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Skills vs Content

Taught entire year of history based on 5 questions. What does it mean when you say "getting our kids prepared for the world for which they live"?

Workplace Tasks and Skills
 * Increased demand for complex communication - you can explain an idea in complex environments - online sychronous- asychronously multiple modalites
 * Expert thinking - ability to identify a new problem and be able to solve new problems.

To what extent is America the land of opportunity? What is the proper role of govt in the lives of Americans? What is the proper relationship between the federal government and it's citizen? What is the problem of race in the America?

The school built their own reader.

Curriculum Drives Technology Digital Equivalency - we're going through a communication revolution - multi-modality in your text - literacy is no longer defined in the linear sense it have many layers. How long before you need a digital portfolio and digital resume? 2 years? Future of research is digital. Social networks and connected Technology is in the hands of the user.

C-R-C-D Framework
 * Collect - research
 * Relate - collaborate
 * Create - to learn
 * Donate - to others

If you can't search in the 21st century, you don't know how to read.....searching and critical thinking skills are just as important as reading. the importance of keywords, domains, searches.

Build small group activities and individual activities for assessment.

Using a Blog or Wiki Homework is posted on the blog. Each night, one student will define the vocabulary words for the class. Use of wiki creates interdependency and this space becomes your student guide for the end of the year. pbworks.com wetpaint.com wikispaces.com

Print & Online Gale Databases - proquest Attribution and copyright