Relationships

Include the names of all members of your group, and your responses to the following questions:

1. What are the challenges being presented? 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research

Tara, Kelly, Carson, and Josh Relationships 1. What are the challenges being presented? -Students are told to memorize things and not actually thinking why you are learning it - We have not progressed and are learning the way our grandparents did -Schools are behind our modern society

2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? -Technology -Think outside of the box and broaden our studies -Bring the way we teach to the 21st century

3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? -Speak more languages -Smaller textbooks -Focus on people skills and emotional intelligence -Collaborating in small groups and being able to work well in teams -Show respect for each other

4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research 1. Working individually or in groups, which supports the 21st century skills? 2. If teachers were no longer needed to give information what should they do to support the students? 3. How involved should teachers be in student’s lives? 4. What sort of teacher would be beneficial for the 21st century, a leader, or a mentor? 5. What are the benefits of working with younger or older students if there are any? 6. What is a mentor vs Leader? 7. What are the benefits of having experts come in frequently? 8. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How much of a voice should a 21st century student have in class? <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">9. Do teachers invade personal privacy in students lives? 10. Should we have split grades, which supports the 21st century? <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Carmen, Mathias, Daniel, Mac 1. What are the challenges being presented? 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting?
 * Kids spending to much time doing things they did when their greatgrand parents did. (Example, sitting in rows, taking notes by hand, teahcers lecturing.
 * Kids trust electronics to much and the information maybe false or not enough technologies being used, could be using updated text books
 * Kids not interested not engaged in learning
 * Expected to remember things
 * Don’t mark everything on test, more group work, Exams scratch the surface of what we are learning
 * More class rooms, Mandarin was dropped, on flip side less class rooms could get them off task
 * Learning more based on technology, grade one students use Microsoft
 * Portable thinking making connections from between ideas and know how to keep learning
 * smaller textbooks that focus on more powerful and generative ideas
 * More Foregin language, more job opportunities
 * Can work across disciplines
 * What is important and what isn’t
 * Develop good people skills (example, most innovations today involve more {larger teams} people)
 * Use more materials to teach, such as coins
 * More experts and teachers because students could get more attention
 * Could giver more variety in languages, learn more cultures
 * Combine Science/math classes with humanities classes
 * More outside world projects, outside of high school
 * More websites for all grades to be free to use