The Skills

Deborah Meier wants to be "Data Informed," Not Data Driven" and she wins The Liberal Arts Hero of the Day Award, which comes with no prize money, just some modest adulation.

Why is she the winner? Well, in her latest letter to pen pal Diane Ravitch on the website of Education Week, Ms. Meier discusses the latest trend toward making sure our children are equipped with "21st Century Skills" and she says things I like, such as this:

Human beings are going to create the 21st Century, not “fit into it”—I hope. And it might have been a great thing if all children had learned so-called 21st Century skills in the 12th Century and the 19th...

Sweet.

The Remix

On March 18th, PBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0 are hosting Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students a webinar featuring experts from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Guests including Robert Young, the Folger's Director of Education and Amy Ulen, High School English teacher and founder of www.ShakespeareHigh.com, will discuss how teachers can help their students bridge the gap between Shakespeare's world and the digital age.

Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students happens on March 18 from 8-9:30 p.m. ET.

The webinar is FREE, which is great, but to get the secret entry code by email you first have to join PBS Teachers Connect, which is irritating.

PBS Great Performances presentation of "King Lear" will air in late March 2009 on PBS. Check your local listings for the exact date and time, because I have no idea.

Update via Dennis Baker's helpful comment:

King Lear New York airdates:

time: wednesday 03/25/2009 at 8pm
channel: thirteen/wnet

time: saturday 03/28/2009 at 1:30am
channel: thirteen/wnet

time: sunday 04/05/2009 at 12pm
channel: thirteen/wnet