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    The Future-Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks
    The Future-Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks
    The Future-Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks
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    The Future-Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks

    By L. Robert Furman

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    With this collection of 18 easy-to-follow challenges, learn how to promote teamwork and collaboration, motivating your students to develop the skills they’ll need for the future.

    Incorporating digital age skills into curriculum can be daunting for educators, and getting started can be the hardest part. In this book, author and education leader L. Robert Furman breaks down the process into 18 challenges so that teachers can improve student outcomes based on digital age skills and future-minded progress in a single semester.

    This book includes:
    • Weekly step-by-step challenges designed to fill one semester.
    • Case studies by leaders in the field and examples of how to implement the challenges for each grade level.
    • Coverage of key topics such as digital citizenship, communication, problem-solving and integration of technology into learning.

    The Future-Ready Challenge focuses on changing the classroom, your teaching style and the related procedures to increase opportunities for your students to engage in -- and most importantly, adopt -- digital age skills.

    Audience: K-12 classroom teachers
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInternational Society for Technology in Education
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781564846204
    The Future-Ready Challenge: Improve Student Outcomes in 18 Weeks
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    L. Robert Furman

    L. Robert Furman, Ed.D., is an educator, leader, speaker and the author of Technology, Reading & Digital Literacy. He has received numerous awards, including being named one of the National School Board Association’s 2015 “20 to Watch” in technology education. He is the principal at South Park Elementary Center near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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      The Future-Ready Challenge - L. Robert Furman

      INTRODUCTION

      Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

      —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

      Perusing bookstores and libraries is one of my favorite pastimes. Often I find myself in strange or unusual parts of the collection. One day particularly comes to mind when I found myself in the Self Help section. I became very interested in the vast number of books written on the topics of how to lose weight, or how to stop smoking, or how to become a vegan. It occurred to me that many of these books were written around a challenge theme: The author challenges you to follow certain step-by-step instructions and then guarantees success.

      Wow! That sounds so simple. If challenges work as an effective means to bring about change, perhaps we should apply the same approach to making meaningful changes in education.

      With this step-by-step challenge in mind, I decided to create a 90-day (18-week) challenge designed to change the way we think about our digital age education.

      Why 18 weeks? In 1960, a psychologist by the name of Maxwell Maltz determined that it takes 28 to 30 days to break a bad habit (Maltz, 1989). Modern psychologists have now posited that it takes 28 days to create new patterns in our lives, but it takes 90 days to create new habits.

      As I thought about our educational calendar, the 18-week challenge seemed to fall nicely into our two-semester school year. An 18-week challenge affords you the time needed to implement digital age skills into your curriculum. This challenge incorporates realistic changes that you can follow easily and without performing major reconstruction on your curriculum.

      We all know that change can be hard, but when it’s broken into easy-to-implement steps, the task becomes not only feasible but effortless! The Future-Ready Challenge focuses on changing the classroom, your teaching style, and the related procedures to increase opportunities for your students to engage in—and most importantly, adopt—digital age skills.

      This sentiment is mirrored by the Future-Ready initiative of the Office of Educational Technology (part of the Office of the Secretary of Education) (tech.ed.gov/FutureReady), which encourages school superintendents to sign a pledge that they are committing to foster and lead a culture of digital learning in their district and to share what they have learned with other districts. The Office of Educational Technology provides leadership for transforming education through the power of technology and collaborates with other education offices to support the effective use of technology in

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