Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning?

2. Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning? It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived!

3. What Do We Mean by 21st Century Learning? Considering the results of this study… How will your schools need to be shaped for the future? Share one exciting thing your school is doing to ensure that your students will be prepared for success in a global knowledge/information age. 16 Major Characteristics of Schools and School Systems Capable of Preparing Students for a Global -Knowledge/Information Age Source:AASA Year Long Study:Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century

4. Source: http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skill21.htm

5. Two Perspectives Tom Carroll, NCTAF Peter Vaill Antioch University http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/tom_carroll.swf http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/peter_vaill.swf

6. Time Travel Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change: ...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215). Seymour Papert (1993) In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

7. “Children are native to cyberspace, and we, as adults, are immigrants.” - Douglas Rushkoff

8. What is a Blog? A blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Since its appearance in 1995, blogging has emerged as a popular means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world. [1] Will Richardson’s videohttp://campus.belmont.edu/chenowit/dragonstale/WebLoggingSmall.mov Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

9. Where Can You Blog? Personal Blogging WebsitesFree Sites: BloggerEdublogsEasyjournal Kidzlog What does a post look like? Non-free Sites: TypePad Teacher or Community SitesAllow a teacher or parent to set up a number of individual blogs under a single website. A little more difficult to set up, but one of the advantages of these community sites is that there are often controls or restrictions for the administrator: Free Sites: Classblogmeister created by David WarlickGaggle free email and blog hostinghttp://www.takingitglobal.org/ - lots of social networking toolshttps://www.imbee.com/Secure Social Networking and Blogging

10. Examples of Blogs? Elementary BlogsGordon Blume’s kids video Blooming Bloggers PPT Anne Davis’ WebQuestHer and Will’s Connection Kathy Cassidy- First Grade – Charlotte Wilson- Kindergarten

11. How Can I Find Out More? Tapped InSupport Blogging.com (High school teacher)Vicki Davis writes some helps for beginning bloggers: 10 Habits of bloggers that win How and why beginners (newbies) should blog. How to add tags to your blog. Setting Up a blog (Other Teachers)Teachers Teaching Teachers Teaching With Blogs Learn About Blogging in Education ABPC WIKI Policies

12. What ideas do you have so far for ways you could use blogs? Either to further your own professional development and personal learning or with students?