The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age. (Book Reviews).Superintendent, Lester Prairie Public “Prairie Public” redirects here. For co-owned public television network, see Prairie Public Television. Prairie Public is a public radio service of Prairie Public Broadcasting in association with North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota and the University Schools, Lester Prairie prairie Level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America. Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 40 in. (100 cm) at the forested eastern edge to less than 12 in. , Mimi. The requirements for an emerging workforce will continue to change. The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age is the latest attempt by author David Thornburg to identify some of the educational requirements. He argues that all students need the lifelong skills that he has identified from researching current job descriptions. The new basic skills are those that should be required of all workers, says Thornburg, a futurist and consultant. In The New Basics, the author agrees with former u.s. Labor Secretary Robert Reich that the new class of workers needs the skills of abstraction, systems thinking, experimentation and collaboration. In addition, he identifies the skills of digital-age literacy, inventive in·ven·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by invention. 2. Adept or skillful at inventing; creative. in·ven thinking, effective communication and high productivity as necessary for the present and future workforce. Because curriculum reform is slow moving, Thornburg suggests these new basic skills be incorporated into current subjects and curriculum. (The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age by David Thornburg, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, or ASCD, is a membership-based nonprofit organization founded in 1943. It has more than 175,000 members in 135 countries, including superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and , Alexandria, Va., 2002, 119 pp., $21.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) |
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