Curriculum 21- Essential Education in a Changing World
I want to recommend a book today.
Curriculum 21
Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Contributing authors: Stephen Wilmarth, Vivien Stewart, Tim Tyson, Frank W. Baker, David Niguidula, Jamie P. Cloud, Alan November, Bill Sheskey, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick.
Curriculum 21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
I am usually a fast reader, but I have been taking my time with this book. There is not only a wealth of information, but it connects to so many of my thoughts and ideas I have contemplated in my mind as well as on this blog over the last few years. It resonated with me when Heidi Hayes Jacobs says:
a school does not need reform— it needs new forms.
Heidi advocates that
New essential curriculum will need revision- actual replacements of dated content, skills, and assessments with more timely choices.
I really liked her approach when she suggests the distinction between a “growth model” instead of a “change model” that needs to be introduced to a school’s culture.
As I was reading the book (hard copy, not on my Kindle), I was using highlighters to not miss thoughts or quotes that I wanted to remember. It did not take long to realize that I was highlighting too much 
How was I going to get through this book and make sense of it, connect and wrap it around my thoughts which were floating around but had not been verbalized?
I know that I work best through concepts and ideas when I create diagrams or use mind mapping tools. I really like using the SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint. The visuals below are a summary of what I “read out of the book”, the most important points in my mind and quotes.
Based on Curriculum 21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
- Understanding of knowledge, creation & authority
- Make meaning of information to create new knowledge
- Find, evaluate, organize, interpret & distribute information
- Pattern recognition, critical thinking, perception
- Gather knowledge to become intelligent vs. apply knowledge
- Social production is enabled by power of networks to connect people
- Nature of learning & teaching
- Locating experts & eyewitnesses
- Relationships NOT technologies determine learning
- Enhancing the process of learning to be (Identity)
- Compete. Cooperate & connect with global peers
- Greater understanding of 95% of world’s population
- Knowledge-driven global economy
- Global competency knowledge, language &respect
- Global perspective
- Critical Thinking
- Literary Authority & participatory culture
- Media is shaping the way students think and express themselves
- No longer print-centric world
- Find, analyze, evaluate, organize, remix, store and share media
- Collecting-Selecting-Reflecting
- Metacognition
- Gather data about own learning
- Self-Modifying as lifelong learner
- Alternative assessment tool
- Non-linear learning
- Semantic Web
- Interdisciplinary linkage to real world applications
- Global Connectivity
- Ubiquitous connectivity
- Learning is social
- Collective Intelligence
- Engage students to produce meaningful contributions
- Students making contributions to learning communities
- Establishing & maintaining working relationships
- Tools to share what we learn open up new ways of thinking
- Professional Development
- Community
- Nationally/ Internationally
- Foreign Languages
Adapted from Alan November (pp. 186-194) in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Adapted from Arthur Costa & Bena Kallick (pp. 210-226)Â in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Adapted from Arthur Costa & Bena Kallick (pp. 223-225) in Curriculum 21 (ASCD, 2010) "by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Adapted from Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Adapted from Stephen Wilmarth's chapter in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Visual based on Heidi Hayes Jacobs in "Curriculum 21" (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs. We need to upgrade curriculum content. She suggests to start with assessments. Decide what kind do we need to keep, what do we need to throw out and each teacher pledges to at least upgrade one assessment type a year.
I also like taking quotes and create visuals of them.
Adapted from Alan November (p. 189) in Curriculum 21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Based on Steven Wilmarth (pp. 95-96) in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Visual based on quote by Stephen Wilmarth in the book "Curriculum 21" by Heidi Hayes Jacobs.
Sounds like the book is bursting with good ideas.
I loved the visual quotes.
I have ordered a copy from Amazon as an antidote to the uninspiring National Curriculum being formulated in Australia at the moment.
.-= Darcy Moore´s last blog ..James Cameron – ‘Your imagination creates a reality’ =-.
You’ve made Heidi’s book sound like a ‘must read’ Silvia . . . so I’ve ordered a copy. Sure I’ll get as much from it as it sounds you have. Thanks for the post.
.-= Ian´s last blog ..Do we reeeeally need all that stuff? =-.
I am definitely going to recommend this book to our school librarian for our PD section.
Thanks also for sharing all the visuals.
.-= Maggie Hos-McGrane´s last blog ..Cooperative Learning or Collaborative Learning – the PYP Exhibition =-.
Thanks for sharing. I’m not primarily a visual learner but these visuals do a great job of summarizing and aggregating the information.
.-= Damianne President´s last blog ..Was I Better Today? =-.
We just received this from ASCD – will have a closer look at it this week …
Thanks for the summery and highlights
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Thank you Silvia for this compelling, comprehensive description of Curriculum 21. I’ve ordered my copy and will encourage others to do so.
Enjoy your well deserved break!
Beijoes, Andrea
@Andrea,
I can’t wait for you to read it and get your perspective on it.
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