The new millennium is well underway and demands are present for schools to meet the vision of relevance in the
21st century. For example, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2008) describes the
urgency for major changes to create consequence in schools. These include the need to emphasize lifelong learning
and the learning process itself in order to prepare students for the knowledge economy, the need to personalize
learning and use formative assessment as well as expanded information sources to prepare students for acceptable
levels of global achievement, and the need for more professional collaboration networks to inform educators as to
how to fully develop student potential. In addition, the Re-inventing Schools Coalition (n.d.) proposes a vision for
relevance that includes self-directed learning and student empowerment, varied use of peer and teacher assessment,
and student demonstrations of mastery as the basis for promotion. On a broader scale, Darling-Hammond (2010)
advocates for policy reform that will alter schools to the point that “will enable students to learn how to learn, create,
and invent the new world they are entering” (p. 3). Furthermore, the National Science Foundation (2008) calls for
the use of cyberlearning to transform schools by providing students with “a mix of diverse content via the combined
technological capabilities of the Internet, high performance computing, advanced networking, in-home electronics,
and mobile communications” (p. 6). Certainly, these ideas are very exciting for the future of schools.
The new millennium is well underway and demands are present for schools to meet the vision of relevance in the
21st century. For example, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2008) describes the
urgency for major changes to create consequence in schools. These include the need to emphasize lifelong learning
and the learning process itself in order to prepare students for the knowledge economy, the need to personalize
learning and use formative assessment as well as expanded information sources to prepare students for acceptable
levels of global achievement, and the need for more professional collaboration networks to inform educators as to
how to fully develop student potential. In addition, the Re-inventing Schools Coalition (n.d.) proposes a vision for
relevance that includes self-directed learning and student empowerment, varied use of peer and teacher assessment,
and student demonstrations of mastery as the basis for promotion. On a broader scale, Darling-Hammond (2010)
advocates for policy reform that will alter schools to the point that “will enable students to learn how to learn, create,
and invent the new world they are entering” (p. 3). Furthermore, the National Science Foundation (2008) calls for
the use of cyberlearning to transform schools by providing students with “a mix of diverse content via the combined
technological capabilities of the Internet, high performance computing, advanced networking, in-home electronics,
and mobile communications” (p. 6). Certainly, these ideas are very exciting for the future of schools.
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