By Arthur Shostak
Academic futuristics_a inventive mixture of dynamic pedagogy and evolving futuristics_offers KD12 execs, mom and dad of school-age youngsters, and kids alike a brand new software for upgrading the educational that considerably shapes our destiny. This e-book makes a case for its empowering hire, deals over twenty pragmatic lecture room routines, warns opposed to employment blunders, demands a paradigm shift in KD12 schooling, and information how one can get there from the following. development on a the former ebook by way of the writer (Anticipate the varsity You Want), this new ebook responds to questions raised through readers of that ebook and provides principles from 11 specialists. specific at the shelf of KD12 advocacy fabric, developing the college you will want recommends long-overdue consciousness to tomorrow_to methods of constructing, learning, assessing, and applying forecasts the higher to guarantee a finer day after today.
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Dugger, “Global Number of Early Childhood Deaths Falls below 9 Million for First Time,” New York Times, September 10, 2009, A-6. See also Nicholas D. ,” New York Times, July 9, 2009, A-25. 39. Michael Specter, “A Life of Its Own,” The New Yorker, September 28, 2009, 58. 40. Jay Keasling, professor of biochemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, as quoted in Specter, “A Life of Its Own,” 58. 41. Donald G. , “If Aids Went the Way of Smallpox,” New York Times, September 27, 2009, WK-4.
Staff cuts; 20% of schools adopt fourday week. 2010/2011—Displaced white-collar workers flood labor markets and seek career retraining. A growing share of new teachers are Web-savvy mature adults, reskilled from previous careers. 2010/2011—Information technology (IT) manufacturers migrate their desktop and laptop applications to netbooks, smartphones, and PDAs. To cut costs, schools accelerate adoption of online textbooks, and begin to equip students with iPods and netbooks. 2011—Congress passes 21st Century Skills Incentive Act to promote teaching of higher-order cognitive skills.
1 describes. 1. The Dynamic Encounter! An Instant PrePlay© of the Information Revolution in America’s Schools 2008 benchmark: 1 million K–12 students are enrolled in at least one online course. Irresistible External Forces Consequences for K–12 Schools 2008—Peak oil fuel prices triple. Schools cut/consolidate bus routes; 7% to 8% of school districts adopt four-day week. 2008–2009—Consumer credit bubble collapses, eliminating over $50 trillion from world capital markets. Underwriting standards for lending tighten; cost of long-term government borrowing rises 1% to 2%, including school bonds.