This is a nifty graphic showing the skills that kids need in this world. This comes from Edutopia (a magazine I used to get for free, but have dropped now that they want money. It was nice a freebie, but to me, it didn’t seem worth the cash). I like how create and collaborate are just as prominent as the learning that goes on in the classroom.
What do you think?
(See image at Edutopia site)
Peace (in the present and future),
Kevin
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December 8th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
You’d think since Edutopia is published by the George Lucas Foundation, they have enough money to give away a few magazines for goodness sakes! (think Star Wars)
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December 9th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Seems like everyone has a hand out. Have you noticed the new Edublog Supporter? Looks like it’s not a donation now. Maybe I read it wrong, I hope,
Bonnie
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:12 am
The graphic is really, really awesome. Thank you for sharing it. Cooperative structures works within technology, too!
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December 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
[...] Kevin joins us this morning with this epiphany:We were sitting there in the two hour session, hammering out a conversion of our report card system to one that is standards-based, when it dawned on me that very few of the things that I value in my work with students — multi-modal composition, connecting with the world, cooperative group projects, creative vision, social action — would end up being reflected in this new report card (nor is it reflected in the old report card, either). Check out this cool graphic from Edutopia that Kevin’s shared in his latest post. [...]