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**__Welcome to Page 2 of the Contemporary Issues in Education Discussion!__**
Please view the videos below and read Freire and the following articles:


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Consider the shifting paradigm we've been discussing this semester and the one to which Robinson refers in each of his videos. How does standardization of expectations for student learning & the use of testing to check what kids know (and how well teachers are teaching) fit into this paradigm? Does it? How/Why or not?

How can we "tread lightly" on children's creativity and "reconsititute the richness of the human capacity" in the way that we teach and what we uphold as priorities? In simpler terms, how can we open out to kids and include //all of them// in their own meaning making while teaching them essential skills and concepts? Ayers, HOM, and others have a lot to say on this topic, too!

Last, select 1 point of the "rigor redefined" article regarding 21st Century Learning Skills. Could any of these skills find their way into a standardized curriculum? Could their inclusion in current curricula encourage the kind of creativity Robinson deems so much in jeopardy? You might want to illustrate this by thinking how your focal child might practice one skill and how it would fit into the rest of his/her current experience in school.

NOTE: If you have other points about these resources that you wish to share, and they deviate from the above questions, by all means post them and we will fold them into the discussion that gets ensues.