Aug+29+Pre-Meeting+Reading+Materials

Articles

 * [|Strategic Issues Facing Indepedent Schools (Excerpted) 6.30.08.doc]
 * Independent School Magazine: [[file:Bassett article-1.pdf]]
 * [[file:Authentic Learning in the 21st Century.pdf| Authentic Learning]]

Statements

 * NCTE [[file:NCTE Statement on 21st C Lit.pdf|Towards Definition of 21st Century Literacies]]
 * The Lovett Upper School [[file:Master List of Core Competencies.doc|Master List of Core Competencies]]
 * The Lovett Middle School [[file:Core Values.doc| Essential Questions and Core Values]]

Books

 * Clay Shirky's [|Here Comes Everybody]
 * Daniel Pinks's[|A Whole New Mind]
 * Howard Gardner's [|Five Minds for the Future]
 * Tony Wagner's [|Global Achievement Gap]
 * Mel Levine's [|Ready or Not, Here Life Comes]
 * Clayton Christensen's [|Disrupting Class]

Videos
Video is a powerful and now ubiquitous means of communicating. The following videos, available on YouTube, have been viewed by millions of people worldwide. Please take a look at how they present the dynamic shift that is occurring in our world, our students, and the concerns for education. What are you thoughts? Share them!

**Did You Know?**
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**The Machine is Us/ing Us**
An anthropology professor created this video to explain web 2.0 to the general public.

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**A Vision of Students Today**
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**A Vision of K-12 Students Today**
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Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity
Do schools today kill creativity? What do you think?

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Will Richardson's Keynote Address, September 22, 2008 Atlanta PLP Consortium
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**Wendy Drexler's Networked Student**
(UF PhD candidate, Shorecrest Preparatory School faculty) media type="youtube" key="XwM4ieFOotA" height="344" width="425"

Business World Examples: Best Buy and The Company as a Wiki
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