Thomas Foster Kansas Department of Education June 22, 2013

21 st Century Learning Promoting Integration and Re-design

What are we going to do?

Different Jobs

Education that involves doing is engaging. - Roger Schank Learner: 2018 Technological Fluency Communication … Verbal proficiency Collaboration … Leadership, Coordination, Teamwork, Interpersonal Skills, Relationships Solve Complex Problems Creativity Analytical & Thinking Skills Gumption … Self- Direction and Reflection Skills Initiative and Ambition Adaptable … Versatile Inquisitiveness

School work is meaningful Courses are interesting School will be important in later life

Different World

Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. We need to prepare students for THEIR future not ours. Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it in,” and start saying “Publish It.” We have moved from “know what” learning to “know where” learning. The largest number of podcasts in education are about podcasts in education. We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.

The challenge posed by a changing economy is not to teach new subjects, but to teach all subjects so that students develop complex understanding and communication skills. Young people will need these complex skills to succeed Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane

We increasingly see that the 21 st century skills most in demand are those that require "expert thinking" and "complex communication,“ used to conveying not just information but a particular interpretation of information. Ibid

Integrating Careers and Academics

Strategic Coherence and Structural Integrity  Adopt integrated core content standards with CTE Career Cluster Pathways utilizing the 21 st Century skills as the organizing principle.  Create an integrated system of assessments for each of the career clusters, the tested academic content areas and the 21 st Century Profiles that provide both state/federal accountability and career-readiness certification.

Reviewing Standards

16 Career and Technical Education Competencies/ Career Cluster Knowledge and Skills

17 21 st Century Skills

18 Academic Indicators

Key Points of Kansas Implementation WHAT? Every student will follow a pathway that leads to collage and career success. HOW? Through seamless programs of study fostering academic and technical achievement. WHY? To develop a globally competitive workforce for Kansas. 19

“Not everything that can be counted counts, And not everything that counts can be counted. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein

21 st Century Learning Promoting Integration and Re-design Questions

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard. Hesiod, c. 700 B.C.