Action, not just words
My hope for this conference is that participants will come looking for ways to act. In so many meetings and publications we have described and redescribed challenges and barriers. We know what those are. We now need to focus on who has met challenges and overcome barriers and to plan ways to apply lessons and modify practices for scaling necessary changes.
Fortunately, we already know infrastructures and pedagogies that work for fostering many of these 21st century literacies in students. The potential of this particular conference is the mix of participants from different sectors who can bring to bear on the literacies education different kinds of expertise and resources. Do we have the will to act? That's up to us, and I hope the answer is yes.
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I look forward to the conversation. There are many examples of how 21st century skills are already being applied. The challenge is how to apply them at all levels of education. First, we have to dream it before we can make it a reality. Part of this has already been accomplished through the 21st century partnership skills. Now, I hope that the individuals at the conference can move these dreams from theory to practice.
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