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The 22nd Century? Yes, I have the correct century in mind.

Yes, we are less than 20 years into the 21st Century. Yes, we still have nearly 80 years to go until the 22nd Century is beginning.

However, we have been talking about teaching for the 21st Century since my years in the public school system as a student in the 20th Century. We need to have a forward focus. Times and technology are changing extremely quickly. This means we cannot just focus on the hear and now. We need to focus forward.

This website is dedicated to the forward focus in education. We cannot teach our students with the same methods we did in the early 20th Century while we say we want to focus on the 21st Century. We need to prepare our students for a world beyond the hear-and-now. You will find my research interests, collections of research resources, presentations I have given, resources for graduate classes I teach, and links to my blog on ideas for teaching with technology.

My oldest daughter is the class of 2028.

My youngest is the class of 2032.

What world will they be living in 84 years from now? What world will their own children be living in 84 years from now? Let’s think forward – not stuck in the present with the past holding us back.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discovery, to create men who are capable of doing new things.  -Jean Piaget

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