What+Should+Students+Know+and+be+Able+to+Do?

=What Should Students (and their network connections) Know and Be Able to Do?=

Read Tony Wagner's article Rigor Redefined from the October 2008 issue of //Educational Leadership//, What Would Socrates Say? by Peter Cookson from the September 2009 issue, and this post on the Google Blog.

 **Essential Questions**
 * //Take a look at the seven survival skills that Wagner postulates and the four elements of a 21st Century Mind from Cookson through the lens of your classroom. How does your classroom do on those seven skills and four elements?//
 * //Pick three of the skills/elements and brainstorm ways to strengthen their presence in your classroom.//
 * //Are you educating for the routine or the novel? If "in the real world . . . the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook [and] the tests are all open book" and "Learning . . . is a lifelong major," what specific techniques are you using in your classroom to address this?//

//After// we read and discuss, here is a spot for our shared reflections.