21st century classroom
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Awareness does not guarantee change, but most certainly there is no change without awareness.
James Baldwin
• Awareness• Understanding• Action
TODAY’S GOAL
Is to generateAwareness
Reflection Dialogue Debate
Action
within your classroom, department, and school
I can’t see the future but I know it’s coming fast
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It’s not that hard to wind up knee deep in the past Gary’s social meter
Technology in Perspective• Technology is not a substitute for high-quality
teachers in every classroom
• How technology is used is more important than whether it is used
• Technology should not be a solution in isolation, but rather one aspect of curriculum being upgraded
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• Be realistic when advocating for technology
Back-ChannelsNotetaking: Students can take their notes during a class in the backchannel.
Commenting: Students can also comment on the ideas being share or discussed in class
Questions: Backchannel provides students an additional way to ask and share questions
Helping One Another: When one student poses a question on the backchannel, another student might very well answer that question before the instructor can get to it.
Opening the Classroom: Some backchannels are private others like Today’s Meet and Twitter are public
Offer Suggestions: What is working and what is not working, also suggest useful readings, activities, or topics for subsequent classes.
DO WE SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE AS OUR STUDENTS?
Do you find change, things that are different, not always having the answer, putting yourself out there terrifying?
+Are children and youth processing information differently?
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com
So what is 21st Century pedagogy?
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com
International Society for Technology in Education ITSE
http://Internet4Classrooms.com/
Buick Institute for Education BIE Outstanding for PBL
Help Students To Learn To Use Their Minds Well
The purpose of the schools should be to teach students to learn to develop good habits of mind and to develop skills of thinking across subject matter.
VALUE OF A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA There's only one valid
measure of the high school curriculum: How well does it prepare students when they are launched into their adult lives?
Abolish it, if by diploma we mean that all students must graduate as though they were heading for the same 20th-century future.
Grant Wiggins Educational Leadership March 2011 | Volume 68 | Number 6 What Students Need to Learn Pages 28-33
What is an Education?
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of
education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goal of Education?
• To get our students to be independent learners, to enjoy learning, to develop good habits of mind and to develop skills of thinking and questioning across subject matter?.
“The biggest obstacle to school change is our memories."
Allen Glenn
CLASS OF 2024- THIS YEAR’S PRESCHOOL
+ the future is hereThey came to be because…? Today
What skills are most important for job success when hiring a high school graduate?
Work Ethic 80%
Collaboration 75%
Good communication 70%
Social Responsibility 63%
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving 58%
AMA American Management Association
…business sector increasingly values people who can use their knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate, and solve problems."
Of the High School Students that you recently hired, what were their deficiencies?
Written communication 81%
Leadership 73%
Work Ethic 70%
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 70%
Self-Direction 58%
AMA American Management Association
“Prepare for School, or Prepare for life?”
Alan NovemberIf we have to tell you what to do you can’t work
here
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Communication
Collaboration
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
+How does this translate to us, to our students? Where do these skills flourish in your class, school?
4 C’s
Creativity Collaboration
Communication Critical Thinking
HOTS
(Higher Order Thinking Skills)
The World of Schools
WE REWARD
Passive Learning Convergent Thinking Low Level Tasks Competition Knowledge of Facts Memorization Comprehension Working Alone Quick Answers
WE VALUE
Active learning Divergent Thinking Holistic Tasks Co-operation High Level Thinking Problem Solving Collection & Analysis of Data Working Collaboratively Reflection
WHAT YEAR ARE YOU PREPARING YOUR LEARNERS FOR?
1991 ?
2000 ?
2025 ?
Amend your mission statement ?
Change
In times of change,
Learners inherit the earth
While the learned find themselves
Beautifully equipped to
deal with a
World that no longer exists.Eric Hoffer
THE BASIC ELEMENTS IN DESIGNING CURRICULUM THAT NEED UPGRADING.
Click icon to add pictureContent Skills
Assessments
Students and teachers should be blogging, creating documentaries,
Skyping with kids in other countries, podcasting, and creating digital portfolios.
Create an online profile for Julius Caesar, Holden Caulfield, Atticus Finch, or John Wilkes Booth?
What interests would they put down for those figures?
How would they present themselves online?
Who would their friends be?
What events would be on their calendar?
What would their status updates be like?
Imagine the depth a student could go into developing such a project for a literary character or historical figure.
Or, as Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs says, don't do that.
Have them do a poster or oral report instead. That'll hook 'em. And go ahead and laminate that poster, or in Dr. Jacobs words, mummify it.
WHAT TO CUT?
WHAT TO KEEP?
WHAT TO CREATE?
TIMELY AND TIMELESS
wallwisherWolfram AlphaGap MinderCustomized search engineSkype in the classroom
Blog
Wiki
Podcast
A type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other.
A multimedia digital file made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer.
A web site that allows users to add and update content on the site. Wikis end up being created mainly by a collaborative effort of the site visitors.
Silvia Tolisano
Recast content for timeliness:
• Breakthroughs • Contemporary issues• International perspectives• Modern forms of expression• Be vigilant about technology in all aspects of learning
..A deliberate need to replace and to shed dated content, skills, strategies, and assessment
DE- GIMMICKIFCATION OF WEB 2.0 TOOLS
Visuwords Google art proj
ect Quizlet Khan Academy
http://tinyurl.com/4q97xmk
TAXEDO
WE NEED ...
Dictionaries Responders Calculators Timers
WHAT’S THE COST?
+Project Based Learning
a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks.
Groups Class Small group Individual
How we educate our children is more important than how much work we require
+ Characteristics of PBL are Authentic Learning Activities
Real-world relevance: Activities match as nearly as possible the real-world tasks of professionals in practice rather than decontextualized or classroom-based tasks.
Ill-defined: Activities require students to define the tasks and subtasks needed to complete the activity Complex, sustained tasks: Activities are completed in days, weeks, and months rather than
minutes or hours. They require significant investment of time and intellectual resources. Multiple perspectives; Provides the opportunity for students to examine the task from different
perspectives using a variety of resources, and separate relevant from irrelevant information. Collaborative; Collaboration is integral and required for task completion. Value laden: Provide the opportunity to reflect and involve students; beliefs and values. Interdisciplinary: Activities encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and enable learners to play
diverse roles and build expertise that is applicable beyond a single well-defined field or domain. Authentically assessed: Assessment is seamlessly integrated with learning in a manner that
reflects how quality is judged in the real world. Authentic products: Authentic activities create polished products valuable in their own right
rather than as preparation for something else. Multiple possible outcomes: Activities allow a range and diversity of outcomes open to multiple
solutions of an original nature, rather than a single correct response obtained by the application of predefined rules and procedures.
(From Reeves, T. Cl., Herrington, Jl, & Oliver, R. (2002).Authentic activity as a model for web-based learning. 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, USA.)
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Interdisciplinary Issues and Themes
Urban Planning: Gateway Cities
Global Ambassadors;
Lifelong Fitness
Financial Literacy
Arts Fusions
Mercator Map
1569!
Peter’s Map
THE BASIC ELEMENTS IN DESIGNING CURRICULUM THAT NEED UPGRADING.
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Assessment
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SOCIAL MEDIA
generally it refers to websites that allow their users to share information about themselves.
refers to the online tools that promote easy transmission of ideas and conversations
wikis Facebook Twitter blogs digital poster tools chat rooms photo sharing podcasts txts
Replace dated PD practices with new
onesWe meet by
habit...not by purpose.
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Differentiating Professional Development Adult learners in professional settings have various
needs for different types of work. We fall prey to RUTS in staff development. Randomness does not serve the learner nor their
students. Cafeteria style fits today’s adult learners. Strategic Professional Grouping: vertical, gravel
level, expanded local, global teams, feeder pattern, extended team, targeted cross grade
CONSIDER A RANGE OF VENUES AND TOOLS
Various groupingsLabsWorkshopsWork sessionsOn-line coursesStaff development days based on dataObservationsCoachingVideo conferencingPLN
What will you alter, change, upgradefor learner engagement? Make a commitment.
ScreenplaysTeleplaysPod castsDocumentariesFacebook historical figuresText messagingIPAD
Skype
Kindle
Wikis
Media criticism
Web quests
Digital portfolios
Blogs
Curriculum 21: New Essential Curriculum for 21st Century Learners (ASCD) Alexandria, VA; January 2010 Heidi Hayes Jacobs, editor.
Start every meeting with a new web 2.0 application or site to share with the group.
Instructionally targeted Every teacher bring 2 students http://www.curriculum21.com/
+ On the Horizon Mobile computing Cloud Two to three years: Game-based learning and open content. Four to five years: Learning analytics and personal learning
environments The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible
via the internet is increasingly challenging educators to revisit roles; As IT support becomes more decentralized, the technologies used
are increasingly based not on school servers, but in the cloud; The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing; and
Technology continues to profoundly affect the way educators and students work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed
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Elected President of the United States, 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Great Educators
May we know them.
May we learn from them.
May we be one of them.
Thank you
Mark R. Truitt
954-483-4566