“The leading advocacy organization
infusing 21st century skills into education.”
infusing 21st century skills into education.”
Do they ever. Their vision and mission feels like they actually care about what is going on in the world of education. Many times you hear the governor and state school leaders of your area talking about what they plan to do in order to help your school and teachers out but nothing ever becomes of it. It seems like this is almost too good to be true where you have a company of people who devote time to helping educators do their job with the technology and resources that they need.
It is surprising to me that there are not more states that are involved with this website. This makes me wonder why? I teach in one of the best states or so they say, New York, and why is New York not apart of this partnership?
Confusion sets in for me when it comes to exactly what does the Partnership for the 21st Century (P21) do for you and your school system? I have seen many different exciting and magnificent acknowledgments of the website, but what does the partnership do for you? Do they give you lesson plans or ideas on what you should be teaching or how you should be teaching it?
As educators, we all know that the future is going to be technology based and we need to start teaching our students various ways to make themselves ready for the work world.
P21 foundation furthers the already known; we need to be aware of technological advances and connections between business’ in the community and school are extremely important.
It is surprising to me that there are not more states that are involved with this website. This makes me wonder why? I teach in one of the best states or so they say, New York, and why is New York not apart of this partnership?
Confusion sets in for me when it comes to exactly what does the Partnership for the 21st Century (P21) do for you and your school system? I have seen many different exciting and magnificent acknowledgments of the website, but what does the partnership do for you? Do they give you lesson plans or ideas on what you should be teaching or how you should be teaching it?
As educators, we all know that the future is going to be technology based and we need to start teaching our students various ways to make themselves ready for the work world.
P21 foundation furthers the already known; we need to be aware of technological advances and connections between business’ in the community and school are extremely important.
Don't we already do this without P21?
Creating partnerships …
Implementing technology …
I think that most of our schools already do …
HOWEVER
Creating partnerships …
Implementing technology …
I think that most of our schools already do …
HOWEVER
incorporating P21 would make the process a lot easier and painless!
P21st Mission statement
Serve as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the center of US K-12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders.
Is this too good to be true?
Why isn’t ever state apart of this program?
See for yourself, visit http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php
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Hi Michael,
ReplyDeleteThat is an excellent question! I wonder what the Partnership will do for teachers. It did say that training would be provided to teachers. It also said that we would be given standards for which we would need to develop assessments. Will they provide the poorer districts with more technology and resources?
My state, Pennsylvania, is also not included on the list of participating states. How do we get on the list?
Yeah I think that it might just sound too good to be true. What type of training do they give us teachers and what difference will it make in our teaching styles or practices?
ReplyDeleteIt just sounded a little strange to me!
Michael,
ReplyDeleteYou post was similar to my thoughts on the website. Why are there only certain states involved? We need to figure out how to get our states to buy into this process. What a great idea about them giving us ideas and lessons, but I don't think they will give us anything to aid us its just to fishy. I'm sure they will charge if they come up with anything like that. What do you think? Also do you think P21 will be a hard thing to implement into curriculum?
Trenton