The Enabling Support Foundation

Although I have been a pioneer in the use of technology in education for a couple of decades, I am usually stumped by the question of just what, exactly, are the 21st Century skills.

Here is an interesting piece that explains the terminology and shows what it will mean to make the necessary changes in curricula and practice: 21st Century Skills

As I move into creation of specific courses for students to use to learn particular information, I find I need to consider the widest possible needs to be accomodated.

According to the NCLB, schools and educators need to be "accountable" to the taxpaying public. To be "accountable" one must quantify what they do - like counting the number of widgets produced on an assembly line. But teachers are not on an assembly line, and the materials used to produce their "widgets" are not quantifiable either before they become widgets or after they have been widgetized.

Well, those fierce folks who demanded accountability were not to be put off by the impossibility of quantifying the widgets.