G21
Today at work we did what we call “All County Day,” where everyone from all schools meets in one location for professional development. Four sessions filled the day, and during the last, a teacher came to talk to me about her individual technology goals.
These are teacher objectives for the integration of technology that I’ve overseen for the past 5 years. This year, we’re switching to a new system. I call it “G21,” and it’s a framework for doing project-based lessons focused upon twenty-first century skills.
What was surreal was that instead of explaining it, another teacher who was already familiar with it whipped out the model we had passed out on paper from his notebook, explaining each portion of the framework in lucid detail. I felt as if my brain and body had become dismembered, or if life was playing out in slow motion. When the teacher looked at me, I just smiled. There was nothing to add.
The strange feeling was I think a very positive one… at least for some, the framework makes a lot of sense. I hope to report more about G21 as time goes on and as we roll the program out this year.