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21st Century Schools and Learning (for Educators and Parents)
Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
This is powerful video by educator Karl Fisch about how quickly changes in technology, globalization, population, and information are occuring. I have shown this video in my seminar because in these five minutes, Fisch gets across the need for schools to shift out of the assembly-line model (a topic that’s been at the foundation of my books and presentations for much of my career) with great visual clarity and emotional impact. Click here to view the YouTube video.
Also, click here to see different versions of this content and text in several formats (video, PDF, Word), additional quotes, and two other terrific “Fischbowl Presentations.” Great stuff.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future
by Daniel Pink
Nearly 25 years ago, I wrote (in a now out-of-print book called 21st Century Discipline) about the need for schools to catch up to the needs of the Information Age. Many of the skills I described are among those Pink lists as requirements of what he calls the Conceptual Age, which he distinguishes from the “knowledge workers” of his Information Age as requiring the recruitment of right-brain talents for the development of six senses: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning.
The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman
What Friedman means by flat is connected: the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations, but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world. Includes specific recommendations about the technical and creative training he thinks will be required to compete in the “New Middle” class. (Excerpted and adapted from an editorial review on Amazon.com by Tom Nissley)
Also see “Brave New World: The Changing Role of the School”
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