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Understanding and Building
TECH 21 | Brownsville ISD |Oct. 2, 2010
21st CENTURY SKILLS
Monica Isabel MartinezDirector of Professional Development512-450-5410 or [email protected]@tcea or @mimg1225
Identify and discuss relevant 21st Century Skills as defined by Tony Wagner, ISTE and Partnership for 21st Century.
Align Web 2.0 Applications to relevant 21st Century Skills.
Morning Session (8:30 AM – 11:30 PM)Introduction & OverviewDefining 21st Century SkillsAlign Web 2.0 Tools to 21st Century Literacies
Lunch Break (11:30 AM – 12:30PM)
Afternoon Session (12:30PM - 3:30PM)Defining 21st Century SkillsAlign Web 2.0 Tools to 21st Century LiteraciesReflection and Plan of Action
Nicenet- 21st Century Educationwww.nicenet.org
Class Key: N280286A40
What types of skills is the learner illustrating in this video?
K en R obinson
What does it mean to be well educated in the 21st century?
What should teaching and learning look like in the 21st century?
OBJECTIVE 1:
Identify and discuss relevant 21st century skills
21st CenturyLITERACIESShould educators teach students what to think or how to think?
-Thinking critically and making judgments about content
-Solving complex, multidisciplinary, open-ended problems that all workers, in every kind of workplace
-Creativity and entrepreneurial thinking
-Communicating and collaborating with teams of people across cultural, geographic and language boundaries
-Making innovative use of knowledge, information and opportunities to create new services, processes and products.
-Taking charge of financial, health and civic responsibilities and making wise choices.
-Creativity and Innovation
-Communication and Collaboration
-Research and Information Fluency
-Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
-Digital Citizenship
-Technology Operations and Concepts
-Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
-Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by -Influence
-Agility and Adaptability
-Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
-Effective Oral and Written Communication
-Accessing and Analyzing Information
-Curiosity and Imagination By: Tony Wagner
• ACTIVITY:• The Story of Chicken Little• http://eleaston.com/chicken.html
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• ACTIVITY:• The Story of Chicken Little• http://eleaston.com/chicken.html
• 1-Should the other animals have trusted Chicken Little, and how could they have determined her reliability.
• 2-Did the eventual decision of a whole group of animals that the sky is falling make Chicken Little more believable than when she was alone in her conviction?
• 3-What factors would make the group's claim more compelling than Chicken Little's alone?
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• GROUP ACTIVITY:• 1-Read slides 17 – 21.• 2-In your own words, define critical thinking in 140
characters or less.• 3-Post your groups response to:• Nicenet site• 4-Review your peers responses
•
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Ask good questions• Deal with vast amounts of information • Figure out what’s important and what’s not• Decide what’s accurate and what’s not• Have a plan of action• Do things that haven’t been done before
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
"The idea that a company's senior leaders have all the answers and can solve problems by themselves has gone completely by the wayside...The person who's close to the work has to have strong analytic skills. You have to be rigorous: test your assumptions, don't take things at face value, don't go in with preconceived ideas that you're trying to prove." - Ellen Kumata, consultant to Fortune 200 companies
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
“First and foremost, I look for someone who asks good questions,” Parker responded. “We can teach them the technical stuff, but we can't teach them how to ask good questions—how to think.”Clay Parker, president of the Chemical Management Division of BOC Edwards
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
To compete in the new global economy, companies need their workers to think about how to continuously improve their products, processes, or services. Over and over, executives told me that the heart of critical thinking and problem solving is the ability to ask the right questions. As one senior executive from Dell said, “Yesterday's answers won't solve today's problems.”
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Ellen Kumata, managing partner at Cambria Associates, explained the extraordinary pressures on leaders today. “The challenge is this: How do you do things that haven't been done before, where you have to rethink or think anew? It's not incremental improvement any more. The markets are changing too fast.”
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
CLASSROOM SOLUTION:Ask our students to be the ones who question-- not just the ones who answer.
In the words of one student: “Miss, if you already know the answer, why do you keep asking us the question?
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Activity:1-What types of activities would allow learners to go through the Five Step Problem Solving Strategy? Identify three Web 2.0 tools.http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/407.htm 2-How can you assess critical thinking? Design a rubric for one Web 2.0 tool.http://www.criticalthinking.com/company/articles/assessing-critical-thinking.jsp 3-How can a lesson be structured to provide opportunities to master 21st century skills? Post response on http://www.todaysmeet.com/21centuryskillsRead the article: Infusing Teaching Thinking Into Subject-Area InstructionVisit: http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edcreative.htm Added:
http://www.slideshare.nethttp://www.dropbox.comhttp://www.picturetrail.com
Math Problem
The lessons provide the teacher with a systematic approach to introducing logical problem solving.
Grades 3 – 4 and up
O Free Educational Resourcesº Standards-based lesson plansº Student & Teacher Materials
– Online– Interactive– Offline (printable)
º Partner-reviewed Web links
O Free Literacy Resourcesº For literacy instructorsº For literacy program staffº For community members º For adults and early childhood
learners
Soccer Problem
This student interactive, from an Illuminations lesson, allows students to investigate a soccer problem by changing the location of a soccer player.
Grades 9 - 12
Number Cruncher
This tool, created by Science NetLinks, challenges students to consider mathematical equations to get from one number to another in a math maze.3 - 8
There are over 800 universities with active iTunes U sites. Nearly half of these institutions — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and UC Berkeley — distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store. In addition, cultural and education institutions such as the Library of Congress, public broadcasting, and state departments of education also contribute to this growing educational content repository which now includes over 325,000 free lectures, audiobooks, lesson plans, and more.
QUEST: Science and NatureKQED
Ask a BiologistArizona IDEAL
Teaching MathematicsVirginia Department of Education
Lit2GoUniversity of South Florida
Three Countries You Ought to Know AboutVirginia Department of Education
Sample Resources available for both K12 and HIED on iTunes U include:
Roy's Writing ToolsPoynter Institute
Edutopia
The Library of Congress
MIT OpenCourseware
UC Berkeley
Wired Study TipsTexas A&M
Where can I find an eBook?
Types of eBooks:Academic-Law-History-Mathematics-Literature-Health Sciences-Business-Psychology-Engineering-Physics-Sociology-Computer Science-Philosophy
FictionNon-Fiction
- Search by Title, Author, ISBN, or Keyword-Mailing List & Alerts-Different book formats-Preview, Reviews, Chat-Free excerpts
www.ebooks.com
-Over 1 million titles-Sharing capabilities (Lend Me)-Nook-eReader for iPhone, iTouch, iPad, BlackBerry, PC and MAC-Public Domain books powered by Google-Free eBooks
www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks
Bibles & Bible StudiesBiography & MemoirBusiness/Personal FinancesChildren's eBooksCookbooksFictionHistoryNew Age & InspirationNonfictionPolitics & Current AffairsReferenceReligionRomanceSci Fi & FantasyScience & NatureSelf-HelpSportsTeen FictionTeens & KidsThrillers, Mystery & CrimeTravelTrue Crime
Turn your book into a high quality e-book with publishing service or contribute to the collection of public domain titles.
Dedicated devices:Amazon Kindle 1/2/DXSony Reader (PRS-500, PRS-505 & PRS-700)Bookeen Cybook (Gen 3)iRex (iLiad & Digital Reader)www.feedbooks.com
AdventureBiographyCollectionsCrime/MysteryEssayFantasyGhost StoriesGothicHistoryHorrorHumor/SatireNon-FictionNovelsPhilosophyPlaysPoetryPoliticsPsychologyReligionRomanceScienceScience FictionSexualityShort FictionThrillerTravelWarWesternYoung Readers
Mobile Platforms:iPhone & iPod TouchAndroid platformWindows Mobile / Symbian / Blackberry / PalmOSOther Linux-based platforms
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device.
Types:-Audio Books-Text Books
Browse subjectsBusiness & EconomicsCookingComputersCurrent EventsFamily & RelationshipsGamesGardeningHealth & FitnessHouse & HomeHumorLawLiterary CollectionsLiterary CriticismLiterary Criticism & CollectionsMathematicsMedicalNon-ClassifiableBody, Mind & SpiritPerforming ArtsPetsPhilosophyPhotographyPoetryPolitical SciencePsychologyPsychology & PsychiatryReligionSelf-HelpSocial ScienceTechnology & EngineeringTechnologyTransportationTravel
http://books.google.com/books
http://www.coursesmart.com/
-Over 10,500 titles-1070 Course Areas across 117 Disciplines-CourseSmart App for the iPhone and iPad-Advanced search & Table of Content Navigation-Copy & Paste to Notes-Email Notes to class-Online viewing and downloadable versions
Categories: (from Accounting to Automotive Technology and from Culinary to ESL)
For a full listing:http://www.coursesmart.com/browse?category=
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, TheMark Twain
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
Uncle RemusJoel Chandler Harris
Through the Looking−GlassLewis Carroll
Tik-Tok of OzL. Frank Baum Adventures of Pinocchio, TheCarlo Collodi
Velveteen Rabbit, TheMargery Williams
Featured Free Books:Anne of Green GablesLucy Maud Montgomery
Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mysterious Island, TheJules Verne
Anne of the IslandLucy Maud Montgomery
From the Earth to the MoonJules Verne
Adventures of Ulysses, TheCharles Lamb
Love and FreindshipJane Austen http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
Audio Owl http://www.audioowl.com/
OverDrivehttp://www.overdrive.com/
Calibre-ebookshttp://calibre-ebook.com/
Bliohttp://www.blioreader.com/
Convert any text file to ePub for the iPadhttp://www.maclife.com/article/feature/converting_files_epub_ipad
epubBookshttp://www.epubbooks.com/
Fictionwisehttp://www.fictionwise.com/
Net Libraryhttp://www.netlibrary.com/
More eBook Sites
Can I create my own eBook?
-Free Story Maker Tool-Registration Required-Requires JAVA-Use StoryJumper art, or upload your own images-Private or public settings
What will your What will your ?book be ?book be
-Basic art libraries for story creation-Online sharingBook publishing. You can order your books as professionally published hardbound volumes starting from $24.95.
www.storyjumper.com
3. Panraven: A nice site for creating, sharing, and purchasing your digital book.http://www.panraven.com/home/homepage.html
4. Book Builder: Site for creating digital books.http://bookbuilder.cast.org/
5. PDF Flash: Upload a PDF to create a professional-looking Flash-based digital book.http://www.pdfflash.com/
6. MyPublisher: Free software that allows users to create colorful photo or digital books.http://www.mypublisher.com/
7. Tabblo: Create a user account to make digital books with photos.http://www.tabblo.com/studio
8. SmileBooks: Create beautiful storybooks online or download their software to store on your hard drive.http://www.smilebooks.com/
9. Blurb: Site for making photo books to order.http://www.blurb.com/
10. Lulu: Create print or ebooks with this user-friendly site.http://www.lulu.com/
1. Mixbook: The best site for creating a book to either share with others digitally or order in the form of hard copy. Also, educators can create student accounts for better management.http://www.mixbook.com/edu
2. BookRix: One of the best sites for advertising your digital book; very user-friendly, and a nice social environment.http://www.bookrix.com/
What will your book What will your book?be?be
Questions
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
• GROUP ACTIVITY:• 1-Read slides 33 - 37.• 2-In your own words, define collaboration and
leadership.• 3-In your groups, share your definitions.• 4-Come up with key words based on your individual
groups definition and create a wordle.• www.wordle.net• 5-Screen print and paste in slide 32.
•
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
• Work in teams, both face-to-face and virtually• Make your own decisions• Ability to influence the people around you• Empower others to achieve results and not just
complete tasks• Understand and respect differences among
people• General leadership skills
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
"The biggest problem we have in the company as a whole is finding people capable of exerting leadership across the board...Our mantra is that you lead by influence, rather than authority." - Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Cisco
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
Teamwork is no longer just about working with others in your building. Christie Pedra, CEO of Siemens, explained, “Technology has allowed for virtual teams. We have teams working on major infrastructure projects that are all over the U.S. On other projects, you're working with people all around the world on solving a software problem. Every week they're on a variety of conference calls; they're doing Web casts; they're doing net meetings.”
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
Mike Summers, vice president for Global Talent Management at Dell, said that his greatest concern was young people's lack of leadership skills. “Kids just out of school have an amazing lack of preparedness in general leadership skills and collaborative skills,” he explained. “They lack the ability to influence.”
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading
by Influence:Student View
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
Activity:1-What types of projects can encourage collaborating with others that are geographically in different places? Find one project.-Global Education On a Dime: A Low-Cost Way to Connect: http://www.edutopia.org/global-education-international-exchange -Harris Burdick Project: http://classroombooktalk.wikispaces.com/Mysteries+of+Harris+Burdick 2-Name some examples of good leaders that lead by influence? What characteristics do they have in common?Internet researchPost to TodaysMeet
21st Century Skills:-Communication-Collaboration
Web 2.0 Tools:-Google Docs-Skype-Email-Wikispaces-VoiceThread
Equipment:-Webcam-Microphone-Computers w/Internet
Writing Project-Classroom Book Talk-14 classes from around the world paired up-Students (ages 6 – 12)-Collaboratively write stories related to photographs
“They also learned how to communicate effectively with students who were not sitting right next to them. Collaboration was a key skill learned during this project.”
21st Century Skills:-Collaboration-Critical Thinking-Assessing/Analyzing Data
Web 2.0 Tools-Spreadsheets-Conversion Calculators-Query tools-Research
Equipment:-Computer w/Internet-Photo/Video equipment**Optional
Water Project (The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education)
-Grades 4 - 8-1 week Internet-based collaborative project-Students share information about water usage with other students from around the country and the world
-Student Publish data
21st Century Skills:-Communication-Collaboration-Solving complex, multidisciplinary, open-ended problems -Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Global Education-All grade levels-Language Arts, Science and Environments, Culture and Society
Global Collaborative DigiTeen-Secondary-Teachers and students blog and share ideas on Global Citizenship and Technological Trends-Students teaching digital citizenship
21st Century Skills:-Collaboration-Critical Thinking-Digital Citizenship
Web 2.0 Tools-Google Docs-Wiki-NING
Equipment:-Computer w/Internet-Photo/Video equipment**Optional
Global Collaborative Classrooms -All levels-200 Countries-Ongoing global projects-Start your own project
Features:-Email -Blogging-Connections w/Classrooms-Collaborative Projects-Resources
1-User registration needed2- Private, Public, or Shared3-FREE4-iPhone App (for retrieve/search and offline searches5-Multiple data backups6-Annotated link: to share pages w/non-diigo users
Share1-RSS, Twitter, Facebook, and Widgets2-Follow/Followed3-Annotated Links4-Blog
Collaborate1- Create a private or public group for your company, class, and team2-Group Sticky Notes3-Group Forum4-Group Tag
http://www.mindmeister.com/
1-Requires registration2-FREE (3 mind maps)3-Real-time brainstorming4-Mobile Access (app)5-Mind Map features:notes, hyperlinks, history, and share/collaborate
http://voicethread.com/#home
1-Free2-Requires registration3-Can post comments via text,phone, webcam, upload an audio comment, and mic4-White board feature
Questions
http://calculationnation.nctm.org/
Agility and Adaptability
• Able to work when the right answer isn’t there or when there isn’t a right answer
• Adapt to constant change• Work with disruptions• Use a variety of tools (not just one) to solve new
problems
Agility and Adaptability
Clay Parker explained that anyone who works at BOC Edwards today “has to think, be flexible, change, and use a variety of tools to solve new problems. We change what we do all the time. I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills.”
Agility and Adaptability
"I've been here four years, and we've done fundamental reorganization every year because of changes in the business...I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills." – Clay Parker, President of Chemical Management Division of BOC Edwards
Agility and Adaptability:Student View
Agility and Adaptability:
Activity: 1-How can schools best prepare students to succeed in the first decades of the 21st century where agility and adaptability are crucial skills for career success? Read article: Learning for the 21st Century 2-What types of activities would allow students to master these skills?Internet Research:-Simulation Games
-Sim City-World of WarCraft-Second Life
Questions
Morning Session (8:30 AM – 11:30 PM)Introduction & OverviewDefining 21st Century SkillsAlign Web 2.0 Tools to 21st Century Literacies
Lunch Break (11:30 AM – 12:30PM)
Afternoon Session (12:30PM - 3:30PM)Defining 21st Century SkillsAlign Web 2.0 Tools to 21st Century LiteraciesReflection and Plan of Action
Effective Oral and Written Communication
• -Clear and concise writing, speaking, and presenting with focus, energy, and passion
• -Ability to persuade others• -Know how and when to use different levels of
communication• -Ability to provide “elevator speeches”• -Presentation skills
http://todaysmeet.com/
http://twitter.com/
http://doingtext.com/
1-Free or $2-Does not require registration3-Download as PDF, .txt, XML4-Edits are saved; color coded entries5-Login saves content6-Email7-Mobile device access8-News Feed/RSS9-Set Privacy Settings
http://writeboard.com/
1-Free2-Does not require registration3-Invite others via email4-Edits are saved5-Export to .txt or HTML
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Activity:1-Read slides 54 – 57 individually.2-As a group select which tool you will use to post your comments. Everyone in your group should have their own post. 3-Post a response to the question: How can blogs, email, texting help learners master written communication?
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Mike Summers of Dell said, “We are routinely surprised at the difficulty some young people have in communicating: verbal skills, written skills, presentation skills. They have difficulty being clear and concise; it's hard for them to create focus, energy, and passion around the points they want to make. If you're talking to an exec, the first thing you'll get asked if you haven't made it perfectly clear in the first 60 seconds of your presentation is, ‘What do you want me to take away from this meeting?’ They don't know how to answer that question.”
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Summers and other leaders from various companies were not necessarily complaining about young people's poor grammar, punctuation, or spelling—the things we spend so much time teaching and testing in our schools. Although writing and speaking correctly are obviously important, the complaints I heard most frequently were about fuzzy thinking and young people not knowing how to write with a real voice.
Effective Oral and Written Communication
"The biggest skill people are missing is the ability to communicate: both written and oral presentations. It's a huge problem for us." - Annmarie Neal, Vice President for Talent Management at Cisco Systems
Effective Oral and Written Communication: Student View
Questions
1-No user registration needed (saves w/login)2-FREE3-Requires standard web access4-Facts are organized into a table5-Aggregates information via Google
*Customizable data results
Accessing and Analyzing Information:
Student View
• Watch the Bing video here.• Bing TV Commercial - The Cure for Search
Overload Syndrome -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIxfk3hS0uU&feature=related
Accessing and Analyzing Information
• Find, evaluate, and synthesize information• Use information from a variety of sources
(web pages, magazines, podcasts, TV, face-to-face interviews and discussions, videos, surveys, books, etc.)
• Understand how rapidly information is changing and be able to deal with that
Accessing and Analyzing Information
"There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren't prepared to process the information effectively, it almost freezes them in their steps." - Mike Summers, Vice President for Global Talent Management at Dell
Accessing and Analyzing Information
Employees in the 21st century have to manage an astronomical amount of information daily. As Mike Summers told me, “There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren't prepared to process the information effectively it almost freezes them in their steps.”
Accessing and Analyzing Information
It's not only the sheer quantity of information that represents a challenge, but also how rapidly the information is changing. Quick—how many planets are there? In the early 1990s, I heard then–Harvard University president Neil Rudenstine say in a speech that the half-life of knowledge in the humanities is 10 years, and in math and science, it's only two or three years. I wonder what he would say it is today.
Accessing and Analyzing Information:Student View
Accessing and Analyzing Information:Activity:1-What important questions need to be asked about web content?Your Guide To Online Learning: http://www.econcordia.com/courses/study_skills/lesson6/061.aspx 2-How can the learner improve their research and information gathering skills?http://www.edutopia.org/personal-learning-networks-technology 3-What tools can a learner use to practice assessing and analyzing web content?Internet research-Wonder Wheel, Advanced Google, Snoople, Ask 4 Kids Videos to watch:BING Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w4W7fQHgYwBING Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIxfk3hS0uU&feature=relatedBING Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0f8X_SOVjA&feature=channel
http://www.askkids.com/
www.wolframalpha.com
1-No user registration needed2-FREE3-Computational Knowledge Engine4-Requires standard web connectivity, web browser, and JAVA.5-Suitable for all levels
*Search engines give you links to pages that exist on the web.WolframAlpha computes answers to specific questions using its built-inknowledge base and algorithms.
http://taggalaxy.de/
1-No user registration needed2-FREE3-Uses Papervision3D to explore Flickr photos via virtual planetary systems.4-Requires standard web connectivity, web browser, and JAVA.5-Data not screened; may not be suitable for all levels
*Outputs visual results that are easierto sift through.
Questions
1-Account required to save and retrieve2-Graphic templates3-FREE4-Private or Public5-Requires JAVA/Flash6-Comments/View
1-No account required2-FREE3-User friendly tools4-Email or print comic5-Does not save
Curiosity and Imagination• Ability to continually ask great questions• Never be satisfied with the status quo• Search for unique solutions• Ask “What if…?”• Dream• Ability to develop unique products and
services• Empathy
Curiosity and Imagination
"Our old idea is that work is defined by employers and that employees have to do whatever the employer wants...but actually, you would like him to come up with an interpretation that you like-he's adding something personal-a creative element." - Michael Jung, Senior Consultant at McKinsey and Company
Curiosity and Imagination
Mike Summers told me, “People who've learned to ask great questions and have learned to be inquisitive are the ones who move the fastest in our environment because they solve the biggest problems in ways that have the most impact on innovation.”
Curiosity and Imagination
Daniel Pink, the author of A Whole New Mind, observes that with increasing abundance, people want unique products and services: “For businesses it's no longer enough to create a product that's reasonably priced and adequately functional. It must also be beautiful, unique, and meaningful.”1 Pink notes that developing young people's capacities for imagination, creativity, and empathy will be increasingly important for maintaining the United States' competitive advantage in the future.
Curiosity and Imagination: Student View
Curiosity and Imagination: Student View
• Watch the “Think Different” video here.• Apple Think Different -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcYyivv9AI
Curiosity and ImaginationActivity:1-What does creativity have to do with education?http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html 2-What value do the arts have in becoming life-long learners?Arts in Schools http://www.keepartsinschools.org/Interviews/SarahMurr.php 3-What types of activities would allow students to master these skills?Internet Research
http://www.imaginationcubed.com/
http://www.dabbleboard.com
http://www.pikikids.com/
Questions
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
• Proactive, self-starters• Create your own answers and solutions• Actively look for ways to improve the
systems around you• Not be afraid to try and fail• Understand that continuous success may
mean you’re not reaching high enough or far enough
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
"For our production and crafts staff, the hourly workers, we need self-directed people...who can find creative solutions to some very tough, challenging problems.“- Mark Maddox, Human Resources Manager at Unilever Foods North America
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel at Cisco, was one of the strongest proponents of initiative: “I say to my employees, if you try five things and get all five of them right, you may be failing. If you try 10 things, and get eight of them right, you're a hero. You'll never be blamed for failing to reach a stretch goal, but you will be blamed for not trying. One of the problems of a large company is risk aversion. Our challenge is how to create an entrepreneurial culture in a larger organization.”
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism:Student View
Initiative and EntrepreneurialismActivity:1-What does creativity have to do with education?http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html 2-What value do the arts have in becoming life-long learners?Arts in Schools http://www.keepartsinschools.org/Interviews/SarahMurr.php 3-What types of activities would allow students to master these skills?Internet Research
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/
1 - Free2 - No registration required3 - You control characters/objects4 - Creates sentences for you5 - Share story with othersand/or print out story
1-Account required for creator2-Email invite to view3-FREE4-Private or Public5-Image upload6-Audio capabilities
1-User registration needed(must be over 13)2-FREE3-Private or Public posting5-Draw or browse art6-Create animations or usepreanimated work7-Browse shared animations
Questions
What does “The World is Flat” mean for education?http://www.edutopia.org/what-does-world-flat-mean-education