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