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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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You allow different approaches as long as students achieve the Big Idea or answer the Essential Question. You aren’t the only one to come up with these varied approaches–students know what works best for their learning and present it to you as an option. This information doesn’t always agree on a conclusion.

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Are we giving young people the capabilities they need to succeed?

Futurum

In the 1980s, Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen challenged traditional welfare economics with his capabilities approach – a concept that focuses on a person’s actual capability to achieve well-being or life success, rather that it being a mere right. Too often, students are asking, “Why am I learning this?

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

While mitigating wind-induced vibrations is the project’s primary function, the team also intends for the designs to be able to react to other environmental conditions by controlling shading or changing colour to save energy. Read up on different engineering disciplines, what they entail, and what they can achieve. A BONUS PROJECT AIM.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

For almost a decade starting in 1982, my primary computer had been a progressively more sophisticated Sun workstation. And I think it’s fair to say that this wasn’t easy to achieve—and in the end required a pretty deep dive into the technology of imaging and printing (as I’ll describe more in a later section).

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