Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

I found the website Partnership for 21st Century Skills very interesting. I believe that until businesses take control of who they are hiring change will not take place in the educational system. It is definitely a step in the right direction, a group of major players in the business and technology world banning together to create the worker they would like to hire. With that being said the biggest problem is still the lack of monetary resources at the disposal of the educators to create the so called "real world" educational environment. I teach in a computer lab that has not been updated in over 6 years. How real world is that? No new software or hardware for 6 years. If a company dared to save money this way they would be out of business. Just like in politics the place the money comes from has the biggest say and these companies spend billions on buy-outs and mergers every year but the giving to create a stable economic system in the schools is very limited. Almost full power is expected before their business is willing to donate. If they want this change to really take place it will have to be done with money first.

ThankYou

I have checked to see if the blog sites are avialable at school and some are and some are not. I talked with the district technology department to see if they could put one or two on the exception list for me. This should happen next week.

Journals

I have been toying with this idea for a few months now. I teach freshmen level computer applications and at the beginning of the semester we do a quick refresher unit on keyboarding .During The first half of the semester I have the kids write a daily journal that must be typed and about 100 words. This is great practice keyboarding and to get them thinking of different topics. I think next semester I want them to create a blog to journal on. I could subscribe to their blogs and read all of their work in one spot without having to look in multiple computer folders. What a time saver and fun way for students to use blogging.

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