Best take on “21st century skills” I’ve seen

Meg 09/12/15 16:47

Hi Kevin,

Have you ever checked out this site?

http://www.rogerschank.com/

It’s a blog, etc. from a former learning sciences professor. His rhetoric can be heavy (e.g., we should abolish all school subjects and focus on real-world skills), but I find it interesting/challenging. I don’t think necessarily that we have a 21st century skills problem (it seems that our nation’s young people have no problem learning those skills in their free time) but I do wonder if we need some sort of rethinking of the status quo in terms of what courses we teach on the K12 level.
Miller 09/12/15 17:57

I’ll check it out. Roger Schank is an interesting character, particularly to himself. This old book review provides some sense of that, I think: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/10/books/strategies-of-the-head.html?scp=8&sq=roger%20schank&st=cse