The document discusses the characteristics and learning habits of today's "Net Generation" students ages 8-18. It notes that these students spend much of their free time engaged with digital media and online activities like social networking, gaming, and creating content. It advocates for educators to incorporate more collaborative, creative, and technology-enabled learning approaches into the classroom to better prepare students for the future. These include having students create videos and podcasts, work together on online projects, and publish their work digitally.
34. By the year 2016, the largest English speaking country will be China.
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36. We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OURpast. --Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist.
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38. “Due to rapidly changing dynamics facing the 21st Century, new skills, regardless of what they are called will be needed for every man, woman and child to address the economic, social, political and citizenship challenges that await them… Business success will demand a workforce whose skills adapt to the needs of the future.” --SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) Report, 1992
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41. "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." -- Perelman
51. Students created an online wiki about the Loyalists vs. the Patriots going to war to gain American independence. The debate continued on our classroom blog.
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