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21st Century Skills are a necessity

 * Where does wood come from? Using your phone, text a Code to 22333. Use the codes below for your answer. Made by [|www.polleverywhere.com]




 * Video "Where does the mass of a tree come from?" (Harvard Grads Project 2061) [] (3:30 - 4:50) When kids on a playground were asked the same question they gave the same response.
 * What is the answer? Research in Groups of 3, Using your ipad and Safari, find our where wood comes from. You have 5 minutes.
 * Problem - Difficult to transfer knowledge from classroom to real life.
 * Physics Professor Mazor from Harvard says we need to teach by questioning. A majority of students cannot apply knowledge a minute after they learned it.
 * Why do the Harvard graduates fail the Wood question (Use Draw or Draw Free on your ipad to respond)
 * 1) They never learned it in the first place
 * 2) They forgot
 * 3) The Question was out of context of where they learned the material
 * 4) Their Childhood Experience trumped good teaching.

Mazur concluded that...
 * The most important learning is the conversation kids have with each other
 * Mazur observes student learning in Social Networking Tools and designs his instruction around the conversations and understandings they have.
 * Teachers are working in a modul which has been designed for kids to fail
 * We need to teach to understand by using websites such as [|www.wolframalpha.com]
 * Daniel Pink "A Whole New Mind" says When answers are easily attainable then the value of each answer is less.

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