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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

Fresh off our discussions about definitions , I have found that a great many sites and authors interchange and conflate “computer literacy” and “digital literacy”. At the same time The Partnership for 21st Century Skills first report (2002), advocated, “To cope with the demands of the 21st century, people need to know more than core subjects.

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How Can a Student Be ‘Proficient’ in One State But Not Another? Here Are the Graphs

Edsurge

When No Child Left Behind passed back in 2002, Congress enthusiastically proclaimed that 100 percent of American students would be proficient in reading and math by 2014. These definitions of achievement levels for 4th and 8th-grade reading and math have remained consistent since the early 90s, according to NAEP officials.

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How A Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who Is “Smart”

MindShift

I felt like they cared for me,” said Martha Hernandez, who graduated in 2002 and is now a social worker. You definitely can’t fake these moments,” said Yuka Walton, a seventh- and eighth-grade math teacher at James Denman Middle School in San Francisco. They cared for my education and they wanted me to succeed.”.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. Terry Heick offers a definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”