This book contains valuable insights, we are all sharing these days. We are all learning lessons in technology every day. What are we going to do about it in the classroom?
UDG - excerptsChapter 2 - Connecting With Students is the Key to Effective TeachingChapter 5 - An Impending TragedyChapter 8 - Teachers Must Move Off The StageChapter 12 - Teachers Must Re-Evaluate Evaluation"...The biggest issue we face in shifting evaluation of students is changing the long-standing mindset that teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and politicians have for what knowledge and skills should be valued in school. Until that issue is dealt with, adults will look at kids today, but not see the skills and knowledge they have. Nor will they see the skills and knowledge these kids will need for their future life. They will continue to focus on the traditional skills that they learned when they were in school because they have served them well. They will continue to use twentieth-century evaluative tools that measure twentieth-century skills and, in doing so, do a terrific job of preparing students for a world that no longer exists. The adults involved in the school system today must open their eyes to the realities of twenty-first-century digital culture and business practice..."
