Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Dancing with Robots

School reform...the Common Core...college and career skills...STEM...21st Century learning:  what does it all mean? As we endeavor to connect teaching and learning to life in a future world which we cannot quite envision, what are the fundamental concepts that will endure? In their paper, Dancing with Robots, Frank Levy, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Richard Murnane, from MIT, state that “We must refocus our education system around one objective: giving students the foundational skills in problem-solving and communication that computers don’t have.” Access it here:  http://issuu.com/thirdway/docs/dancing-with-robots?e=0/3958493#search