- What is your reaction to the site?
This website has a lot of information dealing with 21st century skills. The resources are great and very insightful. The history of the website lists a fair amount of top name organizations that have contributed. At first glance the website looks to be overwhelming with all the information.
- What information on the site surprised you?
While I was searching the site, I came across a tab labeled as Strategic Council Members. I was surprised at all the large name companies that were listed. I was impressed on how many large companies wanted to be involved in the teaching and helping of the skills for the 21st century. Another item that surprised me was that Wisconsin was on the state initiatives list. I am proud and excited to know that Wisconsin is on board with helping students into the 21st century.
- Did you disagree with anything on the site?
One thing I disagreed with was the amount of information on the site. Even though the majority of the information is informative, it was just overwhelming and I did not know where to start looking and sometimes what I was looking at. When someone is not familiar with the information presented on a site and then to try to understand it, too much information just makes it that much harder.
- What are the implications for your students, and for you as a contemporary educator?
The implication for my students is that they will learn and have exposure to the skills needed in the 21st century. The more that educators can do to prepare their students for the 21st century, the more likely they are to succeed. As for me as an educator, I find that I need more time in the schedule to teach the skills needed for them to succeed. Along with time, educators would also need the resources to teach it. The teaching environment that I teach in limits me to the resources to apply the skills with.
Overall, this site is a very informative and educational site. I agree with their mission statement about this site and its creators being the bridge to helping students form relationships between education, business, the community and government. If we are able to bridge the gap, we are only helping the students to be successful in life.
There was so much information on this site that it was really hard to know where to begin and how to take it all in. They probably could have done a better job organizing their resource information. I was also surprised by some of the big-name supporters of P21. It will take the sponsorship and leadership of those type of organizations if the ideas of P21 are going to take hold in more states and school systems. I live in Georgia and we are not currently subscribing to the P21 initiative, which I think is unfortunate. That is part of the reason our state education system is viewed as so backwards. There seems to be very little 21st century thinking and preparation taking place in our state. You are very lucky to teach in a state that has the vision to support such a program.
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