Putting 21st Century Skills to Action. Flickr:MuirCeardach What do educators mean when they talk about 21st century skills? If they’re referring to things like collaboration, resourcefulness, smart use of technology, and problem-solving, here’s strong evidence showing how these skills are becoming a natural part of students’ daily lives. Sharon Noguchi writes in the San Jose Mercury News about the changes student activists in the Bay Area are making in their own schools. Exhibit A: An eighth-grade class at Renaissance Academy that’s on a mission to bring updated technology to its school. Students can see how much power they have in making an impact in their own lives. Exhibit B: One junior took it upon himself to include students’ voices in changing the school-year calendar. Exhibit C: A 13-year-old created a Facebook page to lobby to keep three of his teachers who’d been pink-slipped.
These accounts of student empowerment and savvy exemplify what we mean when we refer to 21st century skills, and why they’re so important. TPACK in 3 Minutes. Vad behöver eleverna lära sig för framtiden? Flip This: Bloom’s Taxonomy Should Start with Creating. Teaching Strategies Chris Davis, Powerful Learning Practice LLC By Shelley Wright I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. Conceived in 1956 by a group of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom, the taxonomy classifies skills from least to most complex. Many teachers in many classrooms spend the majority of their time in the basement of the taxonomy, never really addressing or developing the higher order thinking skills that kids need to develop.
Rather than starting with knowledge, we start with creating, and eventually discern the knowledge that we need from it. Here’s what I propose: we flip Bloom’s taxonomy. Creating at the Forefront In media studies we often look at the creation of print and digital advertisements. What We Thought The Future Of EdTech Would Look Like In 2006. Ska man mäta framtidskompetenser? | Jan Hyléns webbplats. I denna vecka, 23-24 januari, hade Institutet för kvalitetsutveckling, SIQ, sin årliga konferens – Bättre Skola. På konferensens andra dag höll jag en presentation på temat: Ska man mäta framtidskompetenser? Utgångspunkten var att arbetsgivare, både i Sverige och internationellt, har visat ett ökat intresse för att skolan ska träna bredare kompetenser än de traditionella ämneskunskaperna. Men vilka är dessa kompetenser, kan de tränas i skolan och kan man mäta dem? Och inte minst viktigt – bör man försöka mäta dem? Du hittar mitt bildspel här. Det vi kallar framtidskompetenser är viktigt och något som bör uppmärksammas mer i skolan. 1. 2.
Slutsatsen är att vi tydligare måste behöver en svensk diskussion om vilka kompetenser vi anser vara de viktigaste för framtiden, lyfta fram dem i skolarbetet och ge läraren mandat att bedöma elvernas förmågor.