Thomas Foster Kansas Department of Education

June 22, 2013

2121stst Century Learning Century Learning

Promoting Integration

and Re-design

What are we going to do?What are we going to do?

Different JobsDifferent Jobs

Education that involves doing is engaging.Education that involves doing is engaging. - Roger Schank- Roger Schank

Learner: 2018Learner: 2018Technological

Fluency

Communication … Verbal proficiency

Collaboration … Leadership,

Coordination, Teamwork,

Interpersonal Skills, Relationships

Solve Complex Problems

Creativity

Analytical & Thinking Skills

Gumption … Self-Direction and

Reflection Skills

Initiative and Ambition

Adaptable … Versatile

Inquisitiveness

School work is meaningfulCourses are interesting

School will be important in later life

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Different WorldDifferent World

Technology is only technology to those who were born before it.

We need to prepare students for THEIR future not ours.

Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it in,” and start saying “Publish It.”

We have moved from “know what” learning to “know where” learning.

The largest number of podcasts in education are about podcasts in education.

We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living.

If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.

The challenge posed by a changingeconomy is not to teach new subjects,but to teach all subjects so that studentsdevelop complex understanding andcommunication skills. Young peoplewill need these complex skills tosucceed

Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane

We increasingly see that the 21st century skills most in demand are those that require

"expert thinking" and "complex communication,“

used to conveying not just information but a particular interpretation of information.

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Integrating Careers and AcademicsIntegrating Careers and Academics

Strategic Coherence and Strategic Coherence and Structural IntegrityStructural Integrity Adopt integrated core content

standards with CTE Career Cluster Pathways utilizing the 21st Century skills as the organizing principle.

Create an integrated system of assessments for each of the career clusters, the tested academic content areas and the 21st Century Profiles that provide both state/federal accountability and career-readiness certification.

Reviewing StandardsReviewing Standards

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Career and Technical Education

Competencies/ Career Cluster Knowledge and

Skills

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21st Century Skills

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AcademicIndicators

Key Key PointsPoints of Kansas of Kansas ImplementationImplementation

WHAT? Every student will follow a pathway that leads to collage and career success.

HOW? Through seamless programs of study fostering academic and technical achievement.

WHY? To develop a globally competitive workforce for Kansas.

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“Not everything that can be counted counts,

And not everything that counts can be counted.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

2121stst Century Learning Century LearningPromoting Integration

and Re-design

QuestioQuestionsns

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Hesiod, c. 700 B.C.