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 The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century By Thomas L. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. The world isn't going to be flat, it is flat, which gives Friedman's breathless narrative much of its urgency, and which also saves it from the Epcot-style polyester sheen that futurists--the optimistic ones at least--are inevitably prey to. |
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 PBL Starter Kit: To-the-Point Advice, Tools and Tips for Your First Project (Project Based Learning Toolkit Series) By John Larmer, David Ross, PhD and John R. Mergendoller A practical guide to Project Based Learning. Designed for middle and high school teachers, the PBL Starter Kit contains down-to-earth, classroom tested advice, including six sample projects, step-by-step guidance, tips from experienced practitioners, planning tools and online resources plus project-ready rubrics and handouts. |
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 Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age By Suzie Boss, Jane Krauss and Leslie Conery Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers educators an accessible guide for maximizing the benefits of project-based learning in today's technology-rich learning environment. This reader-friendly book speaks directly to educators, administrators, and professional development specialists who want to transform learning into a more active, student-driven experience, using technology tools for inquiry, collaboration, and connection to the world beyond the classroom. Examples from educators in many different countries showcase this new vision of instructional design. |
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 The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future By Linda Darling-Hammond Examining in detail issues like equality of spending, testing in K-12 education, and teacher preparation, Stanford education professor Darling-Hammond (The Right to Learn) makes a clear, organized argument that, "like manufacturing industries that have struggled and gone under in recent decades, modern schools were designed at the turn of the last century," and are in desperate need of transformation. Using a straightforward style to examine complex issues, Darling-Hammond reveals the successful educational strategies around the world that are toppling the old educational guard |
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 The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-- and What We Can Do About It By Tony Wagner Wagner, a Harvard education professor, begins by offering his astute assessment of secondary education in the U.S. today and how it fails to produce graduates who are “jury ready” (i.e., able to analyze an argument, weigh evidence, and detect bias). He then presents a concise manifesto for the steps needed to “reinvent the education profession.” His thesis revolves around “Seven Survival skills”—the core competencies he deems necessary for success both in college and in the twenty-first-century workforce. |
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 Project Based Learning Handbook: A Guide to Standards-Focused Project Based Learning for Middle and High School Teachers By Thom Markham, John Larmer and Jason Ravitz The PBL Handbook provides an overview of the what, why, and how of PBL. It guides teachers through all phases of successful PBL, from deciding on a project idea to reflecting on the outcomes of a project. The PBL Handbook is designed to support both experienced and novice PBL teachers. It can be used as a supplement to the BIE professional development workshops in PBL or as a stand-alone guide to PBL. Regardless of how you use it, the PBL Handbook will enable you to design high-quality projects in your middle or high school classroom. |
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 21st Century Skills:Learning for Life in Our Times By Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of what twenty-first century teaching and learning can achieve. |
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 Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World By Heidi Hayes Jacobs What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school s curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today? With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K 12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wisdom of 10 education thought leaders, Jacobs provides insight and inspiration in the following key areas: |
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 Five Minds for the FutureBy Howard Gardner Five Minds for the Future by Psychologist, author and Harvard professor Gardner (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons) has put together a thought-provoking, visionary attempt to delineate the kinds of mental abilities ("minds") that will be critical to success in a 21st century landscape of accelerating change and information overload. Gardner's five minds-disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical-are not personality types, but ways of thinking available to anyone who invests the time and effort to cultivate them: "how we should use our minds." |
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 DriveBy Daniel Pink |
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 On Common Ground By Rebecca and Richard DuFour (Eds.) |
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 Catching Up Or Leading The Way By Yong Zhao |
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