I'm done with the 21st Century!

I know it's the largest word in my tag cloud on this blog....but really I'm over it now.I have come to hate the phrase "21st Century" whatever: Learner, Thinking, Teacher, Skills.Has anyone noticed it's 2008...well 79 days until 2009!We're 9 years (depending on how you count) into the 21st Century and we're still calling for 21st Century things.I'm sorry we're in it! These are just skills! They are just what we should be doing and if we're not teaching them, helping students to understand them then we're letting them down....big time!So that's it...I'm done. No more 21st Century for me.They just are today's skillsThey just are today's schoolsThey just are today's studentsThey just are what we should be doing!No more putting them off.No more pretending we are thinking of the future.Either you are a 21st Century school working on preparing students for today or you are a 20th Century school that just doesn't get it.That goes for teachers, skills, content, curriculum, students.From now on it's just what I do.The time is now!(Original Picture: Flickr User: drewn's http://www.flickr.com/photos/87703047@N00/131314233)