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21st Century Literacies - 1 views

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literacy 21stcenturyskills

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  • As society and technology change, so does literacy.
  • Develop proficiency with the tools of technology Build relationships with others to pose 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 multi-media texts Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
  • ablished national standards for English language arts learners that anticipated the more sophisticated literacy skills and abilities required for full participation in a global, 21st century community. The selected standards, listed in the appendix, served as a clarion call for changes underway today in literacy education.Today, the NCTE definition of 21st century literacies makes it clear that further evolution of curriculum, assessment, and teaching practice itself is necessary.Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities, and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively andcross-culturally• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety ofpurposes• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneousinformation• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environmentsClick here for the complete framework. Document and Site Resources Page Tools: Email Print RSS Share This On: del.icio.us Digg Newsvine Google Yahoo Blogger Facebook Most Popular Articles Read Emailed Discussed Secondary Section Journals NCTE / IRA Standards for the English Language Arts Welcome to the College Section Elementary Section Related Search Terms display:
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NASP Position Statement on Grade Retention - 1 views

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  • Despite a century of research that fails to support the efficacy of grade retention, the use of grade retention has increased over the past 25 years.  It is estimated that as many as 15% of American students are held back each year, and 30% - 50% of students in the US are retained at least once before ninth grade.  Furthermore, the highest retention rates are found among poor, minority, inner-city youth. Research indicates that neither grade retention nor social promotion is an effective strategy for improving educational success.  Evidence from research and practice highlights the importance of seeking alternatives that will promote social and cognitive competence of children and enhance educational outcomes
  • Some groups of children are more likely to be retained than others. Those at highest risk for retention are male; African American or Hispanic; have a late birthday, delayed development and/or attention problems; live in poverty or in a single-parent household; have parents with low educational attainment;  have parents that are less involved in their education; or have changed schools frequently.  Students who have behavior problems and display aggression or immaturity are more likely to be retained. Students with reading problems, including English Language Learners, are also more likely to be retained. 
  • While delayed entry and readiness classes may not hurt children in the short run, there is no evidence of a positive effect on either long-term school achievement or adjustment.  Furthermore, by adolescence, these early retention practices are predictive of numerous health and emotional risk factors, and associated deleterious outcomes. . Initial achievement gains may occur during the year the student is retained. However, the consistent trend across many research studies is that achievement gains decline within 2-3 years of retention, such that retained children either do no better or perform more poorly than similar groups of promoted children. This is true whether children are compared to same-grade peers or comparable students who were promoted. . The most notable academic deficit for retained students is in reading. . Children with the greatest number of academic, emotional, and behavioral problems are most likely to experience negative consequences of retention.  Subsequent academic and behavioral problems may result in the child being retained again.
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  • encourage  parents' involvement in their children's schools and education through frequent contact with teachers, supervision of homework, etc. . adopt age-appropriate and culturally sensitive instructional strategies that accelerate progress in all classrooms . emphasize the importance of early developmental programs and preschool programs to enhance language and social skills . incorporate systematic assessment strategies, including continuous progress monitoring and formative evaluation, to enable ongoing modification of instructional efforts . provide effective early reading programs . implement effective school-based mental health programs . use student support teams to assess and identify specific learning or behavior problems, design interventions to address those problems, and evaluate the efficacy of those interventions . use effective behavior management and cognitive behavior modification strategies to reduce classroom behavior problems . provide appropriate education services for children with educational disabilities, including collaboration between regular, remedial, and special education professionals . offer extended year, extended day , and summer school programs that focus on facilitating the development of academic skills . implement tutoring and mentoring programs with peer, cross-age, or adult tutors . incorporate comprehensive school-wide programs to promote the psychosocial and academic skills of all students . establish full-service schools to provide a community-based vehicle for the organization and delivery of educational, social and health services to meet the diverse needs of at-risk students. For children experiencing academic, emotional, or behavioral difficulties, neither grade retention nor social promotion is an effective remedy.  If educational professionals are committed to helping all children achieve academic success and reach their full potential, we must discard ineffective practices, such as grade retention and social promotion, in favor of "promotion plus" specific interventions designed to address the factors that place students at risk for school failure.  NASP encourages school psychologists to actively collaborate with other professionals and parents in their school districts to address the findings of educational research, and develop and implement effective alternatives to retention and social promotion.  Incorporating evidence-based interventions and instructional strategies into school policies and practices will enhance academic and social outcomes for all students
  • Neither repeating a grade nor merely moving on to the next grade provides students with the supports they need to improve academic and social skills.  Holding schools accountable for student progress requires effective intervention strategies that provide educational opportunities and assistance to promote the social and cognitive development of students. Recognizing the cumulative developmental effects on student success at school, both early interventions and follow-up strategies are emphasized.  Furthermore, in acknowledging the reciprocal influence of social and cognitive skills on academic success, effective interventions must be implemented to promote both social and cognitive competence of students.  NASP encourages school districts to consider a wide array of well-researched, evidence-based, effective, and responsible strategies in lieu of retention or social promotion (see Algozzine, Ysseldyke, and Elliott, 2002 for a discussion of research-based tactics for effective instruction; see Shinn, Walker, and Stoner, 2002 for a more extensive discussion of interventions for academic and behavior problems).
  • Retention does not appear to have a positive impact on self-esteem or overall school adjustment; however, retention is associated with significant increases in behavior problems as measured by behavior rating scales completed by teachers and parents, with problems becoming more pronounced as the child reaches adolescence. . Research examining the overall effects of 19 empirical studies conducted during the 1990s compared outcomes for students who were retained and matched comparison students who were promoted. Results indicate that grade retention had a negative impact on all areas of achievement (reading, math and language) and socio-emotional adjustment (peer relationships, self esteem, problem behaviors, and attendance).
  • Position Statement on Student Grade Retention and Social Promotion The increasing emphasis on educational standards and accountability has rekindled public and professional debate regarding the use of grade retention as an intervention to remedy academic deficits.  While some politicians, professionals, and organizations have called for an end to "social promotion," many states and districts have established promotion standards. 
  • The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) promotes the use of interventions that are evidence-based and effective and discourages the use of practices which, though popular or widely accepted, are either not beneficial or are harmful to the welfare and educational attainment of America's children and youth. Given the frequent use of the ineffective practice of grade retention, NASP urges schools and parents to seek alternatives to retention that more effectively address the specific instructional needs of academic underachievers.
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Teaching in a Participatory Digital World | CEA - 2 views

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teaching digital inquiry today's_learners

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  • to participatory social, academic, and political Web 2.0 environments with a new vocabulary and new temporal and spatial interactions.
  • new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes creative participation over presentation; encourages focused conversation and short briefs written in less technical, public vernacular; and facilitates innovative explorations, experimentations, and purposeful tinkerings that often form the basis of situated understanding that emerges from action not passivity
  • for changed mindsets about schooling, teaching, learning, and assessment.
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  • how they work with disciplinary knowledge, how they design for learning and assessment, and how they embrace technology.
  • the active, engaged, and collaborative teaching and learning relationships made possible by new educational technologies.
  • inquiry and technology opens the door to powerful new teaching and assessment practices that result in documented benefits for learners
  • If work is now about networking, question-posing, critical assessment of information and media, collaborative team work, and creating new knowledge and ideas, then today’s students require opportunities to develop the competencies they need for expert adult performance in digitally rich and net-connected school spaces.
  • The most powerful thing teachers do to engage students is to design engaging, meaningful, and authentic work and technology-enhanced learning experiences.
  • teachers have a greater effect on students’ learning outcomes than the schools they attend
  • only active participation in knowledge construction allows for deeper conceptual understanding of disciplinary concepts and increased motivation for learning
  • The thoughtful design of meaningful online learning experiences matters; teachers who design for peer collaboration and individual reflection on learning cultivate stronger learning outcomes.
  • evolution of Web 2.0 is blurring the line between producers and consumers of content and shifting attention from access to information to access to other people, and online experiences and virtual communities like Second Life are allowing people with common interests to meet, share ideas, and collaborate in innovative ways.
  • it is socially constructed and shared.
  • it is an active, situated, and engaged process of making meaning, interpretation, and developing deep understanding.
  • it supports deep and engaged learning, simultaneous articulation, creation, and reflection in participatory social networks and dynamic ecosystems.
  • teachers need continuous professional support while they learn to design rich, authentic learning tasks and support the evolving needs of their students.
  • he Galileo Network
  • teachers learn how to design and teach in a digital world by using rich online tools and resources; by collaboratively developing rich tasks and student inquiry projects; by actively accessing, evaluating, and developing online educational content and learning experiences; and by participating in online forums within IO to discuss student engagement, the design of great tasks, authentic assessment, and uncovering the curriculum.
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National Educational Technology Plan - 1 views

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technology educational plan

shared by danielle spencer on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • plan calls for engaging and empowering learning experiences for all learners.
  • focus what and how we teach to match what people need to know, how they learn, where and when they will learn, and who needs to learn.
  • Goal: All learners will have engaging and empowering learning experiences both in and outside of school that prepare them to be active, creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in our globally networked society.
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  • Goal: Our education system at all levels will leverage the power of technology to measure what matters and use assessment data for continuous improvement.
  • Goal: All students and educators will have access to a comprehensive infrastructure for learning when and where they need it.
  • Goal: Our education system at all levels will redesign processes and structures to take advantage of the power of technology to improve learning outcomes while making more efficient use of time, money, and staff.
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netp.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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application plan technology

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    p.13 goal 3.0 teaching
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    p.26- a model of learning
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    p.29 Whether the domain is English language arts, mathematics, sciences, social studies, history, art, or music, 21st century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.
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    p.41 Goal: Our education system at all levels will leverage the power of technology to measure what matters and use assessment data for continuous improvement. eg`s on p42 about online assessmentsédata
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    p.39Reaching Our Goal All learners will have engaging and empowering learning experiences both in and outside of school that prepare them to be active, creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in our globally networked society. To meet this goal, we recommend the following actions: 1.1 Recommendation: Revise, create, and adopt standards and learning objectives for all content areas that reflect 21st century expertise and the power of technology to improve learning. p.391.2 Recommendation: Develop and adopt learning resources that use technology to embody design principles from the learning sciences. p.391.3 Recommendation: Develop and adopt learning resources that exploit the flexibility and power of technology to reach all learners anytime and anywhere.
  • danielle spencer on 09 Mar 10
     
    p.29 we need adaptive learning skills that blend content knowledge with the ability to learn new things. This requires developing deep understanding within specific domains and the ability to make connections that cut across domains p.29today. We also need to know how to use the same technology in learning that professionals in various disciplines do.Professionals routinely use web resources and participatory technology such as wikis, blogs, and user-generated content for the research, collaboration, and communication demanded in their jobs.
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    p.59: connected teaching-personal learning networks
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    p.90 5.5 Recommendation: Design, implement, and evaluate technology-powered programs and interventions to ensure that students progress through our K-16 education system and emerge prepared for the workplace and citizenship.
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DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 2 views

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  • Students need teachers to teach them how to truly use technology to do great and wonderful things — unbelievable things.
  • new standards of National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) that had recently been published by International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
  • “Will students having netbooks increase their 21st Century Skills?
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  • One of the fundamental keys to getting our students to have 21st C
  • Skills is the use of integrated technology into their daily school work by using great projects.
  • ntury
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter-It's Not Just What's For Breakf... - 2 views

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  • Twitter is a viable place for learning about real-time events and a place where educators can take part in some really meaningful professional development.
  • n Educators Guide To Twitter
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What does UDL look like? | EdReach - 1 views

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  •  We have to create learning spaces that allow all students the best opportunity to learn.
  •  There’s no need for a student struggling in reading to fall behind in science if they can learn the information from an audio file or text-to-speech screen reading software.  
  •  Why should a student who struggles with writing be forced to take notes, when they can record the information for later playback, or type the notes on a computer.  
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  • why can’t we allow it for any student
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What Makes for a Master Teacher? | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • Never work harder than your students?
  • The reality is that the student is a vital participant and partner in education.
  • Master teachers understand that it has to be the student's unwritten goal to keep up with the master teacher, primarily because the master teacher has effectively become the role model for all of the students in the classroom.
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  • The master teacher must work much harder than the students, and work shoulder to shoulder with the students to achieve success.
  • effective teachers that use film appropriately as a learning tool.
  • One of the major tenets of a master teacher is that she always honors the students' time and effort for coming to school and she will do whatever it takes to give students the very best education possible that day and every day.
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What did you do in school today? | CEA - 4 views

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  • danielle spencer on 12 Feb 11
     
    Student Engagement for Effective Teaching and Deep Learning
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    I like the way the article split engagment into three categories social, academic, and intellectual engagement!
danielle spencer

For More Students, Working on Wikis Is Part of Making the Grade - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • how do you learn if you’re not able to make mistakes and get feedback?”
  • Working collaboratively, editing each other’s work publicly and getting feedback, sometimes from outside the classroom, can make many students uncomfortable at first .
  • gatekeeper of information.”
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  • orate communication in the business school at the Singapore Management University, said
  • students’ learning improved when they embarked on wiki projects.
  • least 15 year
  • wiki teams and allowing them to contribute from home and at their own pace works great.”
  • decentralization of the work was one of the advantages of using wikis.
  • go on to the wiki and edit the information ourselves.”
  • For More Students, Working on Wikis Is Part of Making the Grade
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School Improvement Plan - Google Docs - 17 views

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  • Kim W on 28 Sep 10
     
    I wonder about adding the Lochearn:CARES into a strategy for improvement?
  • iamlexus iamlexus on 29 Sep 10
     
    Great idea Kim.
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Putting the Pieces Together - 2 views

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marzano

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  • iamlexus iamlexus on 29 Sep 10
     
    This is an awesome resource for teaching in the classroom. I hope people will try some of the suggestions under using non-linguistic representations - as the PAT's show that organization is an area we need to work on in writing.
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Medina's Brain Rules: Informing Teachers as Researchers | Connected Principals - 2 views

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brain_rules medina

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  • research
  • try it and assess the results.  
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      Excersize: Fitness Brain Breaks...Like Amanda's Fitness breaks, or Liane's Brain Gym!...what else do you recommend that works??
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  • skills of empathy.
  • ten minute modules in your learning
  • animation and narration
  • advocates for animation
  • brain loves to learn by exploring the world around i
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      danielle spencer on 24 Oct 10
       
      ...the brain loves acting in the mode which one is trying to learn...What lesson have you recently used "acting in the role of"? -In Social we have been learning about journalism...interviews "in the role of a journalist" with the ipods was successful (learning about the early settlers).
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      danielle spencer on 24 Oct 10
       
      How do you teach animation? -I've found that role playing with the ipods is pretty engaging -The grade 1s LOVED domo animate -I am going to try goanimate with the Grade 5s
  • Teachers as Researchers
  • experimental teacher
  • one who deliberately, and collaboratively, tests techniques in learning as an active educational researcher, and draws conclusions about best practice from first hand trial and error.
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      danielle spencer on 24 Oct 10
       
      This reminds me of our PLC vertical alignment!
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      danielle spencer on 24 Oct 10
       
      "Teacher as researcher" The 21st century learner/teacher!! :)
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      iamlexus iamlexus on 25 Oct 10
       
      right on!
danielle spencer

Horizon Report 2009 - 3 views

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2009 research

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  • danielle spencer on 25 Oct 10
     
    The skills involved in writing and research have changed from those required even a few years ago. Institutions need to adapt to current student needs and identify new learning models that are engaging to younger generations.
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  • danielle spencer on 25 Oct 10
     
    Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate. Visualization tools are making information more meaningful and insights more intuitive.
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    This is transformative: cloud computing transforms once-expensive resources like disk storage and processing cycles into a readily available, cheap commodity
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    The emergence of cloud-based applications is causing a shift in the way we think about how we use software and store our files. Because they live on the network, applications in the cloud make it easy to share documents, collaboratively edit, and effectively manage versions.
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    Everything on the Earth's surface has a location that can be expressed with just two coordinates.
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    a personal web - that explicitly supports one's social, professional, learning and other activities via highly personalized windows to the networked world.
  • danielle spencer on 25 Oct 10
     
    Personal web (PLN) This transformation is gaining momentum. Blogging sites such as WordPress.com and EduBlogs, as well as tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr have become mainstream
  • danielle spencer on 25 Oct 10
     
    is that eventually it might be able to help people solve very difficult problems by presenting connections between apparently unrelated concepts, individuals, events, or things - connections that it would take many people many years to perceive, but that could become obvious through the kinds of associations made possible by semantic-aware applications.
  • danielle spencer on 25 Oct 10
     
    social/semantic web: Semantic-aware tools to help visualize relationships among concepts and ideas are just beginning to emerge, including mashups that not only plot data on graphs or maps, but also emphasize and illustrate conceptual links. For instance, WorldMapper (http:// www.worldmapper.org/)
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