This document discusses upgrading school curriculum content and structure for the 21st century. It recommends provoking students by cultivating global and personal perspectives using interdisciplinary designs. Content should develop career skills and real-world application while expanding technology and complexity to match student age and ability. Subjects like social studies, sciences, languages, arts and math should fuse traditional divisions and organize around problems. School schedules, student groupings, teacher teams and physical/virtual learning spaces also need reinventing to connect students globally and challenge old assumptions. The goal is flexible, innovative and virtual education led by cross-disciplinary professionals to develop critical thinking for our changing world.

1. Curriculum 21
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Chapters 3 & 4
EDPC605

2. Upgrading Content:
Provocation, Invigora
tion, and
Replacement
What content should be kept?
What content should be cut?
What content should be created?
CONTENT- central element in curriculum
design and can be organized within
disciplines or interdisciplinary designs

3. Tenets Leading to Content
Upgrades
•Global perspective is developed
•Personal and local perspective is cultivated
•Whole child is looked at
•Future careers and work options are developed
•Real-world practice
•Technology and media are expanded
•Complexity of content matches age and stage of the learner

4. Examining the Disciplines
Challenge
the
Status
Quo!

5. Social Studies as Perspectives
on Humanity
Traditional divisions Go through fission and become
FUSED
Geography
History POLITICAL ECONOMICS
Anthropology ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Sociology HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
Economics HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
Political science ANTHROPOLOGICAL POLITICS

6. What to do in Social Studies?
•Expose students to multiple maps for information
and insight
•Discuss changing economic realities
•Prepare “school leavers” to function
independently in the real world
•Take time to teach global studies

7. Sciences in Action:
Layers and
Breakthroughs
What if we
organized the
curriculum
around problems
rather than
separating the
sciences?
Four Science Subset Strands:
1.The Living World
2.The Planet Earth & Beyond
3.The Physical World
4.The Material World

8. Neglected area of science- astronomy
Elementary often emphasizes life science at the
expense of physical science topics
Fears of controversy in science courses- religion,
genetic engineering, and space exploration
Let students become “detectives and solution makers”
Encourage curiosity, being creative, and using senses
for making observations

9. Educating the Person:
Health & Physical
Education
Cardio-respiratory endurance
Muscular
Strength
Muscular
Endurance
Flexibility
Body
Composition
Five Spiral
Components

10. English and Literature
Implement…
•Vocabulary development
•Creative note taking and note making
•Editing and revising strategies
•Research Strategies
ROOT OF ALL PERFORMANCE:
READING
WRITING
SPEAKING
LISTENING

11. Other ideas in English and
Literature
Make use of:
Podcasts
Video conferences
Debates
Comedy forums
Interviews
Oral defense…………………
Compare/contrast film version with the text versions
Use rap to convey messages

12. Language Instruction
Did you know…
China will soon have the largest English-speaking
population?
The most frequently spoken languages are:
Mandarin Chinese @ 12.44%
Spanish @ 4.85%
English @ 4.83%
Arabic @ 3.25%
-from the US CIA World Factbook 2009

13. Teaching Math as a Language
Need to
support
math
geniuses
Need to
understand
language
first
Memorizing
vs
Reasoning

14. The Arts:
Aesthetic Senses, Ideas, and
Emotions
and through it.
from artwork
and
performance
Take in and
receive meaning
and insight

15. New School Versions:
Reinventing and Reuniting
School Program Structures
Will graduates of 2110…
•Be part of virtual learning magnet programs?
•Have global network buddies?
•Be in holographic yearbooks?

16. Fueling 21st Century
Schools…
Needs innovation and new knowledge

17. Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow
http://education.apple.com/acot2/skills/
• “The most desirable skills: work
ethic, collaboration, social responsibility, and
critical thinking and problem-solving.
Employers also see creativity and innovation
as being increasingly important in the future”.
• -
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/
FINAL_REPORT_PDF09-29-06.pdf

18. but also remember…
1. Form should always follow function
–An architectural principle is that the
shape of a building or object should
be primarily based upon its intended
function or purpose.
and
2. The whole is the sum of the parts

22. Curricular Destiny:
Schedules
Why or Why Nots?
Do we need 13 years to graduate?
Do school’s time frames match the nature of the task?
Do we only go to school with the people who live in our
community with all of the technology that is available?

23. Wonder if we…
Learned in a Virtual Space Environment
with students from France in a videoconferencing room!
Learned based on Performance vs Seat Time in VLM’s
(Virtual Learning Magnets)!
Offered students a Virtual Curriculum Menu!

24. http://www.ilearnnyc.net/default.htm

25. Curricular Destiny:
Grouping of Students
Keep in mind: Form should follow function. Does it in
schools today?
Institutional grouping- gender, age, proficiency based…
Instructional grouping- skill
levels, cooperative, competitive…
Independent grouping- clubs, internships, travel abroad…

26. Curricular Destiny:
Grouping of Professionals
Old Method:
Departments, Grade Levels, and Building Levels
New Method:
MEET AROUND PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
Cross-disciplinary teams
Internship supervisors
Data analysis teams
Global network teams

27. Curricular Destiny:
Physical and Virtual Space
Connecting with Peers Around the World
Service Learning
Independent Research
Challenging Old Assumptions with Critical Thinking

28. Think Like Architects!!!
Flexible schedules led by multiple professionals with a
wide range of student groupings in a virtual setting!!!
Architects design – Contractors build!

29. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivq3TZ6Bfic