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August 24, 2010

Two big shifts (and one big problem) 

• Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
• The status quo no longer suffices: An open letter to the Ames (IA) School Board
• Creating the new paradigm: Educational technology policy priorities
• The Iowa series – Wrap-up
• Notes from India – My TEDx talk
• Many service jobs will become globalized piece work
• Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape?
• Don’t teach your kids this stuff, please? 

Resources

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• CASTLE
• Dangerously Irrelevant
• See the NETS-A, NETS-T, NETS-S, and NCTE 21st century literacies
• Contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators [NOT for public dissemination, please]

Recommended reading

• The Global Achievement Gap
• Curriculum 21
• Disrupting Class
• Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
• 21st Century Skills (Bellanca & Brandt)
• Here Comes Everybody
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• What Would Google Do? 
• Caught in the Middle [if rural]
• Hollowing Out the Middle [if rural]
• Cognitive Surplus
• 21st Century Skills (Trilling & Fadel)
• Tough Choices or Tough Times
• Blown to Bits 
• Everyware 
• Wikinomics 
• A Whole New Mind 
• Born Digital 
• Grown Up Digital  
• Growing Up Digital  
• and more…

Recommended viewing 

• 21st century pedagogy
• Learning to change
• Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
• Information Revolution
• Generation We
• Digital Kids @ Analog Schools
• Welcome to Your World
• We Think
• A Brave New World-Wide Web
• Networked Student
• A View of 21st Century Learners
• Kevin Kelly at TED
• Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF
• Sir Ken Robinson at TED
• Brewster Kahle at TED
• Free Range Learning
• The Human Network
• The Fourth Screen
• The Essay