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Shifting School for 21 st Century Learners. Presented By: Dotti Ysais & Lila Bronson. 21 st Century Readiness for Every Student. Remember when teaching meant blue fingers and mountains of ditto paper?. Information Age Teaching and Learning.
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Shifting School for 21st Century Learners Presented By: Dotti Ysais & Lila Bronson 21st Century Readiness for Every Student
Remember when teaching meant blue fingers and mountains of ditto paper?
Information Age Teaching and Learning • 20th Century Model vs 21st Century Model Have our schools, curriculum and teaching practices changed to accommodate our 21st century learners in order to provide them the skills they need to live and compete in the global market place?
Learning Environments of the Future.... • Redefine schools from a Place to an Experience • Re-conceives educational space & time • Enables formal and informal learning 24/7 • Ensures development of the whole child • Involves the broader community in the learning process • Supports professional learning communities
What will be possible for this child? Image from Flickr: aaronfreimark
Who are Digital Learners? Brain scans show us that the Digital learners ignore the right side and bottom side of the page vs Eyes of older generations scan 1/3 of the way and then follow a Z curve pattern. Digital learners read text in an F pattern mimicking video game play 21st Century Fluency Project http://www.committedsardine.com/about.cfm
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Poll Everywhere • Poll Everywhere- cell phones used as survey tool in classroom- http://www.polleverywhere.org • How do you learn new information most of the time? • TV, film • Audio • Text • Internet • Which mobile device do you think will have the greatest impact in 21st century classrooms • iPads • Cell phones • iPods and/or E-Readers • Laptops • How do you think cell phones might be used educationally in schools?
Discuss in your group the reasons why you chose that device as having the most impact on 21st Century classrooms Share out the top 3 reasons in your group
What would you describe as the priority skills for graduates in the 21st Century? A High level skills for a knowledge economyB Creative production of ideas in multiple mediaC Critical information and technology literacyD Digital participation and citizenshipE Personal and social resilience
21st Century Skills • The “Four Cs” are Essential • Creativity = Thinking differently and in new contexts, interdisciplinary, arts- infused … • Critical Thinking = Analyzing, reflecting, assessing, discriminating, responding … • Communication-Editing, revising, writing, tweets, multimedia, texting … • Collaboration = blogging, publishing, presenting, sharing distributed files, PBL …
64% Content Creators | 30% active blog 54% read | 25% produce video 75% view | 25% Podcast consumers | 60% Post Photos | 73% have mp3 players | 33% share files peer to peer | 68% use IM | 75% have a cell phone | 97% play video games Source: PEW, January 14, 2009 http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Do we need to redefine literacy? Are there new literacies? | Is this about tools? | Blogs and Wikis vs …..? |Skills vs. Literacy vs. Fluency | Context
How Do We Redefine Literacy? http://www.metiri.com/features.html
Web 2.0 School 2.0 Library 2.0 Teaching 2.0 21st Century Skills 21st Century Literacy 21st Century Fluency
NET-S, T, and A Partnership for 21st Century Skills Horizon Report School 2.0 KnowledgeWorks 2020 Forecast ACOT-Today CoSN NSTA NSF NCTE MIT New Media USDOE etoolkit
What are the core components of the 21st Century Learning Skills?
Why is a 21st Century Curricular Framework essential to education in the 21st Century?
Where are the resources to not only create but to sustain this initiative? i.e. http://www.thinkfinity.org/
When is (will) your organization ready? http://www.p21.org/mileguide/
How is your district integrating technology for teachers and students? • LACOE opportunities • CDOL (http://cdol.lacoe.edu) • Teachstar online academy • Teams teaching circles • Mathstar • CTAP (http://ctap.lacoe.edu) • ITO • AB475 Admin Training • Technology Plan Support
How can you incorporate 21st century learning into your technology planning? • ISTE (NETS standards) http://www.iste.org/standards.aspx • USDOE (Schools 2.0) http://etoolkit.org/etoolkit/map • 21st Century Partnership Ning site – http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=510&Itemid=194 • Thinkfinity + partners http://thinkfinity.org • 21st Century Fluency Project http://www.committedsardine.com/about.cfm
21st Century Resources • 21st Century Skills- http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21 • 21st Century Information Literacy Project – • http://21cif.com/ • 21st Century Literacies - http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/ • 21st Century Schools -http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Web_2.0.htm • USDOE Schools 2.0 http://etoolkit.org/etoolkit/ • K12HSN- (CA High Speed Network tools) http://www.k12hsn.org/calaxy/ • American Association of School Librarians Standards for the 21st Century- http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm • Verizon’s Thinkfinity- http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Educator Resources • WeberTube - http://www.webertube.com/ • Khan Academy- http://www.khanacademy.org/ • ISTE Video Sharing website- http://www.istevision.org/ • Teacher Tube - http://www.teachertube.com/ • The Jing Project - http://www.jingproject.com/ • Twitter - http://twitter.com/ • Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/ • 4teachers.org - http://4teachers.org • Atomic Learning - http://www.atomiclearning.com/ • Chris Lehman’s Blog (Science Leadership Academy)- http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/