Pignatiello, Roy (2009). New skills for a new generation. International Society for Technology in Education, Retrieved 08/07/09, from http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=August_No_1_2&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&NavMenuID=4363&ContentID=23906&DirectListComboInd=D
This article begins by posing the current gap between the businesses that thrive for technological skill, and what classrooms offer to the student. Many High Schools in the U.S. have taken the necessary steps to take advantage teaching the youth technology based skills to profit their opportunities in a quickly emerging world. In addition, the birth and boom of distant learning, such as web 2.0 tools, has also contributed toward a world of technological advances.
What is one current approach as to how schools respond to the need to teach their students to be more technological proficient?
Cleavland High School, Euclid, provides their students with opportunities to practice more technologically based skills in a hands on, and collaborative learning environment. In addition, it promotes advanced learning, diversity, and economic development. They achieved this by setting these the standards of their curriculum for all their students.
Are technological skills training really paying off with our youth?
Based on this article, current youth testimonies of success stories starting as easy as high school spell out the countless opportunities that today's youth is experiencing if given the opportunity to take advantage of technological tools. The reason why these young people were so successful was because thy had relied on curriculum that was based on "real world" problems. This encourages life long learners for generations to come.
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