1. Curriculum 21: Chapter 3- Upgrading Content: Provocation, Invigoration, and Replacement
What content should be kept?
What content should be cut?
What content should be created?
CONTENT- central element in curriculum
design and can be organized within disciplines
or interdisciplinary designs

2. Tenets Leading to Content Upgrades
Global perspective is developed
Personal and local perspective is cultivated
Whole child is looked at
Future careers and work options are developed
Real-world practice
Technology and media are expanded
Complexity of content matches age and stage of the learner

3. Examining the Disciplines
Challenge
the
Status Quo!

4. Social Studies as Perspectives on Humanity
Traditional divisions Go through fission and become FUSED FU
Geography
History POLITICAL ECONOMICS
Anthropology ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Sociology HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
Economics HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
Political science ANTHROPOLOGICAL POLITICS

5. What to do in social studies?
Expose students to multiple maps for information and insight
Discuss changing economic realities
Prepare “school leavers” to function independently in the real world
Take time to teach global studies
Deemphasize state history for case studies of the states

6. Sciences in Action: Layers and Breakthroughs
What if we organized the curriculum around problems rather than separating the sciences?
Four Science Subset Strands:
The Living World
The Planet Earth & Beyond
The Physical World
The Material World

7. Neglected area of science- astronomy
Elementary often emphasizes life science at the expense of physical science topics
Fears of controversy in science courses- religion, genetic engineering, and space exploration
Let students become “detectives and solution makers”
Encourage curiosity, being creative, and using senses for making observations

8. Educating the Person: Health & Physical Education
Cardio-respiratory endurance
Muscular Strength
Muscular Endurance
Flexibility
Body Composition
Five Spiral Components

9. English and Literature
Implement…
Vocabulary development
Creative note taking and note making
Editing and revising strategies
ROOT OF ALL PERFORMANCE:
READING
WRITING
SPEAKING
LISTENING

10. Other ideas in English and Lit
Make use of:
Podcasts
Video conferences
Debates
Comedy forums
Interviews
Oral defense…………………
Provide at least one experience/year in which the genre of film is studied
Use rap to convey messages
View poetry slams from students in the Bronx to see/hear moving and powerful words

11. Language Instruction Did you know…
China will soon have the largest English-speaking population?
The most frequently spoken languages are:
Mandarin 13.22%
4.88%
4.68% %

12. Memorizing vs Reasoning Need to understand language first
Need to support math geniuses
Teaching Math as a Language

13. The Arts: Aesthetic Senses, Ideas, and Emotions
Take in and receive meaning and insight
from artwork and performance
and through it.

14. Curriculum 21: Chapter 4- New School Versions: Reinventing and Reuniting School Program Structures
Will graduates of 2110…
Be part of virtual learning magnet programs?
Have global network buddies?
Be in holographic yearbooks?

15. Fueling 21st Century Schools…
Needs innovation and new knowledge

16. but also remember… Form should always follow function and
2. The whole is the sum of the parts

17. Curricular Destiny: Schedules
Why or Why Nots?
Do we need 13 years to graduate?
Do school’s time frames match the nature of the task?
Do we only go to school with the people who live in our community with all of the technology that is available?

18. Wonder if we… Learned in a Virtual Space Environment
with students from France in a videoconferencing room!
Learned based on Performance vs Seat Time in VLM’s
(Virtual Learning Magnets)!
Offered students a Virtual Curriculum Menu!

19. Curricular Destiny: Grouping of Students
Keep in mind: Form should follow function. Does it in schools today?
Institutional grouping- gender, age, proficiency based…
Instructional grouping- skill levels, cooperative, competitive…
Independent grouping- clubs, internships, travel abroad…

20. Curricular Destiny: Grouping of Professionals
Old Method:
Departments, Grade Levels, and Building Levels
New Method:
MEET AROUND PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
Cross-disciplinary teams
Internship supervisors
Data analysis teams
Global network teams

21. Curricular Destiny: Physical and Virtual Space
Connecting with Peers Around the World
Service Learning
Independent Research
Challenging Old Assumptions with Critical Thinking

22. Think Like Architects!!!
Flexible schedules led by multiple professionals with a wide range of student groupings in a virtual setting!!!