Teaching+21st+Century+Skills

1. Our education system's most basic measure of educational attainment is time-based or "seat-time".
==2. We organize students into age-determined groups, structure separate academic disciplines, organize learning into classes of roughly equal size with all the students in a particular class receiving the same content at the same pace.==

The technology that enables connected teaching is available now, but
==not all the conditions necessary to leverage it are. Many of our existing educators, education leaders and policymakers in schools, districts, and states do not have the same understanding of and ease with using technology that is part of the daily lives of professionals in other sectors.== ==The technology that enables connected teaching is available now, but there is this gap in technology understanding that influences program and curriculum development, funding and purchasing decisions about educational and information technology in schools, and pre-service and in-service professional learning. This gap prevents technology from being used in ways that would improve instructional practices and learning outcomes.==

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