Partnership for 21st Century Skills

To my surprise, New Jersey is 21st Century Ready! The state that I reside in is actually "committed to preparing students to live and work effectively in the 21st century" (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2010). I would like to know if my school district plans on partnering up with P21 to "help our students understand, connect to and act on critical global issues by integrating 21st century perspectives into curricula in all Core Curriculum Content Standard areas" (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2010).

I feel this is an extremely informative Website. I was happy to see that P21 was working hard to implement seven strategies to promote success for all students. I especially was impressed with the mention of fusing the three Rs and four Cs into the education system because as P21 states, "Higher standards are essential" (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2010). I feel holding students to higher standards is crucial to their success.

One aspect of the website that I did not like was that it is necessary to click on multiple links to find out one bit of information, and this may be too time consuming for some. On the other hand, maybe it is a very user friendly site, but the user is not technologically inept.

Although this website claims to being committed to its fourteen state partners, I feel that my school district is not taking advantage of this partnership. Ken Kay, the president of P21, emphasized how "every student needs to be 21st century ready" (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2010). I think educators need to be 21st century ready so we can prepare our students to be 21st century ready.

Reference:

Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2010). Fusing the Three Rs and Four Cs for 21st Century Readiness. [Motion picture]. United States: Partnership for 21st Century Skills.