Heidi+Hayes+Jacobs


 * Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Essential Education for a Changing World**
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 * **Essential Questions:**
 * How can we prepare our learners for their future?
 * Who owns the learning? (Alan November's question)
 * **A challenge:** Look at your schedule, your curriculum, your assessments, what is on the walls (the artifacts): If an anthropologist came to your school, what year would they think your school was preparing kids for?


 * Research means to search again. Give kids a reason to search again by engaging them with questions and by piquing curiosity.


 * School structures need to change (New School Versions)
 * Schedule--short term and long term
 * Student Grouping Patterns
 * Teacher Configurations
 * Space


 * Students process information differently now
 * Social production
 * Social networks
 * Semantic Web
 * Media Grids (more forms and ways to allow students to share learning and experiences)
 * Non-linear Learning
 * Digital Literacy
 * choosing the right web 2.0 tools
 * Media Literacy
 * ability to be a critical responder to media
 * need to be able to create QUALITY media
 * Global Literacy
 * Two-Tier Model for Curriculum 21 Teams
 * Short Term Upgrades
 * Don't use tech as bells and whistles--use it when it truly raises engagement and learning levels
 * Long Term Visioning

Resources:
 * Basic Elements in Designing Curriculum
 * Content
 * Skills
 * Assessment

[]: exciting new way to search images around a topic []: computational knowledge engine (great for statistics)