Share Paper: T2: Preparing our Students for a 21st Century Globally Integrated World

  1. Laurence Peters, The National Education Foundation, United States
  2. Kathy King, Fordham University, United States

Abstract: Attendees will be given a thorough grounding in what it takes to create a 21st century classroom and what issues they will need to address in order to successfully integrate the content standards with global, technology and 21st century skills standards. We will first introduce the rationale for moving more swiftly towards a learner centered classroom based on our changing economy as reflected in the work of Murnane and Levy and a number of other analysts. The substance of the presentation will be a practical guide to what needs to change. Partipants will be able to access their content standards, ...