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Stephanie Cooper

The Importance of Teaching Technology to Teachers - TheApple.com - 0 views

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  • 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: > 1. Develop proficiency with the tools of technology > 2. Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally > 3. Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes > 4. Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information > 5. Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts > 6. Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10
       
      This sounds right on track with our QEP mission!
  • Teachers are hungry to use technology in their classrooms. But they don’t. While part of this lack of usage stems from problems with education reform that emerges from administrators and education boards not fully understanding the technologies themselves, another part of teachers not using technology in the classroom comes from the simple fact that they don’t know how to use the technologies, let alone how to incorporate these technologies into their classrooms. In some cases, the teachers don’t know about the technologies at all.
  • How in god’s name can we talk seriously about 21st Century skills for kids if we’re not talking 21st Century skills for educators first? (URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First )
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  • Take a minute and ask yourself what technologies you are well versed in. Have you posted to YouTube? Do you use PowerPoint to aid in your lectures? What other technologies do you use? Do you have a Twitter account? Make a list. When you have your list made, consider your colleagues. Do they know these technologies? Do they know how they can use them in the classroom? Is there a technology that you know one of your colleagues knows that you would like to be familiar with? Now, instead of waiting for somebody to put together a workshop on one of these technologies, consider creating your own workshop. Think about it. You’re a teacher. You know these technologies. Is there really a difference in teaching what you know about Google Earth to your colleagues and teaching it to your students? Within your own school you can create a technology club (much like a book club, except that instead of reading a book a month, you experiment with a technology each month). Get together as a group and discuss the technologies and how you could use these to aid your teachers. This is exactly what I’m doing with the colleagues I know are interested in using the technology but don’t know how. Sure, you may have to wait for education reform to allow you to use these technologies, but if you start using them, you can readily become one of the advocates who aids in getting the reforms to education that we need to teach these technologies to our students.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10
       
      This sounds like something we could incorporate into the QEP classes/workshops that Hugh & Tom conduct. A "tech club" might even appeal to people not currently involved in QEP at this moment.
Keith Hamon

MediaShift . Learning in a Digital Age: Teaching a Different Kind of Literacy | PBS - 0 views

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  • we shouldn't consider someone literate if they can consume but not produce media.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      This is why information technology is one of the twin pillars, along with writing, of the QEP. And why visual constructs & technological applications are considered writing literacies. I think the language is a bit confused, but I understand the implications for developing literacy in the 21st Century.
  • The literacy of the future rests on the ability to decode and construct meaning from one's constantly evolving environment -- whether it's coded orally, in text, images, simulations, or the biosphere itself. Therefore we must be adaptive to our social, economic and political landscape. Those of us living in this digital age are required to learn, unlearn and learn again and again.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      This could be the heart of ASU's QEP. What happens when the environment itself is coded with information that we need to acquire? Isn't it already so coded?
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
     
    A new kind of technological literacy is emerging. While a certain amount of technical skills are important, the real goal should be in cultivating digital or new media literacies that are arising around this evolving digital nerve center. These skills allow working collaboratively within social networks, pooling knowledge collectively, navigating and negotiating across diverse communities, and critically analyzing and reconciling conflicting bits of information to form a clear and comprehensive view of the world.
Keith Hamon

Essential Skills for 21st Century Survival: Part I: Pattern Recognition « eme... - 0 views

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    The ability to spot existing or emerging patterns is one of the most (if not the most) critical skills in intelligent decision making, though we're mostly unaware that we do it all the time. Combining past experience, intuition, and common sense, the ability to recognize patterns gives us the ability to predict what will happen next with some degree of accuracy. The better able we are to predict what will happen, the more intelligent we become. So, you might say that the purpose of intelligence is prediction.
Keith Hamon

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  • Keith Hamon on 08 Jun 11
     
    A white paper from Adobe about 21st Century literacy.
Keith Hamon

Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 28 Mar 11
     
    describes the rhetorical and 21st century skills as well as habits of mind and experiences that are critical for college success.
Stephanie Cooper

Would You Hire Your Own Kids? 7 Skills Schools Should Be Teaching Them| The Committed S... - 1 views

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  • "First and foremost, I look for someone who asks good questions," Parker responded. "Our business is changing, and so the skills our engineers need change rapidly, as well. We can teach them the technical stuff. But for employees to solve problems or to learn new things, they have to know what questions to ask. And we can't teach them how to ask good questions - how to think. The ability to ask the right questions is the single most important skill."
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Jan 11
       
      This is an example of the need for critical thinkers in the real world!!
  • "All of our work is done in teams. You have to know how to work well with others. But you also have to know how to engage the customer -- to find out what his needs are. If you can't engage others, then you won't learn what you need to know."
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Jan 11
       
      Connectivism at work!
  • Where in the 20th century, rigor meant mastering more -- and more complex -- academic content, 21st century rigor is about creating new knowledge and applying what you know to new problems and situations.
Keith Hamon

The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation. Developing 21st century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty. Reaching and engaging today's learner.
  • Keith Hamon on 16 Feb 10
     
    Through surveys, interactive brainstorming sessions, and a final community vote, the EDUCAUSE community identified their top five challenges in teaching and learning with technology.
Thomas Clancy

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  • The ability to think critically is arguably the most important skill for the 21st century person.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10
       
      Well, critical thinking is one of five writing literacies taught in QEP classes. Is it the most important?
    • Thomas Clancy
      Thomas Clancy on 17 Jun 10
       
      Indeed, we are all about including the five "literacies" in our writing opportunities, even though, technically, "literacy" cannot be pluralized!
  • Instead of using the Five W’s for developing content (they’re the basics for writing a successful news piece), use the Five W’s to analyze any post/piece of writing.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10
       
      This is a nice technique to add to the QEP toolbox, and has a dual use for both writing and reading. Keep in mind that QEP should also address reading, as Tom points out to us.
  • Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10
     
    critical thinking demands objective examination of a topic and then a conscious response to that examination.
  • Thomas Clancy on 17 Jun 10
     
    critical thinking demands objective examination of a topic and then a conscious response to that examination.
Keith Hamon

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PLN 21st century skills literacy

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  • Keith Hamon on 27 Sep 10
     
    A collection of resources, with links, for building PLNs.
Keith Hamon

Building an Online Presence More Important Than Ever - 0 views

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  • For older students, Silvia Tolisano, a technology and 21st-century learning specialist, offers a comprehensive blog post on helping students take their blog skills to the next level. She focuses on the ability of blogs to help students become better writers, and be part of a network and contribute to a larger community.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      This is close to the heart of what we are doing in ASU's QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    Educators have long cautioned students about posting damaging information online, but now it's also becoming important to build a positive digital footprint. When should students start building their online persona? The earlier, the better.
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