Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:Taking the Digital Plunge - 2 views
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I consider experimenting fearlessly with digital connections to be part of my job as a teacher.
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Rod Corey on 23 Jun 10Experimenting fearlessly is an important step in redesigning education and encouraging the development of 21st century skills.
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Clay Burell is Korea's best kept secret, asking provocative questions about the changing nature of schooling. Jenny Luca is an Aussie dynamo, encouraging teachers to create meaningful service learning projects. Kevin Jarrett runs one of the most inventive elementary-level computer labs in New Jersey.
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The Tempered Radical
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Wouldn't young adults truly prepared for the 21st century have experience using computers to learn with—rather than simply about—the world
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Don't today's 12-year-olds need to recognize that future coworkers are just as likely to live on the other side of the world as on the other side of town?
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More and more of our kids will be working with their peers from around the world. Technologies like Skype and WebEx will change how they work. -
This is a great point which is why worldwide collaboration in education is so important to pursue and engage in.
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no one has taught them about the power of these connections
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few are using those networks to pursue meaningful personal growth
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Consider the potential: Students from different countries can explore global challenges together. Small cohorts of motivated kids can conduct studies of topics with deep personal meaning to them. Experts can "visit" classrooms thousands of miles away.
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Connecting with colleagues online
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no one has taught them about the power of these connections
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When does this education begin? Or, does it matter? The impulse of typing the "emotion of the moment" overides what the adolescent brain has been taught.
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each conversation includes opportunities for students to ask questions and feel a push against their preconceived notions.
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This sounds like such an awesome opportunity to encourage students to defend their thinking (which is something we want them to do) in a form where it doesn't feel like a teacher assignment
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experimenting fearlessly
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I began using discussion tools like VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com) to create electronic forums for my students to interact with peers around classroom content—with extraordinary results
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Voice thread is something I would like to use in the classroom. Students seem motivated by it.
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They love it! And there are plenty of colleagues you can learn from, like the 5th and 8th grade teams.
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"I love it when someone disagrees with me online because it makes me think again."
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Begin by signing up for a Twitter account
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Clay Burell
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our students have no trouble connecting, but no one has taught them about the power of these connections. Although tweens and teens may be comfortable using digital tools to build networks, few are using those networks to pursue meaningful personal growth. Our challenge as teachers is to identify ways that students can use these tools for learning.
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This points to the fact that we must teach students about digital citizenship. They are creating their own rules in these online environments. They need some direction to cut down on the terrible negative sides of online life.
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Model learning transparently.
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What if we build time into the daily classroom routine for checking and interacting with our digigal relationships. Teachers would visit their professional learning communities and students would do the same. This could be a once a week activity, or every day...
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The key to becoming an effective 21st century instructor is to become an efficient 21st century learner.
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Wouldn't young adults truly prepared for the 21st century have experience using computers to learn with—rather than simply about—the world?
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Once you've taken your digital plunge, share with students how the digital connections you engage in enhance your skills and deepen your knowledge. Model learning transparently.
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This is so important. Teachers need to be learners and must model how they learn with their students.
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but no one has taught them about the power of these connections
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I agree, but is this taught through the content we already need to cover, or a technology component?
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Our challenge as teachers is to identify ways that students can use these tools for learning.
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This is why I experiment with every new tool that bursts onto the teenage radar
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I wish I had the time to keep up with all the sites out there! I remember when we first showed VoiceThread - kids loved it. Now, they are more familiar and not as excited because they use it elsewhere, which is wonderful, but requires me to keep up on the "newer" options.
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This is why we need regular time scheduled into staff meetings or inservice days to just EXPLORE and collaborate with colleagues around new tools.
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Through Twitter, you'll get short online messages from fellow practitioners that point you to resources or pose questions.
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Then start by following some of the good education blogs written by teachers. Many of these are listed in the Support Blogging wiki (http://supportblogging.com) and on my list of resources (www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/16618841).
