February 3, Chapter 1

Chapter 1 focuses on the philosophy and ideals that are emerging in this new age of information. The race to world interconnectivity has changed the way we teach and learn as a society. We are no longer a society that relies on manufacturing, industrials, and the learning techniques that produce those job opportunities. We are now a nation that is competing with other nations for the global economy and our young people need the necessary skills to develop bloom's taxonomy higher order skill set to compete globally. We have transformed from web 1.0 to 2.0 incorporating sharing, collaborating, project-based assessments,with social expressions as the leading elements of open source web applications. Our students need to be prepared for this highly competitive market so we must have educators that are professionally developed in transferring that knowledge by using the technologies themselves. Our educational system is built on an outdated system that requires real change and brave intellectuals to lead it. Then and only then we can start to compete. I think our school is being lead by our district as a whole and we are lagging behind in preparing our students for the next generation of competitive jobs. The national infrastructure ranks 20th in the world when it comes to broadband infrastructure and some studies gave data showing achievement that has a resulting impact on broadband connectivity. Lastly, we must provide and support the teachers so they will have the expertise in using the tools that identify learning styles and then use that data to tailor assessments to meet the individual needs of the multimodal learner.