69 blog reactions to http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/urgent-21st-century-skills-for-educators-and-others-first/

Many people have been blogging about challenge of 21st Century Learning. You can read the ongoing discussions on many blogs. Time Magazine wrote about changing the way we think about education back in 2006. Will Richardson passionately asked the question “how in god’s name can we talk seriously about 21st Century skills for kids if we’re not talking 21st Century skills for educators first?” Denis Harter posed three questions to instigate the discussion about the

‘life online’, but I am still frustrated in my ability to use technology effectively in the classroom. Will Richardson got over 130 comments on this very relevant post about skilling up teachers: Weblogg-ed: 21st Century Skills for Educators. The comments are as interesting as the article. Another post this week, Weblogg-ed: Students Pay a Price (Literally) for Cell Phone Ban, highlights the potential for using technology. The students are ready.

frustration that newcomers to these tools experience. It’s random, seemingly aimless, and requires a whole bunch of other skills to navigate effectively. And now, the conversations are morphing further. There are more voices. While it’s humbling to get 160 comments on a blog post, is it better? Now I have 300 Tweets a day to make sense of, and talk about raising the frustration level. What do you do when a Tweet comes by that say “@whoever45 I am so, so sorry to hear that! What can we do?

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of his subject, but even if I was not responsible for the technological education of Murray students, I would still be screaming from the rooftops that computer literacy needs to be part of any good curriculum. Anyway, here is a link to an blog post about the urgency for computer literacy for teachers

The Resilience of Teacher Culture (featuring Richard Elmore). Here’s what I got: Nathan Lowell quote Here’s my favorite quote (from Nathan Lowell) from all of the comments at Will Richardson’s post regarding 21st century skills for educators: We've spent millions of dollars to equip and wire schools and now that we're discovering just how much we can learn with them, we're spending millions more to prevent the intellectual capitalization that our investment represents.

The Resilience of Teacher Culture (featuring Richard Elmore). Here’s what I got: Nathan Lowell quote Here’s my favorite quote (from Nathan Lowell) from all of the comments at Will Richardson’s post regarding 21st century skills for educators: We've spent millions of dollars to equip and wire schools and now that we're discovering just how much we can learn with them, we're spending millions more to prevent the intellectual capitalization that our investment represents.

Will Richardson’s post about 21st century skills for educators (and presenters). The second was

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