This document discusses the need to reimagine and reform schooling to better prepare students for the 21st century. It argues that traditional school focuses too much on rote learning and standardized tests rather than teaching students how to learn, think critically, and apply knowledge. The author advocates for a student-centered model where learning is inquiry-driven, integrated, and relevant to students' lives. Technology should be integrated ubiquitously to transform how students create, research, collaborate and present. Overall, the document calls for embracing new ideas and practices to help students become lifelong learners and problem solvers.
8. Do What You’re Told
Over and over and over again...
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9. Stuff You Might Never Need
... or care about.
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22. If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
- John Cleese
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23. What the school system needs to understand is that its
strength lies, not in the strength of the central organization,
but in the strength of the individual school, not in making one
school like another, but in making each school a distinct unit.
The need of the system is the preservation of its units, so that
each school can keep itself alive, wide awake, responsive to
its people, easily adaptable, the best of its kind.
Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City
24. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
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