Reflections on Heidi Hayes Jacobs’ TEDxNYED talk

• What are we preparing our students for?
• Strategic replacements/upgrades of outdated curriculum
• Updates are replacements of outdated content, skills and assessments
• Media, global and digital literacy – what is it and what does it look like?
• Students are processing information differently.
• Most learning isn’t linear.
• Every school should have at least 3 benchmark assessments where students get to “be” a futurist and/or practice new genre(s).
• Have student develop the rubrics – What does a quality __________ (blog, podcast, wiki, etc.) look like?
• New School Versions
• Schedule – What types of schedules would best help kids?
• Student grouping – Why do we always need 3^rd graders together?
• Personnel grouping – Why are we only meeting with our content area/department?
• Space (virtual and physical) – Virtual Learning Magnets (Tom Welsh)

Quite a bit to think about here.  I'm particularly struck by asking students to define quality work!