Perhaps we shouldn’t even file this under the “made common sense awhile ago” category, but Education Week is reporting the following about the 21st Century Skills movement: The phrase “21st-century skills” is everywhere in education policy discussions these days, from faculty lounges to the highest echelons of the U.S. education system. Broadly speaking, it refers…
We use words to attempt to communicate to others what we mean and sometimes we honestly can’t articulate what is in our mind. And, sometimes, we are so excited about what we want to say that we use words that have lost their true meaning. (I remember that I used the word “dork” in a…
And it seems that the 21st Century Skills folk would lead us to believe that by quoting percentages (which are based on surveys) that the truth of the matter has been established. I don’t think so. I stumbled across the 21st Century Skills folk back when I was reading through Indiana’s latest technology plan. I…