technological change that is moving faster than ever. They urgently need people who are creative, innovative and flexible. Too often they can’t find them. Why is this? What’s the real problem — and what should be done about it? Out of Our Mindsanswers three vital questions for all organizations that have a serious strategic interest in creativity and innovation.
    
    
    
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    Heather MacTaggart Asks: Why Act Now?Mon, 01/28/2008 - 18:32 -- admin
    Heather McTaggart speaks about the roles that community and home must play in our system of education, particularly in the context of a rapidly changing world.
    
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    Heather MacTaggart is the Executive Director of [[http://classroomconnections.ca/|Classroom Connections]], a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
    
    
    
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    Heather MacTaggart on Educating for Today and TomorrowMon, 01/28/2008 - 18:24 -- admin
    Heather McTaggart discusses the need for schools to educate students for the realities of today and the possibilities of tomorrow.
    
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    Heather MacTaggart is the Executive Director of [[http://classroomconnections.ca/|Classroom Connections]], a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
    
    
    
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    A Factory Model of Education: Heather MacTaggart SpeaksMon, 01/28/2008 - 18:12 -- admin
    Heather McTaggart discusses the fact that a factory-production model of education still exists, although we are now well into a knowledge-based economy era.
    
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    Heather MacTaggart is the Executive Director of [[http://classroomconnections.ca/|Classroom Connections]], a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
    
    
    
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    world Issues-W. Edwards DemingFri, 01/18/2008 - 13:09 -- adminIt is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
    
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    -Dr. Fraser MustardFri, 01/18/2008 - 11:01 -- adminIf you want an idea of what your economy will look like in say 15 or 20 years…if you want an economy that's vibrant, citizens who are productive and a workplace that's innovative - think about the investment you're making in very young people today.
    
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    -Eric JensonFri, 01/18/2008 - 11:00 -- adminWhat ensures our survival is adapting and creating options. A typical classroom narrows our thinking strategies and answer options. Educators who insist on singular approaches and “the right answer” are ignoring what has kept our species around for centuries
    
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    -Terry RyanFri, 01/18/2008 - 10:59 -- adminIn the new economy, which depends on knowledge, ingenuity and innovation, on mobilizing the talents of all- getting the best out of everyone- it is essential to develop all the potential of all our children.
    
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    -Terry RyanFri, 01/18/2008 - 10:57 -- adminYouth today must become active entrepreneurs and innovators to succeed and to take the lead in reversing the environmental crisis ahead.
    
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    The New Economy's Impact on LearningThe last decades of the 20th century saw countries around the world make the dramatic transition from closed, state-dominated, economies towards open, free-market, economies. This article explores the impact that the shift towards a more knowledge-based economy has had on Americans and, in particular, the implication for children’s learning. 
    (A paper by Terry Ryan)
    
    
    
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    Report: e-learning in CanadaE-learning has made a remarkable transition over the past decade. In spite of a lack of definitive, empirical research, there is growing practical evidence that use of information and communication technology (ICT) can provide advantages to the learning process that are not readily available in other ways. 
    Note that a state of the field review on e-learning conducted by the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University is also available.
    (Source: Canadian Council on Learning )
    
    
    
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    Review of E-Learning in Canada: Evidence, Gaps, and Promising DirectionsThis 2006 review develops an argument catalogue to encompass public, research, policy, and practitioner perspectives, assesses what is incomplete in the various literatures, explores what works (best practices), and provides a vision for promising new lines of research. The review focused on the role of e-learning in early childhood learning, elementary and secondary learning, post-secondary learning, adult learning, and health and learning. 
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    -Terry RyanTue, 01/15/2008 - 20:42 -- adminThere is a very optimistic scenario waiting to unfold and that is one where the needs of the economy are actually in-line with the natural functioning of the human brain.
    
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    the rise of technologyToday’s students are the first generation to grow up in the midst of digital technology and these very different experiences have changed the way they think, behave and, quite possibly, the physical structure of their brain. These students require radically different methods to engage them in the learning process and maximize the potential of new technologies that surround them.
    
    
    
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    changing economy“The work place is demanding more innovation and creativity…That’s a fundamental shift from just five years ago when the focus was on simply re-engineering and efficiency.” Terry Ryan
    
    
    
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    The Skills Gap in Canada: Preparing for the Jobs of the FutureThe knowledge requirements of Canadians’ jobs are growing rapidly. Despite the successes of Canadian schools, a gap remains between the demand for workers with strong literacy and numeracy skills and the supply of Canadians who possess them.
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    Learning Cities: Optimizing Economic and Social Well-being through Lifelong Learning for AllCanadian cities—now home to 80% of Canada’s citizens—offer economic, educational and cultural opportunities, but also face problems related to equity, maintenance of social cohesion, and civic engagement. Pioneered in Europe and Australia, the creation of “Learning Cities” recognizes that optimal social and financial well-being occurs under conditions that favour lifelong learning for all.
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    Media Literacy for Children in the Internet AgeStatistics Canada reports that 81% of homes with children under 18 years old are connected to the internet, and the number grows with each passing year. Media literacy is an important tool in the understanding of new media and for ensuring that children’s exposure to the digital world is enjoyable and safe, and guidance by parents and/or teachers plays an important role.
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    Science literacy bolstered by free-choice learning beyond the classroomScience is playing a growing role in public policy and in the daily lives of most citizens. As a result, science literacy skills are becoming increasingly important. Free-choice science learning is a form of non-sequential, self-paced and voluntary learning “that is guided by a person’s needs and interests.”
    
    
    
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    Creating the Learners Society NeedsThe workplace of the 21st century requires certain skills that employers find are in short supply. Recent research suggests that a learning strategy called knowledge building can help students acquire and develop these skills.
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    Composite Learning Index: Helping communities improve their quality of lifeThe Composite Learning Index is a practical measurement tool that can help Canadians identify their community’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to fostering the best possible environment for lifelong learning. The CLI results offer community leaders and decision-makers a unique and valuable opportunity to help shape how their community can achieve the economic and social benefits that come from lifelong learning.
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    Redefining Knowledge for the Post-industrial AgeJane Gilbert discusses the modern knowledge-based society and and explores the meaning of ‘knowledge’ in our current context. Gilbert also explores the history of thinking about education and how and why these ideas need to change.Read the article by clicking on the live link to the Canadian Education Association website, below.
    
    Jane Gilbert, formerly a secondary teacher, is a chief researcher with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
    
    
    
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    Removing barriers to apprenticeship trainingAn important study in the area of apprenticeship training in Canada helps set the agenda for removing perceived employment barriers for skilled trade apprentices and to dispel some of the myths and reinforce the concept of apprenticeship training in the minds of the public. 
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    Educating the heart as well as the mindThis articles discusses the role of schools in fostering social and emotional learning as key components of success in both school and life. 
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    Report: Canadian trends in the integration of ICT for learning K-12This paper describes aspects of the current context of education policy in Canada, selected trends in the integration of information and communications technologies (ICT) for learning in the kindergarten to grade 12 education systems and offers observations about emerging visions of effective ICT integration. The ideas presented represent a synthesis of information reviewed in research reports, policy papers, selected seminars and surveys.
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    Youth Speak: Life as Student in the 21st CenturyMon, 01/07/2008 - 13:30 -- admin
    This short video summarizes some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
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    Don't Bother Me Mom, I'm Learning : How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids For Twenty-first Century SuccessMon, 01/07/2008 - 13:23 -- adminThe reason kids are so attracted to these games, Prensky says, is that they are learning about important “future” things, from collaboration, to prudent risk taking, to strategy formulation and execution, to complex moral and ethical decisions. Prensky’s arguments are backed up by university PhD’s studying not just game violence, but games in their totality, as well as studies of gamers who have become successful corporate workers, entrepreneurs, leaders, doctors, lawyers, scientists and other professionals.
    
    
    
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    From Concept to Sale: Students Learn by Doing in Manufacturing ProgramEarl of March Secondary School has been recognized many times for its innovated technological excellence. Recently, however the focus has been on its hands-on approach from everything from marketing, to design technology to product completion. Students and trades people alike are taking a second look at what is happening at the Kanata based high school.
    
    
    
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    Do Schools Kill Creativity?: Ken Robinson speaksThu, 12/20/2007 - 19:28 -- admin
    Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. Watch it now. 
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    Five Minds for the FutureMon, 12/17/2007 - 16:36 -- adminWe live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business and the professions. In Five Minds for the Future, noted psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:
    
    
    • the disciplinary mind – mastery of major schools of thought (including science, mathematics, and history)and of at least one professional craft
    
    
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    education for today and tomorrowThere’s no question that the world is a very different place than it was when public schooling became a common practice in North America. In fact, the rate of change itself has accelerated dramatically during this time frame.
    
    
    
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