| Whatever the disputes among the educators are there is (1) a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century. Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math is the meager minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, (2) , utterly necessary but insufficient. Today's economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Here's what they are: (3) , as kids are global citizens now, they must learn to act that way. Needing workers should be global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages--not exactly strong points yet. (4) comes the ability to think outside the box. Jobs in the new economy--the ones that won't get outsourced or automated put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos. Kids must (5) learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design and technology, mathematics and art--that produce YouTube and Google. (6) , in an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what's coming at them and distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. It's important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it. (7) EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in today's workplace. Most innovations today involve large teams of people so special emphasis should be placed on communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures. (8) , many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between core knowledge and what educators call "portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning--any curriculum is subject to revision. Classes should dwell on key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, (9) a succession of forgettable details necessary to do well in tests. (10) , countries from Germany to Singapore have extremely small textbooks that focus on the most powerful and generative ideas. These might be the key theorems in math, the laws of thermodynamics in science or the relationship between supply and demand in economics. Depth over breadth and the ability to leap across disciplines are exactly what educators should aim for. (11) teachers need not fear that they will be made obsolete. They will, (12) , feel increasing pressure to bring their methods--along with the curriculum--into line with the way the modern world works. That means putting a greater emphasis on teaching kids to collaborate and solve problems in small groups and apply what they've learned in the real world. (13) , research shows that kids learn better that way than with the old chalk-and-talk approach. TIME, By Claudia Wallis Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006 | Firstly Second for example last but not least it rates a mention however also as opposed to besides Iikewise what is more nonetheless needless to say |
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22. Write a 200-word essay, choosing one of the following quotations as an epigraph.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F.Kennedy
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry.
Thomas Jefferson
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
Martha Nussbaum
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell
23. Make a 350-word project for the presentation at a mini-conference.
| Information safety Copyright infringement Industrial espionage Industrial piracy | B Keys to success o Remember the main rule of composition: introduction, main part and conclusion. o English logic and English rhetoric are linearthat is, a paragraph begins with a general statement of its content and then carefully develops that statement with a series of specific illustrations. The flow of ideas occurs in a straight line from the opening sentence to the last sentence. o A well-structured English paragraph is never digressive, there is nothing that does not belong to the paragraph and nothing that does not support the topic sentence. |
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