Most recent public comments by Shantanu Saha https://nowcomment.com/users/10176 https://nowcomment.com/documents/23658?scroll_to=242530 https://nowcomment.com/documents/23658?scroll_to=242530 Many young people have made the mental shift, and see school as useless to their gaining 21st century knowledge. Teachers must also make the shift. But administrators also need to make the shift. Parents need to make the shift. School boards and the political establishment also need to make the shift. The test makers need to make the shift. Because unless everyone buys in, the laggards will be a powerful force in pressing for conformity with the existing ways. Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:37:22 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/23658?scroll_to=242495 https://nowcomment.com/documents/23658?scroll_to=242495 When I see the standardized tests that my students take as a routine rite of passage, seldom do I see 21st century skills represented. Where is information literacy? Where is communicating in multiple media? Most of these tests are themselves from an earlier era, and have yet to be updated to reflect what we should want students to learn to be 21st century citizens. Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:37:22 -0500