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Randy Ziegenfuss

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learning 2.0 skills comparison

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 05 Feb 09
     
    This is a very good blog article that compares skills of the past to what are typically referred to as "21st century skills."
Patty Johnson

21st Century Home Page - 0 views

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21st century skills

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  • Patty Johnson on 06 Feb 09
     
    This site explains the importance of technology in the classroom and how new skills need to be learned to take full advantage of it.
Randy Ziegenfuss

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assessment intel projects assessing pbl education

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  • Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provid
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      Randy Ziegenfuss on 05 Feb 09
       
      testing comments
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 04 Feb 09
     
    When assessment drives instruction, students learn more and become more confident, self-directed learners. Assessing Projects helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part of their teaching and help students understand content more deeply, think at higher levels, and become self-directed learners.
Randy Ziegenfuss

Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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cellphone education

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  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 16 Feb 09
     
    The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
Angela Eckhart

Groups divided over graduation tests -- themorningcall.com - 0 views

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  • Local business leaders accused school districts of graduating students who are unqualified and unprepared for the work force while educators argued that more testing won't improve student achievement during a special public hearing of the state board of education Thursday at Parkland High School.
    • Angela Eckhart
      Angela Eckhart on 11 Feb 09
       
      And here I thought that businesses looked for students with more problem-solving skills and creativity!
  • ''You cannot make the assumption that scoring less than proficient is failure
  • Adams told the board that many of her students have a learning disability or simply don't test well, but are diligent workers and eager to learn. They are now college students, skilled workers, or serve in the armed forces. But they might not have been able to graduate if they were required to pass a test. Some would have eventually passed, but others would have dropped out, she said.
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  • Gates said he worried that students in other countries will soon get the best jobs in business and technology.
    • Angela Eckhart
      Angela Eckhart on 11 Feb 09
       
      And THIS is why we need to integrate more technology in the classrooms...without losing the social aspect of the classroom.
anonymous

At Parkland, other school districts, more students learning online -- themorningcall.com - 0 views

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  • As the first generation of computer-literate students works their way through the school system, they are learning from interactive programs.
  • The technology also helps teachers craft individual lesson plans based on a student's ability and share data with parents.
  • She said she brings her students to the computer lab before she starts any new chapter in math to give the class a pre-test. Odyssey creates an instant spreadsheet for Clipper, showing her how every student answered each question.
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  • That lets Clipper know which lessons she can cover quickly, which ones she will have to dwell on to make sure her students understand, and whether she needs to create any special challenges for students who might get bored by the subject matter.
  • ''It's become a tool that not only helps guide group instruction, but also individualizes it.''
  • Parkland has devoted many of teacher workshops to computer skills training, Giaquinto said.
  • Another strength of the program is that parents can log onto the Web site and track their child's performance,
  • And if a student forgets a textbook at school, a parent can get access to the whole volume over the Internet.
  • The books online are so similar to their print versions that students can complete assignment without the print textbooks.
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      Lauren Tomaszewski on 11 Feb 09
       
      saving trees as well with online texbooks
Randy Ziegenfuss

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUC... - 0 views

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john seely brown social networking social learning learning2.0

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  • virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.
  • continuous learning and for the ongoing creation of new ideas and skills.
  • f access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life,
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  • much of what we will need to know will not be what we learned in school decades earlier
  • It is unlikely that sufficient resources will be available to build enough new campuses to meet the growing global demand for higher education—at least not the sort of campuses that we have traditionally built for colleges and universities.
  • created a series of building blocks that could provide the means for transforming the ways in which we provide education and support learning.
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) movement,
  • support and expand the various aspects of social learning.
  • based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning.5
  • Light discovered that one of the strongest determinants of students’ success in higher education—more important than the details of their instructors’ teaching styles—was their ability to form or participate in small study groups.
  • The Cartesian perspective assumes that knowledge is a kind of substance and that pedagogy concerns the best way to transfer this substance from teachers to students.
  • Mastering a field of knowledge involves not only “learning about” the subject matter but also “learning to be” a full participant in the field.
  • networked communities of practice
  • its principles have been adopted by communities dedicated to the creation of other, more widely accessible types of resources
  • In a traditional Cartesian educational system, students may spend years learning about a subject; only after amassing sufficient (explicit) knowledge are they expected to start acquiring the (tacit) knowledge or practice of how to be an active practitioner/professional in a field.
  • change the game in education
  • using technology to enhance social learning within formal education, it also seems likely that a great deal of informal learning is taking place both on and off campus via the online social networks that have attracted millions of young people.
  • By enabling students to collaborate with working scientists, this movement provides a platform for the “learning to be” aspect of social learning.
  • what happened when his students were required to share their coursework publicly
  • As more of learning becomes Internet-based, a similar pattern seems to be occurring. Whereas traditional schools offer a finite number of courses of study, the “catalog” of subjects that can be learned online is almost unlimited. There are already several thousand sets of course materials and modules online, and more are being added regularly. Furthermore, for any topic that a student is passionate about, there is likely to be an online niche community of practice of others who share that passion.
  • We need to construct shared, distributed, reflective practicums in which experiences are collected, vetted, clustered, commented on, and tried out in new contexts.
  • We now need a new approach to learning—one characterized by a demand-pull rather than the traditional supply-push mode of building up an inventory of knowledge in students’ heads.
  • embedded in a community of practice
  • emergence of new kinds of open participatory learning ecosystems
  • Randy Ziegenfuss on 03 May 09
     
    The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning. What do we mean by "social learning"? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note that social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions. The focus is not so much on what we are learning but on how we are learning….
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