Common Core

For a wonderfully satirical take on the 21st century skills agenda, watch this video.

The make-it-yourself animated film short features a teacher decked out in a uniform and corporate badge and a corporate education guy (complete with a headset) at Compucon College Preparatory Academy.

It promises to entertain if you have ever wondered …

1. “If all these super rich technology corporations are just using their donations to push policies that will create more demand for technology in the classroom.”
2. Why teachers aren’t more involved in education decisions.
3. About “claims of evidence-based research.”
4. And finally, “[w]hat is this 21st century learning” anyway?

The video’s answers make for a laugh but are jarringly close to reality as policymakers push for schools to be more like corporations and drive education reform with iPad purchases. I couldn’t help but cringe as corporate education guy said, “decisions about education are best made by politicians and those with the money to influence them.”

Stephanie Porowski

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