Designing the 21st Century K-12 Classroom. Learning Spaces | Feature Designing the 21st Century K-12 Classroom Six design elements that shouldn't be left out of today's smart classroom By Bridget McCrea01/18/12 It's not enough to take a traditional K-12 classroom and fill it with technology. The smart classroom requires a more methodic approach that factors in the design of the basic shell, the teacher's space, and the students' independent and collaborative work areas. Schools that ignore this step, said Issac Herskowitz, director of New York-based Touro College's instructional technology program, will wind up with smart classrooms that fall short of their goals.
Here are six design elements that should be incorporated into the 21st Century classroom. 1. "You want students to be able to do discovery learning and to work together on projects and problem-solving," said Herskowitz. 2. 3. "You really want to make everything accessible for the teachers that are using the technology," said Herskowitz. 4. 5. How Technology Is Turning Students Into Techno-Wizards.
Web2.0. Technology. Www.<b>techlearning.com</b>/article/article.aspx?Id=13832. 10/15/2003 By: Judy Salpeter Learning for the 21st Century, a report from a new public-private coalition known as the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (www.21stcenturyskills.org), articulates a vision of how schools can best prepare students to succeed in the first decades of the 21st century. Central to the report's recommendations is a call for schools to focus on six key elements of 21st century learning: Core Subjects: The authors reaffirm the importance of the core subjects identified by No Child Left Behind but challenge schools and policymakers to expand their focus beyond "basic competency" to understanding the core academic content at much higher levels. Learning Skills: "To cope with the demands of the 21st century," the report states, "students need to know more than core subjects.
What's New Here? So what is new about the recommendations being made by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills? NCLB and 21st Century Skills: Contradictory or Complementary? 21st Century Content. Social networking’s good and bad impacts on kids. Social media present risks and benefits to children but parents who try to secretly monitor their kids’ activities online are wasting their time, says Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D., professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Rosen identifies potential adverse effects of social media, including: Teens who use Facebook more often show more narcissistic tendencies, while young adults who have a strong Facebook presence show more signs of other psychological disorders, including antisocial behaviors, mania, and aggressive tendencies.Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all children, especially preteens and teenagers, by making them more prone to anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders, and making them more susceptible to future health problems.Facebook can be distracting and can negatively impact learning.
Rosen says new research has also found positive influences linked to social networking, including: Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition. Login or Create New Account Member Spotlights RIT Launches Nation’s First Minor in Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture NMC Blog The 7 Things You Need to Openly Engage with Your Community iTUNES U Ideas that Matter and More High Quality, Free EdTech Content Sparking innovation, learning and creativity. > Publications > NMC on iTunes U > Creative Commons NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition The NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE Program. This ninth edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education.
This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less. Tags: 2012 107490 reads. Body Posture Affects Confidence In Your Own Thoughts, Study Finds. Sitting up straight in your chair isn't just good for your posture – it also gives you more confidence in your own thoughts, according to a new study. Researchers found that people who were told to sit up straight were more likely to believe thoughts they wrote down while in that posture concerning whether they were qualified for a job. On the other hand, those who were slumped over their desks were less likely to accept these written-down feelings about their own qualifications. The results show how our body posture can affect not only what others think about us, but also how we think about ourselves, said Richard Petty, co-author of the study and professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
"Most of us were taught that sitting up straight gives a good impression to other people," Petty said. The study included 71 students at Ohio State. After completing this task, the students took a survey in which they rated themselves on how well they would do as a future professional employee. Virtual conferencing using 3D avatars may be imminent. Human-looking avatars meet at virtual art gallery (credit: Jim Blascovich & Jeremy Bailenson) Researchers insist that conferences using 3D avatars are imminent because consumer technology has caught up with work going on in academic VR laboratories. The researchers point to three developments in the past year: the Microsoft Kinect tracking system for the Xbox, the Nintendo 3DS gaming device, and the triumph on “Jeopardy!”
Of IBM’s Watson computer. “These three events have been paradigm-shifting for avatar conferences,” says Dr. Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and co-author of Infinite Reality. With these technologies and a few VR laboratory tricks, your avatar would appear to be three-dimensional, and you’d feel immersed in the scene as you looked around at other participants from the eyes of your avatar, says Dr. Next for education: Teacher avatars | Technologies. Technology creates lifelike images of educators, complete with knowledge base for student interaction By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor Read more by Laura Devaney April 6th, 2011 Chemistry teacher Brenda Remus is developing her intelligent avatar. Hoping to brush up on colonial history, a student looks at a computer screen where a smiling, blinking Benjamin Franklin gazes back.
The student types a simple question. “Of course, I signed the Declaration of Independence along with the other forefathers of our country,” Franklin replies. But this isn’t a scene reminiscent of a Harry Potter movie, complete with moving figures in books and paintings. Ben Franklin’s avatar is a creation of Intellitar, a Huntsville, Ala., technology firm working to digitally clone educators and knowledge sources to make them more accessible to students at any time, from any place. An artificial intelligence (AI) engine captures thoughts, experiences, ideas, and personality traits of the person who is being cloned. One-Fifth of K-12 Teachers Think They Have the 'Right Level of Technology' in their Classrooms, Survey Finds.
FETC 2012 | News One-Fifth of K-12 Teachers Think They Have the 'Right Level of Technology' in their Classrooms, Survey Finds PBS LearningMedia released the findings of a national survey of grade preK-12 teachers about the role of technology and barriers to digital resources today at the Florida Education Technology Conference in Orlando. According to information released by the organization, "Ninety-one percent of teachers surveyed reported having access to computers in their classrooms, but only one-in-five (22 percent) said they have the right level of technology. " Other key findings of the study include: Seventy-seven percent of the teachers who responded said that they used technology to increase student motivation, making that the most common reason to bring it into the classroom. PBS LearningMedia will be at FETC 2012 through January 26 in booth 1236. About the Author Joshua Bolkan is the multimedia editor for Campus Technology and THE Journal.
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