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mrsstacycampbell

How Do You Define 21st-Century Learning? - Education Week - 1 views

  • The term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world.
  • The research, to date, has provided no evidence that having either computers or whiteboards in schools has any positive effect on students’ reading and writing proficiencies.
  • Twenty-first-century learning means that students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures. Students demonstrate the three Rs, but also the three Cs: creativity, communication, and collaboration.
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  • Embracing a 21st-century learning model requires consideration of those elements that could comprise such a shift: creating learners who take intellectual risks, fostering learning dispositions, and nurturing school communities where everyone is a learner.
  • Twenty-first-century technology should be seen as an opportunity to acquire more knowledge, not an excuse to know less.
  • We need classroom leaders setting an ambitious vision, rallying others to work hard to achieve it, planning and executing to ensure student learning, and defining the very notion of teaching as changing the life paths of students.
  • Twenty-first-century learning will ultimately be “learner-driven.”
  • But being able to Google is no substitute for true understanding. Students still need to know and deeply understand the history that brought them and our nation to where we are today.
  • Technology allows for 24/7 access to information, constant social interaction, and easily created and shared digital content. In this setting, educators can leverage technology to create an engaging and personalized environment to meet the emerging educational needs of this generation.
  • he term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world.
  • Twenty-first-century learning embodies an approach to teaching that marries content to skill. Without skills, students are left to memorize facts, recall details for worksheets, and relegate their educational experience to passivity. Without content, students may engage in problem-solving or team-working experiences that fall into triviality, into relevance without rigor
  • Twenty-first-century learning will ultimately be “learner-driven.”
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    This article showcases 11 different education experts and their definitions of 21st-century learning.
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    Takes many view points on how to define 21st-Century Learning and Skills
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    This is a nice tool for teachers to use. I know that I can definitely take a look at it for my own classroom. Learning definitely changes with the use of technology and how accessibly it can be for students to learn facts.
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    I think this resource is very applicable to my classroom because one of my main goals to to have my students evaluate and create which is what a lot of the article discussed. Overall this is more for teacher use as it is discussing 21st century skills and what they look like. Also it comes from the Teacher PD source book. I shared an article that was very similar to this that covered 10 signs of a 21st century classroom.
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    I really like the way that this article breaks down 21st Century learning and dispels the myth that 21st Century Learning is the same as learning with technology. I especially like the quote that you highlighted that states "Twenty-first-century learning means that students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures." I think this is a useful article that helps us focus on what will truly help students become 21st Century thinkers, instead of just figuring out ways to have them do their work on the computer.
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    This is a great article and gives me a great definition to wrap my head around. One item I feel is really applicable to learning in no matter the date is "...students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures." Otherwise really good information! Thanks for sharing this.
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    I think this website is a great start when it comes to thinking about teaching 21st century skills. Before you can understand something, you must understand the definition of it. I think it is important to note that 21st century learning is not the same as teaching/learning with technology. This website would be especially useful for teachers, because they need to understand 21st century learning before they can teach it. Great article, thanks for sharing!
davidstanfield

Introduction to the SAMR Model Video | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    This video gives an introduction to the SAMR Model that teachers can use to evaluate technology integration.
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    This video gives an introduction to the SAMR Model that teachers can use to evaluate technology integration.
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    Hey David, I liked this video! It really gave a good layout to what SAMR does, what the idea behind it is, and just helped get the idea out. It will come in handy when it comes time for us to break it down and figure out how we want to portray these ideas in our project!
Mary Kimani

How Do We Prepare Students For Jobs That Don't Exist Yet? - 1 views

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    The main thing that makes this blog post l is the youtube video embedded at the bottom. Sir Ken Robinson, critically evaluates the current school system and shows how it needs to be changed to prepare students for the jobs that do not even exist yet
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    Sir Ken Robinson is one of my favorite educational speakers. His Ted Talks are all amazing. I like this resource just for its usefulness in making people think. It would make a great tool for teachers to take to administrators who are reluctant to move towards a new teaching style or technology implementation. I am lucky enough to work with an administration that already thinks this way, but I know that there are some districts that do not see a need for a change in our education system. I also think that every parent and student also need to see this video. It is important to understand why your teachers are trying new things and teaching new skills. It helps when everyone is on board. Thanks for sharing this source!
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    Great find for all teachers. I think many teachers, including college professors are falling behind in this. I think the higher ed people need to replace their training manuals with this.
Lisa Bindert

The use of flipped classrooms in higher education: A scoping review - 0 views

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    Highlights * Flipped class has the capacity for building lifelong skills for 21st Century learners. * Misunderstanding of the key elements necessary for successful flipping * Under-utilisation of conceptual frameworks and design in flipped classroom * Need for stronger evidence in evaluating student outcomes in flipped classrooms
na409102

Measuring the flow experience of gamers: An evaluation of the DFS-2 - 1-s2.0-S074756321... - 0 views

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    This article discusses the use of the Dispositional Flow Scale to measure the effects of flow in the areas of sports, work and music. It also discusses a present study that was done to try and replicate the Wang et al (2009) study
Heather Davis

LessonCast | Next Generation Teacher Preparation - 3 views

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    This website helps teachers connect and share their ideas with other users in order to enhance classroom learning
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    This website helps teachers connect and share their ideas with other users in order to enhance classroom learning
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    I like the fact that the lesson cast offers teachers support with assigning, monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating assignments.
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    I LOVE lesson cast, it offers great support for all teachers. You can practically find anything you are looking for. This is mainly for teacher use but students benefit from it based on the quality of lessons teachers are giving them.
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    I have never heard of LessonCast until your post. I looked around the website and I plan on adding into my personal diijp library because it seems like an awesome resource. I like how it has lessons that are already aligned with certain standards.
Christa McCaulley

State of the State: How OER Helps States Collaborate on Standards-Aligned Curriculum | ... - 0 views

  • Open educational resources (OER), a variety of freely available, online educational offerings, can support states in the collaborative development of a strong common curriculum.
  • OER Commons allows states to save, evaluate, and share resources they find on the site, as well as to create new and remix existing resources—toward the creation of custom collections of high quality Common Core-aligned resources.
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    How OER helps provide a variety of freely available online educational resources, that can support the collaborative development of a strong common curriculum.
Jared Kannenberg

Here's How Gamer-Teachers Use Video Games In The Classroom - Forbes - 1 views

  • As of fall 2013, 74% of K-8 teachers were using digital games
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    Gaming in the classroom
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    I thought that this was an interesting article when it came to evaluating teachers and the difference between teacher who use gaming in the classroom and those who don't I think however it would have been more interesting to hear more about the experiences of the "Barrier Busters" and the "Naturals" . I definitely appreciated the point that was made about how for Naturals gaming is not considered as some innovation and instead as a teaching tool. What would be the significance of having the number of years the teacher has been teaching?
Ms. Rebecca Carton

Math, PBL and 21st Century Learning for All Students - 0 views

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    Jason Ravitz Independent Research and Evaluation Professional Considering project-based learning as a way to teach 21st century competencies? Or perhaps you have already used PBL in your schools and want support for your discussions with administrators, parents or board members?
Laura H.

10 Signs of a 21st Century Classroom | Edutopia - 1 views

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    signs of best practice in classrooms
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    A list of ways to know if you have successfully created a 21st century learning environment.
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    Best practices for teachers to evaluate and gear their instruction towards 21st century learning skills.
Mary Kimani

Educators Evaluate 'Flipped Classrooms' - Education Week - 0 views

  • "It's a thing you do in the context of an overarching pedagogy," not the pedagogy itself, he said.
  • What's the best use of your face-to-face instruction time?" Mr. Bergmann said.
  • engaging reluctant learners continues to be a challenge
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  • while another student goes home and gets no help," Mr. Twomey said. "In the flipped model, both of those kids come back to the classroom after receiving the content
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    This article provides further evidence that there needs to be some understanding about flipped classrooms it is only a tool  And if implemented correctly can be a useful tool
trina79

B's Book Love : STEM in English Language Arts Class - 0 views

  • 1. Design a tiny house for ANY character or author. This is the project that got my students and me hooked on STEM. After reading some informational texts on the environmental benefits of tiny houses (science), watching researching tiny house clips (technology), and evaluating character traits, my students designed a tiny house to fit the needs of a character in the novel we were reading. They used Floorplanner.com to design their houses (engineering) while calculating square footage so as not go over the 500 sq ft mark (math). I can not tell you how much my students loved this project. They really got into the design symbolism for the character and especially enjoyed seeing their designs come to life in 3D. 
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    This blog entry has great suggestions for ways to have students do STEM in language arts. I plan to use some of these activities as options for my 6th graders independent reading projects. My favorite STEM idea provided was designing a tiny house for any character or author.
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