Thanks to technology the world is getting smaller and the pace of social evolution is moving at increasingly faster speeds. What does this mean for educators? Simply that we can no longer do our jobs the same ways in which we have done them before. We Can no longer teach students from the perspective of empty vessels that must be filled with the knowledge we give them. We must teach students to tap into their own internal genius; we must give them skills that they can use creatively to solve complex problems. We are now training students for jobs that do not even yet exist.
Here's a couple more links/sources that might make you reconsider the education system as we currently know it
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
Books:
The following are some additional resources and study results that challenge you to question hierarchy and separation that are so fundamental in Western education and thinking
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
aSDS
So instead of detailed content standards being the focus of education, the focus must switch to skills based education...using the content standards as the medium in which to teach such skills as these...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
Books:
- Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System (former assistant secretary of education that pushed for a national curriculum, after seeing the affects that No Child Left Behind has had on education offers new solutions for education as well as provides an enlightening history of the American Education system)
- Dave Burgess's Teach like a Pirate (Techniques on how to teach creatively)
- Chick Moorman'sSpirit Whisperers: Teachers who Nourish a Child's Spirit ("An inspirational and practical guide for teaching from the Heart)
The following are some additional resources and study results that challenge you to question hierarchy and separation that are so fundamental in Western education and thinking
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
aSDS
So instead of detailed content standards being the focus of education, the focus must switch to skills based education...using the content standards as the medium in which to teach such skills as these...
http://www.stancoe.org/SCOE/iss/common_core/21st_century/21st_century_skills.htm
Please click on the following link for more information, standards and definitions for 21st Century Skills:
http://www.p21.org
C3 framework for Social Studies
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/media/file/C3-Framework-for-Social-Studies.pdf
*Since the standards for World History in Kentucky are currently being revamped (and the current standards are out of date to say the least) I have chosen to just include 21st century skills and Nationally Based Common Core standards at this time.
http://www.p21.org
C3 framework for Social Studies
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/media/file/C3-Framework-for-Social-Studies.pdf
*Since the standards for World History in Kentucky are currently being revamped (and the current standards are out of date to say the least) I have chosen to just include 21st century skills and Nationally Based Common Core standards at this time.