Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Cave Creek Unified and the fallacies of the 21st Century Skills debate

The superintendent has come up with her 'Suggested Goals for 10-11'.  As part of this she is proposing the formation of the "Blueprint for 21st Century Learners" committee to create a strategic plan.  We have summarily dismissed this as an unnecessary waste of district resources and committee members time/efforts with the results destined to be ignored or shelved, but we will address the fallacies of the 21st Century Skills debate.

We begin with this absurd but relevant 21st Century Skill example:


 

HT to a commenter at Joanne Jacobs

2 comments:

  1. What the heck is with this drivel? Was there a point to this presentation? Burdick really has no clue when it comes to best practices and instructional strategies. She really needs to go or be canned.

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  2. All this about the 21st Century and creating good global citizens ties directly in with the UN's Agenda 21. If you haven't read it, you should, so you'll know exactly with what students are being indoctrinated. We will no longer be the land of the free and students won't know any different because they haven't been taught what it means to be an American, other than we're an oppresive and racist country.

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