Young people communicate and collaborate every few minutes –
it’s an obsession. They text, MSN, BBM, Myspace, Facebook, Facebook message, Facebook
chat and Skype. Note the absence of email and Twitter. Then there’s Spotify,
Soundcloud, Flickr, YouTube and Bitorrent to share, tag, upload and download
experiences, comments, photographs, video and media. They also collaborate closely
in parties when playing games. Never have the young shared so much, so often in
so many different ways. Then along comes someone who wants to teach them this
so called 21st C skill, usually in a classroom, where all of this is
banned.
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21st Century Skills are so last century! - 64 views
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"I'm always amused at this conceit, that we adults, especially in education, think we even have the skills we claim we want to teach. There is no area of human endeavour that is less collaborative than education."
Shift Happens - Now What? at Change Agency - 0 views
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While it is nice to have administrative support for new technology purchases, a "technology purchasing frenzy" is simply NOT the correct response to the realization that our schools are not doing enough to prepare students for their futures. This is really about changing adult perspectives and adult behaviors to create student-centered classrooms that exemplify research-based best practices around learning. It's not about buying the latest, greatest, and most expensive tech toys on the market. Expensive tech in the hands of educators who haven't made changes to their behaviors and instructional practice are no better than the good old chalk board, pencil, and paper. Even worse, expensive tech that the teachers see no use for will end up just collecting dust in a storage room.
newliteracy » home - 0 views
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Curriculum 2.0
AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools - 0 views
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Online instruction, says best-selling education author, will change schooling as we know it--if we're lucky
Techcourseblog: The New Learning Paradigm - 0 views
Podcast trumps lecture in one college study - 0 views
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Students who listened to a lecture via iTunes U outperformed those who attended in person -- pause button a factor
Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Very important article from the NY Times about the need for visual literacy.
Wisdom Lost, Wisdom Found Wiki - 0 views
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Wikispace for ADE Asia 2008 project focusing on digital storytelling. This is a collaborative project that can be done anywhere around the world. Join the story!
ed4wb » Blog Archive » Insulat-Ed - 0 views
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In an effort to stave off obsolescence, using an operational model developed when information/expertise and group-forming were expensive or impossible, many schools are attempting (often under the banner of security) to insulate their members from the out
A Colorado Conversation » Home 2009 - 0 views
Measuring 21st-century skills - New resource helps teach 21st-century skills - 0 views
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Free online guide maps digital-age skills to social studies projects and tasks
Top Ten Web 2.0 Must-See Videos that Superintendents & Other School and District Leader... - 0 views
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I have a presentation to do for superintendents and other school leaders. I want to show a video or two to them to educate them about web 2.0 pedagoies and to convince them to begin experiencing the world of web 2.0 themselves. So… I want to see what you think. If you can help with compiling the list, please comment below and nominate a video. Thank you.
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I have a presentation to do for superintendents and other school leaders. I want to show a video or two to them to educate them about web 2.0 pedagoies and to convince them to begin experiencing the world of web 2.0 themselves. So… I want to see what you think. If you can help with compiling the list, please comment below and nominate a video. Thank you.
lrNING 21 - A place to learn about effective education in THIS century - 0 views
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This is a PD course being offered at the International School of Beijing. Remote participants (non ISB employees) are encouraged to lurk or participate by contributing to forum discussions or blogging on the Steps, readings, and/or essential questions presented in the course.