I have to be honest, before receiving the blog notification from Dr. Floyd and reading the 21st Century Skills Report, I had never heard of this organization. As I was reading the report I was excited to see that North Carolina is amongst one of the nine states involved in the partnership. I think what they are trying to do here is a wonderful idea, but my excitement was quickly replaced by confusion.
I've said it before and will say it again, I am a digital immigrant and apparently more ignorant than I even knew in regards to the technology world. I am confused because while I read that North Carolina is part of the 21st Century Partnership, had I not read it I would have had no idea. What part(s) of North Carolina are we talking about? Not the part where I teach. I have computers older than my students! I think it is essential that we take measures to build the bridge that I've previously spoken about and I am doing all that I can to educate myself in attempt to better serve my digital natives. However, updated equipment would certainly help.
Oprah praised Bill Gates for taking personal measures and money to equip high schools with state of the art technology and science labs to compete with the rest of the world. What about our elementary and middle schools? A house built on sand isn't very sturdy! We are currently hearing, and have always heard, from politicians about the importance of education and measure they plan to take to see that no child is left behind. What positive changes have you seen? Is the Partnership for 21st Century Skills just more political propaganda?
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I agree. The site is very good and can be very useful if school systems have updated equipment (and enough of it).
I don't believe that the report is political, but let's assume for a moment that the report looks as if it is becoming political propaganda. How can you as a future administrator keep the report from becoming "just more political propaganda"?
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