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Establish a education vision statement that combines trends, students' info-experience, & a prevailing digi-networked information landscape. Tag with bigideas4education1 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Rewrite standards to more accurately reflect today's environment, our students needs & unique capabilities, and their future. Tag with bigideas4education2 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Establish new methods and structures for improving community communication. Tag with bigideas4education3 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Overhaul teacher education, and policies and procedures for professional development. Tag with bigideas4education4 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Facilitate an exploration of new education methods and pedagogies that reflect today's children and their information experiences, abundant and connective information environments, and 21st century skills. Tag with bigideas4education5 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Restructure the school environment including grades, school day/year schedule, building (or lack there of), information infrastructure, roles & rules, staffing, governance, and choice. Tag with bigideas4education6 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Commit to funding that is adequate to true education reform that reflects today's rapidly changing world, our students' info-experiences, and a dramatically new information landscape. Tag with bigideas4education7 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Overhaul state and national assessment policies and procedures. Tag with bigideas4education8 • View Related Blog Articles |
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Phase 1
Spend about two-and-a-half days composing and posting clear and succinct (140 character limit) priority actions for a U.S. Ed Department aimed at promoting and empowering a system that better prepares todayfs children for their future.
Phase 2
The submitted statements will be linked together according to topic, reducing the final list to no more than twenty basic action statements -- if possible.
Phase 3
Instructions
Calling educator bloggers to think about the topics on the left and the substatements, and and then talk about them in your blogs. If education is going to face forward, it will be because forward thinking people are telling new stories.
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Phase 4
A Facility will be added that enables us to prioritize the action statements in order of importance and sequence. Comments will be collected.
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