21st Century Technology Skills for Children and Young Adults

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Agenda• Highlight programming ideas, computing devices,

and apps to help children & young adults thrive in a world based on technology.

• Offer ways to assess children & young adults on successes and failures in mastering these essential skills.

• Discuss the importance of limiting screen time and offer ways to teach other vital skills without the use of technology.

• Share what you are doing …

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-HE.pdf

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdf

Game-based Learning

Using competitive exercises to get students to challenge themselves with the hopes of motivating them to learn better and more meaningfully.

“The trick is not in knowing the single solution. It’s having lots of different

options and solutions to turn to.”

Source: Wired Magazine April ,2012, page 22

Kinect in Education• Robotic controls • Augmented Reality in Twitter• Enhance theatre arts• Navigate locations, operating systems etc.• Learn to play guitar• Explore anatomy• Learn sign language• Manipulate air drawings (Brainstorming)• Innovative presentation tool

Source: http://apps.kinecteducation.com/

http://www.trinity.edu/jdonald/bloodonthestacks.htmlhttp://www.civilization5.com/

http://game.nypl.org

Source: @librarygame

Game Development Workshops

Visit http://goo.gl/dQrnd for a list of game engines!

Quick Scratch Demo

Tablets for kids

Apps for Kids …

Source: http://goo.gl/4thCp

Source: http://goo.gl/3oLgu

Play

Reloop

Mocha VNC

SpeedX 3D

Offer classes on “fun”

technologies!

Share your space!

SPC Seminole Gaming Club

Allen County Public Library Creates High-Tech 'Hackerspaces'

Source: http://goo.gl/wHZyR

More information at: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/instruction/scavenger.html

Share your location. Offer incentives for users to check-in to your library and make it worthwhile for them!

Badges

http://www.openbadges.org

Source: http://goo.gl/PUaJp Source: http://goo.gl/6mPSd

Source: http://goo.gl/tVIc9 Source: http://goo.gl/SRZ5Q

Host Gaming nights

Have drawing contests/music guessing contests etc. using Draw Something or

SongPop etc.

Create your own infographics!

http://create.visual.ly/

http://infogr.am/

http://piktochart.com/

Also create animations – easily.

Information fluency is the intersection of information literacy, computer literacy and critical thinking.

So, I think information fluency is …

… having the ability to think critically while being able to apply this thinking across a variety of “literacies” (e.g., information, technological, cultural, scientific etc.) in order to “foster understanding, support sound decision-making, and guide action” in the classroom and beyond!

communicating, problem solving, evaluating, analyzing,

synthesizing, and reflecting on the entire

process.

Transliteracy

Source: http://goo.gl/WUwbn

The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.

Some strategies/practices that can help encourage information fluency/critical thinking.

Allow people to do the work and then follow up with them.

Pre/post testing using TRAILS

Free Education For AllWhat is the library’s

role?

Source: http://goo.gl/bzpl1

Source: http://atc21s.org/

Limit Screen Time!

Teens playing Settlers of Catan in Portland Public Library

Go outside!!

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