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Rob McEwen Creativity and Communication The Order of Canada recipient and gold entrepreneur shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
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Juliana Rotich Technology and Innovation Co-founder of revolutionary crowdsourcing web platform Ushahidi shares her thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
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Samuel G. Freedman Curriculum and Teaching Samuel G. Freedman, award-winning author, New York Times columnist and journalism professor, shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
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Michael Zwaagstra Global, Communication & Mathematics Michael Zwaagstra co-authored the book What’s Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them in 2010. His columns promoting common-sense education reform have been published in major daily newspapers such as the National Post, Globe and Mail and Winnipeg Free Press. |
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Karyn Gordon Communication Karyn Gordon is a youth and Generation Y expert, corporate and family consultant, motivational speaker, and author with a mission to empower youth to understand and reach their full potential. She has shared her knowledge, insights and advice with diverse audiences, from corporations and teachers’ conferences to more than 1,000 private and public high schools. |
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Marie Battiste Cross-Cultural & Communication Marie Battiste, a Mi’kmaq educator |
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Gwen Colman Global & Cross-Cultural Gwen Colman is the youth program |
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Daniel R. Woolf Cross-Cultural, Creativity & Communication Daniel Robert Woolf is the principal and vice-chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. A historian and Queen’s alumnus, he had previously served as a history professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. |
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Cary List Finance Cary List is the president and CEO of |
Rob McEwen, Order of Canada recipient and gold entrepreneur, shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
Juliana Rotich, co-founder and executive director of revolutionary crowdsourcing web platform Ushahidi, shares her thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
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.
David Suzuki shares his message on the urgency of protecting the planet — now.
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” [...]
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. [...]
How can schools become more efficient? School leaders should evaluate their board composition and structure. What skill sets will you need in the next five years? Are your committees and task forces the right ones for the needs of the school? A good way to assess objectively one’s board efficiencies is to compare board data [...]
What is one thing everyone can do to help the environment? Each and every time you make a purchase, you have the ability to influence the environment. Buy products that minimize negative environmental impacts. Consider the way a product is manufactured, transported, used, recycled or disposed of. What could a school do to reduce its [...]
How can schools become more efficient? There are only two ways for schools to become more efficient: for teachers to teach more students per class, thus increasing income per salary; for teachers to teach more classes, thus increasing workload per salary. This is still assuming the 20th-century model of one teacher/one class/one classroom/one fixed period [...]
How can independent schools achieve success through pre-eminence? Pre-eminence it is not just about being the best; it is about being recognized as the best. What is your discipline? What is the core your school stands for? The moment I go outside these areas is when I am being less pre-eminent. It is important to [...]
How can independent and private schools be made more financially accessible? In Sweden, there are public (85 per cent market share), independent (13 per cent) and private schools (two per cent). Independent schools are privately owned but financed—in the same way as Sweden’s public schools—by a tax-financed public school voucher (tuition free). All parents are [...]
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| Aboriginal youth are feared to be Canada's lost generation. Read our interview with the Assembly of First Nations national chief at the education ministers' national conference and Expert Q&A section. |
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| Arts educator Alex Sarian wants to do for education what Johnny Depp did for pirates—take a failing system and make it sexy. |
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| By adopting a social media perspective in class, students become like embedded reporters and participate in a more open and accessible history as it unfolds. |
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