Comments on: Help wanted: Model 21st century schools? http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Claus http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html/comment-page-1#comment-10787 Claus Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html#comment-10787 This is an excellent idea. We've done some similar work at www.publicschoolinsights.org, where we've assembled almost 100 stories about successful and innovative public schools and districts. A sample of stories focusing on 21st-century skills and digital technologies: * <a href="http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2003" rel="nofollow">http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2003</a> * <a href="http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2025" rel="nofollow">http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2025</a> * <a href="http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2068" rel="nofollow">http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2068</a> This is an excellent idea. We’ve done some similar work at http://www.publicschoolinsights.org, where we’ve assembled almost 100 stories about successful and innovative public schools and districts.

A sample of stories focusing on 21st-century skills and digital technologies:
* http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2003
* http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2025
* http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/node/2068

]]> By: M.W. http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html/comment-page-1#comment-10788 M.W. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html#comment-10788 I wonder why 1:1 is a category to this wiki. Cash and Technology does not equal good education. It's not the nifty new tools you have, but that they bring to the classroom and how the educator uses them. I wonder why 1:1 is a category to this wiki. Cash and Technology does not equal good education. It’s not the nifty new tools you have, but that they bring to the classroom and how the educator uses them.

]]> By: Scott McLeod http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html/comment-page-1#comment-10789 Scott McLeod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html#comment-10789 @M.W.: Because the world is digital now. Because it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a good-paying job these days that doesn't require regular, ongoing, extensive use of digital technologies. So our schools have to stop pretending that it's still a paper world and go digital too (both students and staff). That's why I put 1:1 as a category... @M.W.: Because the world is digital now. Because it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a good-paying job these days that doesn’t require regular, ongoing, extensive use of digital technologies. So our schools have to stop pretending that it’s still a paper world and go digital too (both students and staff). That’s why I put 1:1 as a category…

]]> By: Andrew B. Watt http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html/comment-page-1#comment-10790 Andrew B. Watt Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/model21stcenturyschools.html#comment-10790 Thanks for making 1:1 a category in your wiki. I have teachers at my school who have decided that they need to teach SCRIPT to students. Script is unrecognizable to every OCR program I have ever come across. Script improves awareness of how words are made of letters, and improves the ability to recognize whole words... but the time it takes to learn is time not spent mastering valuable new skills. I taught myself script at the age of 25, after failing to master it in third grade. Doing so made me a better poet. Yet all of my teaching, all of my writing, all of my freelance work, is now done on computer. I earn the equivalent of an extra month of salary from my freelance writing, and I think that NOT teaching digital technologies, and NOT teaching suitable computer use, is criminal. CRIMINAL. Thanks for making 1:1 a category in your wiki. I have teachers at my school who have decided that they need to teach SCRIPT to students.

Script is unrecognizable to every OCR program I have ever come across. Script improves awareness of how words are made of letters, and improves the ability to recognize whole words… but the time it takes to learn is time not spent mastering valuable new skills.

I taught myself script at the age of 25, after failing to master it in third grade. Doing so made me a better poet. Yet all of my teaching, all of my writing, all of my freelance work, is now done on computer. I earn the equivalent of an extra month of salary from my freelance writing, and I think that NOT teaching digital technologies, and NOT teaching suitable computer use, is criminal.

CRIMINAL.

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