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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Bringing Schools into the 21st Century
  name:
    name part: Wan, Guofang.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Gut, Dianne M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 260 p. online resource.
  abstract: Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are slow to keep up. This book explores issues related to transforming and modernizing our educational systems, including the impact of societal shifts on education, the efforts at various levels to bring schools into the 21st century, the identification of 21st century skills, the reformation of the curriculum, the creation of alternative models of schooling, the innovative use of technology in education, and many others. It addresses questions like the following: Should schools systems adapt to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s world and how should this be accomplished? How can society better prepare students for a changing and challenging modern world? What skills do students need to lead successful lives and become productive citizens in the 21st century? How can educators create learning environments that are relevant and meaningful for digital natives? How can the school curriculum be made more rigorous to meet the needs of the 21st century? This book encourages readers to transcend the limits of their own educational experience, to think beyond familiar notions of schooling, instruction and curriculum, to consider how to best structure learning so that it will benefit future generations. It encourages a deeper analysis of the existing education system and offers practical insights into future directions focused on preparing students with 21st century skills.
  table of contents: Introduction: Why This Book? Time Has Changed but School Has Not, Guofang Wan, Dianne Gut -- 1. Whatever Happened?, Mark Treadwell -- 2. 21st Century Students Need 21st Century Skills, Ken Kay, Valerie Greenhill -- 3. Educational Reform: What Have Federal and State Policy-Makers Done?, Rosalyn Anstine Templeton, Karen Huffman, Celia E. Johnson -- 4. A Needs Assessment - Reforming the U.S. School Curriculum, Guofang Wan -- 5. Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century - A Renaissance, Celia Johnson, Rosalyn Templeton -- 6. Integrating 21st Century skills into the Curriculum, Dianne Gut -- 7. Reading, Writing, and Deconstructing: Media Literacy in the School Curriculum, Jessica Collins, Denis Doyon, Christie McAuley, Andrea Quijada -- 8. The Mobile School / Digital Communities Created by Mobile Learners, Teresa Franklin -- 9. Online learning: A 21st Century Approach to Education, John Watson, L. Kay Johnson -- 10. A Collaborative Model: Changing Teacher Education from the Ground Up, Renee Middleton, Bonnie Prince -- Index.
  note: edited by Guofang Wan, Dianne M. Gut.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Curriculums (Courses of study)
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Teaching
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Teaching and Teacher Education
  subject:
    topic: Curriculum Studies
  classification: LB5-3640
  classification: 371.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 13
  identifier: 9789400702684
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0268-4
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    record creation date: 110113
    record change date: 20151121003817.0
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