LESSONS:
SKILLS FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
STRATEGIES / POSSIBLE ITEMS FOR YOUR LEARNING PLAN
RESOURCES
- Real, open, organic, good, healthy
- Giving opportunity
- Recognizing talent (latent?)
- Capitalize on enthusiasm
- Avoid shaming
- Consequences to exercising autonomy
- Life-long learners
- Doing something you love
- Someone who believes in you / Relationships
- Engagement trumps content
- Charism / inspiration counts / Modeling
- Observation vs. Evaluation
- Passionate interests
- Learning how to learn
SKILLS FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
- Ability to make space to think
- Exploring
- Contemplation
- Balance
- Ability to learn
- Improvising
- Making connections
- Vulnerability
- Experience unconfortableness
- Able to make mistakes
- Orient yourself
- Preparation
- Discerning of information "literacy"
- Discipline
- Concentration
- Recognize difference
STRATEGIES / POSSIBLE ITEMS FOR YOUR LEARNING PLAN
- Look for mentors
- Build relationships
- Work toward self-direction
- Encourage working on hard things
- Make learning plans / involve
- Find things you want to learn
- Foster agility and resilience
- Look for diversity of opinion
- Make the invisible visible
- Resist intervention / don't solve problems
- Model
- Field trip
- Learn an instrument
- Read Zinn
RESOURCES
- Yong Zhao
World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students
Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization - Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
- Max Lucado, You Are Special
- Jamie Vollmer, Schools Cannot Do It Alone: Building public Support for America's Public Schools
- Cal Newport, How to Be a High School Superstar
- David H. Albert, And the Skylark Sings with Me - Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education
- Tony Wagner, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
