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Vicki Davis

Deeper Learning: Defining Twenty-First Century Literacy | Edutopia - 8 views

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    What is 21st century literacy and how do we help students become better communicators? Rebecca Alber says: "In today's world, being literate requires much, much more than the traditional literacy of yesterday. According to the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), twenty-first century readers and writers need to: Gain proficiency with tools of technology Develop relationships with others and confront and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments"
Patti Porto

Project Based Learning - 16 views

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    The Project-Based Learning designs on this website were created by West Virginia teachers who worked with the WVDE Office of Instruction through participation in the Teacher Leadership Institute, the Secondary PBL project, content-specific professional de
Suzie Nestico

YouTube - Freedom Sticks - 11 views

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    Alec Couros ~ short video about the frustrations of working with school filters and how to circumvent in using what Alec calls "freedom sticks." AKA - programs on USB drives. Alec acknowledges how any/most students can and do find their way around the filter, anyway.
Jacques Cool

U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested - NYTimes.com - 8 views

  • not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction
  • students are given a problem — they could be told, for example, to pretend they are a mayor who needs to reduce a city’s pollution — and must sift through a portfolio of tools and write analytically about how they would use them to solve the problem.
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    "(...) not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction (...)"
Jacques Cool

A 21st Century Education Film Series - 12 views

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    The twelve first-person films that make up this series explore three related themes, each in its own way at the center of current debate about what works, and what's needed, to help students succeed during school and in life.
Sandy Kendell

Drape's Takes: On Empathy, Culture, and Barriers to Making Technology Integral to Teaching - 12 views

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    "technology now serves as a critical thread that ties many of us together in learning" "until collaboration is a behavior naturally included in every educator's definition of teaching, then many of the contemporary promotions of technology in education will continue to be little more than spit in the wind."
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    "technology now serves as a critical thread that ties many of us together in learning" "until collaboration is a behavior naturally included in every educator's definition of teaching, then many of the contemporary promotions of technology in education will continue to be little more than spit in the wind."
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