Renewing Education: New Directions

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A Blueprint for Action: Quick Overview

Four Foundation Skill Areas

Literacy and Communication

• using language, in all its forms, in learning across subject areas
• reading, writing, listening, speaking viewing, and other ways of knowing (e.g., role playing, sketching, diagramming, dramatizing) are vehicles and tools for learning across the curricula

Problem-Solving

• developing problem-solving applications including
  • thinking
  • creative thinking
  • reasoning and logic
  • learning to learn
• understanding, appreciating, and using abstract patterns, relationships, concepts, and connections with numbers words, ideas, issues

Human Relations

• developing understanding of, and appreciation for, self
• developing work habits including responsibility, adaptability, entrepreneurship, management of change, accountability
• developing an understanding of, and appreciation for, our society's diverse population
• developing tolerance, team work, leadership
• developing a sense of global interconnectedness

Technology

• using technology to learn
• making connections among technology, society, and the environment