Should Teenagers Expect Privacy on the Internet?
When it comes to social media, teenagers look at privacy in very different ways than the adults around them. Read Full Post >
All Blog Posts With 21st Century Skills Tag or Category
April 27, 2013
April 08, 2013
Will Online Learning Limit Students' Creative Potential?
As more districts and schools move to blended- and online-learning models, will students collaborate less, and thus be less innovative? Read Full Post >
March 26, 2013
Common Core: Mend It; Don't End It
Common Core Standards continue to be a point of debate. We should remember that these standards are what every child should know and be able to do not everything a child should know and be able to do. Read Full Post >
March 19, 2013
Making Sense of Steubenville
As educators, what are we to make of the ongoing tragedy in Steubenville, Ohio - a community in which one teenage girl was raped and publicly humiliated, two teenage boys are being shipped off to juvenile detention, and two other teenage girls are now under arrest after threatening to beat and kill the victim? Read Full Post >
March 16, 2013
Teachers Are Needed to Close Civic Gap
Civic literacy is critical with the wide gaps that exist in voting patterns. Rich people vote 50 points higher than poor people, and it shows in political support for issues important to tackling poverty in this country. Read Full Post >
March 12, 2013
Fire Teachers...Give Kids iPads?
Education and learning is so much more than firing teachers and replacing them with iPads. Read Full Post >
March 03, 2013
Are Your Students Learning Ready?
If students are learning ready, it means they are prepared for every challenge that comes their way. Read Full Post >
February 26, 2013
When It Comes to Education Policy, Should We Give Class Size Another Look?
In A Year at Mission Hill, we see the value of teachers having the space and time to know their students well. Is it time we revisited the power of small class sizes when it comes to education policy? Read Full Post >
February 25, 2013
Researchers and Politicians Agree on 21st-Century Skills
With the National Research Council's recent report on 21st Century skills and deeper learning and the formation of the Congressional 21st Century Skills Caucus, the education and business community are uniting behind this movement to assure students of a relevant and purposeful education. Read Full Post >
January 04, 2013
Latest Curriculum Craze: Making Stuff
A Huffington Post article says that, in a kind of backlash against the test-driven curricula that have prevailed in many schools over the past decade, there's a growing interest among educators and parents in giving kids more hands-on, experiential learning projects. One example of the reported move... Read Full Post >
