Today's student, Learning and Engagement

Colleagues and Friends

This is a very short post today.... but one I think you'll find to be well worth your time.

If you are interested at all in the state of the various institutions of education and how
relevant (or not) they are, take a look at this 4+ minute video. It is profound. It was
developed by some students at Kansas State.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

After you've seen this, tell me what you think of this statement..... "screw education
reform.... what we need is education/learning revolution"!!!

Be well

jeff

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Innovative Leadership Solutions, Inc.
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21st Century thinking, skills, and communities

Hi folks.....

this was posted to the "Smart Communities" blog.... I think it's well worth the time to look at, if you are at all concerned about our collective abilities to innovate, create, and make our communities viable in the 21st century.

jeff

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Workers for the 21st Century: Imagine That

In a poll released in January by the Arts Education Partnership , Americans say that the worker for the 21st century must be able imagine new products, processes, and concepts. More than half of the respondents say that they would vote for the presidential candidate who supported building these capacities in students. Creativity, the Partnership contends, is developed through the arts and creative approaches to education. This is an important finding as we search in our communities for ways to improve education (note I didn't limit that to schools). There are teaching avenues throughout our communities that could help our children develop their creative bent--museums, community art and design classes, theatre--many more I am sure. The STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math are more likely to lead to innovation if enhanced by the arts advocates contend. It makes sense. If a person can see beyond what is there, then he or she begins to see new possibilities. Charles Kettering, the great American inventor, was once asked the difference between inventors and the rest of us. He replied, "most people think about where they have been; inventors think about where they are going." For more on ways to develop imagination in your public schools visit the imagine website.

full post: http://smartcommunities.typepad.com/suzanne/2008/02/workers-for-the.html

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