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1 online resource. |
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Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Learning for Tomorrow; The Expanding Universe of What's Worth Learning; I'm Not Going to Tell You What's Worth Learning; Chapter 1: Lifeworthy Learning: Where Knowledge Goes in Learners' Lives; Lifeworthy as Key; Lifeworthy at Risk; When Lifeworthy Thrives; When Lifeworthy Falters; Lifeworthy versus Quadratic Equations; How about Technical Needs?; How about Ways of Thinking in the Disciplines?; How about Literacy in the Disciplines?; How about Loving That Kind of Thing? |
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How about High-Stakes Testing and University Entrance Requirements?Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Questing for Lifeworthy; Educating for the Unknown; Toward Reimagining Education; Chapter 2: Learning Agendas: The Mixed Blessings of Achievement, Information, and Expertise; The Achievement Agenda and Its Soft Tires; The Information Agenda and Its Soft Tires; The Expertise Agenda and Its Soft Tires; From Hierarchy to Network; Dancing Mitosis and Designing a Fish; Chapter 3: Big Understandings: Learning That Matters in Learners' Lives; Big Understandings Defined; Big and Not So Big. |
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Big for LifeThe Big Choice; The Big Save; Smart Sampling; Chapter 4: Big Questions: Learning beyond What's Settled and Known; Big Questions Defined; Wondering At and Wondering About; Socratic Questions; Living Questions; Question Kits; But What about Answers?; Chapter 5: Lifeready Learning: Making What's Worth Learning Ready for Life; Understanding as Thinking; Building Understanding through Thinking; Understanding as Applying; Understanding as Noticing; Understanding as Caring; Understanding Democracy; Pathways and Pitfalls; The Place of Digital Technologies. |
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Chapter 6: The Seven Seas of Knowledge: Lifeworthy Learning from the DisciplinesWhat Good Is Poetry?; What Good Is Algebra?; What Good from A to Z?; What Good for Younger Learners?; Chapter 7: Ways of Knowing: Powerful Patterns of Thought from the Disciplines and Beyond; Three Ways of Knowing; Ways of Knowing in General; Euclid's Way; Bacon's Way; Ways of Learning Ways of Knowing; Junior Ways of Knowing; Newton's Way; Thucydides' Way; Byways and Highways; Chapter 8: Buckets of Knowledge: Organizing Content across the Years of Education; The Bucket Problem; Renewing the Disciplines. |
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Reframing the DisciplinesCrosstopics; Crosstopics as Bucket Systems; Better Bucket Systems; Chapter 9: Big Know-How: Twenty-First-Century Skills and Beyond; Listing Big Know-How; The US Twenty-First-Century Skills Framework; The Four Cs; The European Reference Framework; Seven Survival Skills; Habits of Mind; Studio Habits of Mind; Gardner's Five Minds; Teaching Big Know-How; Mapping Big Know-How; Accommodating Big Know-How; Choosing Big Know-How; The Inverted Curriculum; Chapter 10: Knowledge on the Way to Wisdom; Yesterday on the Way to Tomorrow; Learning on the Way to Lifeworthy. |
| Summary |
"How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most. Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future. K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society. David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow. In Future Wise, you'll learn concepts, curriculum criteria, and techniques for prioritizing content so you can guide students toward the big understandings that matter. Understand how learners use knowledge in life after graduation Learn strategies for teaching critical thinking and addressing big questions Identify top priorities when it comes to disciplines and content areas Gain curriculum design skills that make the most of learning across the years of education Future Wise presents a brand new framework for thinking about education. Curriculum can be one of the hardest things for teachers and administrators to change, but David Perkins shows that only by reimagining what we teach can we lead students down the road to functional knowledge. Future Wise is the practical guidebook you need to embark on this important quest"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: Learning for Tomorrow 1. Lifeworthy Learning: Where Knowledge Goes in Learners' Lives 2. Learning Agendas: The Mixed Blessings of Achievement, Information, and Expertise 3. Big Understandings: Learning That Matters in Learners' Lives 4. Big Questions: Learning Beyond What's Settled and Known 5. Lifeready Learning: Making What's Worth Learning Ready for Life 6. The Seven Seas of Knowledge: Lifeworthy Learning from the Disciplines 7. Ways of Knowing: Powerful Patterns of Thought from the Disciplines and Beyond 8. Buckets of Knowledge: Organizing Content across the Years of Education 9. Big Knowhow: 21st Century Skills and Beyond 10. Knowledge on the Way to Wisdom End Notes Index . |
| Summary |
"How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most. Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future. K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society. David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow. In Future Wise, you'll learn concepts, curriculum criteria, and techniques for prioritizing content so you can guide students toward the big understandings that matter. Understand how learners use knowledge in life after graduation Learn strategies for teaching critical thinking and addressing big questions Identify top priorities when it comes to disciplines and content areas Gain curriculum design skills that make the most of learning across the years of education Future Wise presents a brand new framework for thinking about education. Curriculum can be one of the hardest things for teachers and administrators to change, but David Perkins shows that only by reimagining what we teach can we lead students down the road to functional knowledge. Future Wise is the practical guidebook you need to embark on this important quest"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Education -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Curriculum planning -- United States.
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Learning.
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Effective teaching.
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Curriculum planning. |
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Education -- Forecasting. |
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Effective teaching. |
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Learning. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Print version: Perkins, David N. Future wise First ed. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprints, Wiley, 2014 9781118844083 (DLC) 2014007796 |
| ISBN |
9781118844151 : $27.95 |
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1118844157 : $27.95 |
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