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Expert Q&A | Shawn A-in-chut Atleo Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. |
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The Case Against 21st-Century Schools A rather ominous worldwide 21st-century education movement that promotes so-called “21st-century schools” shows the pitfalls of worshipping at the altar of technology, writes Paul W. Bennett. |
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Action Research: From Knowledge Keeper to Knowledge Seeker Of all types of professional learning commonly available to teachers, Action Research, a process of reflective inquiry intended to enhance teacher practice and improve student learning, is one of the most powerful, writes Leanne Foster. |
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New Literacies Online Guide Dialogue Online’s list of educational resources will help you become familiar with social networks and online spaces. |
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Expert Q&A | David Suzuki David Suzuki shares his message on the urgency of protecting the planet — now. |
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Open House Discussion: How Are New Literacies Taught at Your School? Dialogue asks educators and experts their views on teaching new literacies and 21st-century skills in schools. |
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In a Harkness Classroom, Students Are Masters of Their Learning Learn the benefits, challenges and strategies of Harkness or other conversational learning methods in the classroom. |
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In Pursuit of Privacy in the Digital World Now, more than ever, teachers need to help students balance public, virtual space with personal space in the classroom. |
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The Freedom to Learn in the Conceptual Age of Schooling As we move into what is being called the “creative” or “conceptual” age, success in a few narrow core subjects will no longer prepare students for this world. Learning and thinking must be considered subjects in and of themselves if we are to adequately prepare students for their futures. |
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From the Editor: Join the Dialogue, Understand a Daunting Concept The 2011 issue of Dialogue explores 21st-century teaching and learning through new literacies and skills students need in an increasingly knowledge-based and interconnected world. |
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In ‘Cafeteria-Style’ Schools, a Search for Connection The modern information-rich age is now showing us how collective and even simultaneous knowledge is by its very nature. Not surprisingly then, a small group of educational theorists are advocating a review of teaching methodologies and classroom arrangements in order to retrieve a natural yet seemingly lost component of learning: connection. |
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession By Daniel J. Levitin 336 pp, Penguin Group, New York, New York, 2007 What if there was a free drug, with no threat of addiction, that could make students learn to read and write faster? What if the drug’s side effects were an [...] |
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21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times By Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel 240 pp, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, 2009 One of the best summaries so far of 21st-century skills for educators and parents is in Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel’s new book, 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. As [...] |
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Intercultural Studies: Through the Cultural Looking Glass “The most important thing I learned in this course is what ethnocentric means because that was me. Everyone has a culture and we all think our culture is the best. . . . but (now) I know there are many cultures and many ways to look at the world.” —Grade 9 student course evaluation Living [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Drew Dudley What key 21st-century skills or new literacies can better prepare youth for the future? I think the key thing we need to do is cultivate a belief in our young people that they can be extraordinary based on what they’re great at and love to do, not if they learn to do what “the market” [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Michael Zwaagstra What 21st-century skills can better prepare students for the future? The most important 21st-century skills that our students need are solid background knowledge about the world around them, good reading and writing skills, and an understanding of basic mathematics. Of course, these are skills that were essential in the 20th and 19th centuries as well. [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Alex Sarian How can arts education help better prepare students for the future? Well, there are two different things: There is arts education and there is arts integration. Arts education certainly lends itself to kids developing (creative and artistic) skills, but I think arts integration is really where those two things come together. Having a space for [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Gwen Colman What new literacies will better prepare students for the future? With the Genuine Progress Index, the measurements we do on educational attainment are about what makes an educated person. So that’s beyond just being in school, and it goes beyond the standardized testing and school dropout rates that are usually measured to show whether education [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Daniel R. Woolf What key skills or new literacies will today’s students need in order to prepare them for higher education and for success in the future? Students need to develop cultural awareness and relationship-building skills that help them work and learn with people from various backgrounds. They need to demonstrate initiative, a commitment to community and an [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Marie Battiste What 21st-century skills can better prepare youth for the future as leaders, innovators and other positive role models in society? Future leaders will need to have: • Multiple literacies (verbal, written, artistic and technological) • Multiple or at minimum two languages (two official and one indigenous), and understanding of more than one knowledge system as [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Cary List What skills or literacies will today’s students need to prepare them for the future? Most importantly, to excel, I believe that students should have a respectful relationship with money. They should have a solid understanding of budgeting, debt and credit, and should understand the impact that today’s financial decisions may have on tomorrow. An awareness [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Sherry Turkle What key 21st-century skills can better prepare students for the future? More than anything, students need to know how to think synthetically, analytically and critically, understanding the difference between the real and simulated worlds. They need to understand how simulations are built, and their strengths and limitations. One way to do this is to teach [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Samuel G. Freedman What skills or qualities must a teacher possess to be a positive role model in the 21st century? I don’t think there is anything so unique or brand new about what it takes to be a great teacher. It’s high standards that you yourself have to exemplify, relentless work ethic and a really deep concern [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Karyn Gordon What key 21st-century skills can better prepare youth for the future? One of the main things we’re finding is that what we really need to do is to put more focus on developing what’s called emotional intelligence, commonly referred to as EQ (emotional quotient), involving recognizing, understanding and managing emotions and feelings. Self-discipline, or delaying [...] |
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When Math Success Adds Up at Home Mathematics education is constantly changing. In previous generations, it has focused on arithmetic and procedural understanding. Today, educators need to prepare students for a world in which jobs haven’t been developed yet, using technologies that haven’t been invented yet in order to solve problems that we don’t know yet exist, says educator Karl Fisch in [...] |
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Reaching All Learners in Mathematics Believe it or not, it’s “mission possible.” Jeff Adams and Michael Ruscitti of the Crescent School reveal what it takes to change the negative perception about math and make it enjoyable for all. |
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Raising the Piggy Bank Generation A major development is happening in the curriculum of Ontario schools, and the timing could not have been too soon. The Ontario Ministry of Education has announced that financial literacy will be required curricula for Grade 4 to 12 students in the entire province by September 2011. The ministry is now reviewing a report on [...] |
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The Undervalued Art of Public Speech According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” With those words from his TV show, Jerry Seinfeld may [...] |
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Goodbye Essay, Hello Podcast One of the greatest conflicts between new and old literacies is many educators’ continuing belief that students’ analytical skills are not properly developed through the use of new media. There is some justification for this: Many student-created new media works are simplistic mishmashes of audio and video clips with no thesis or rationale. New media [...] |
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The Death of Creative Literacy u r 2 dum 4 me 2 c The spelling’s atrocious, the grammar’s non-existent, and there is no punctuation, period. But it’s a real text message, ending a very real relationship. Don’t ask me how I know. Welcome to our 21st century, the beginning of creative literacy’s death. William Shakespeare saw it coming. In 1602, [...] |
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The Future Belongs to Educators Who Shift ”The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” —Alvin Toffler, writer and futurist Many factors have converged over the last 10 to 15 years to create a vastly different society, one that is technology and information driven, global in scope, [...] |
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Redefining Literacy in the 21st Century As educators today, we are facing one of our biggest challenges: In an increasingly diverse, globalized and connected world, where it is difficult to know exactly what it will look like in 50 years, much less five years, how do we help students develop new literacy skills required for the future? Consider a recent Grade [...] |
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Amid a Million Voices, Decoding and Mastering Multiple Literacies Good teaching has never occurred within the binary of teacher versus student. We teach them and we learn from them. Simply to view students as empty vessels to be filled robs teacher and student of opportunities to learn from each other and grow together. Good teaching is something you do with students, not something you [...] |
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