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Have You Mastered 21st Century Teaching Skills? Susan L. Davis blogs for Voices from the Learning Revolution and Getting Smart, where this post first appeared on August 23. The back-to-school flurry has begun. Teachers all around you are decorating bulletin boards, organizing their gradebooks, and collaborating on which ice-breaker games to use with their advisories. Your administration has prepared you well for the coming year. But have you mastered the 21st century skills every teacher should know? 1. Do you pop your topic into your preferred search engine and skim the first page of responses for something that looks good enough – just like our students do?
Do you know how to conduct a “clean” search that doesn’t predict what it thinks you are looking for based on your past searches? If you found yourself stuck on the first question, here are some resources to help you get back up to speed. Alan November is the guru of all things related to Information Literacy, if anyone can claim that title. 2. 3. 4. My Point About the author. 5 videos on connected learning from the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub [VIDEOS]
20 Must-See Facts About The 21st Century Classroom. The Current State Of Technology In K-12 7.62K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How many schools have a digital strategy? Find out in the current state of technology in K-12. What should students learn in the 21st century? By Charles FadelFounder & chairman, Center for Curriculum Redesign Vice-chair of the Education committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Visiting scholar, Harvard GSE, MIT ESG/IAP and Wharton/Penn CLO It has become clear that teaching skills requires answering “What should students learn in the 21st century?” On a deep and broad basis. Teachers need to have the time and flexibility to develop knowledge, skills, and character, while also considering the meta-layer/fourth dimension that includes learning how to learn, interdisciplinarity, and personalisation.
Adapting to 21st century needs means revisiting each dimension and how they interact: Knowledge - relevance required: Students’ lack of motivation, and often disengagement, reflects the inability of education systems to connect content to real-world experience. Are kids really motivated by technology? As a guy who delivers two-day #edtech workshops during my breaks from full-time classroom teaching, I’m often asked the same questions again and again: How can teachers use technology to motivate students? What digital tools do kids like best? My answer often catches participants by surprise: You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almost always ambivalent toward digital tools. While you may be completely jazzed by the interactive whiteboard in your classroom or the wiki that you just whipped up, your kids could probably care less.
Need proof? Early in my technology integration efforts, I set up a blog for my students, introduced it excitedly to every class, and proceeded to get exactly zero posts in the first two months of its existence despite my near-constant begging and pleading. But they weren’t, and my grand blogging experiment died before it ever really began. Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too. I'm a parent, and I'm not happy. My two kids go to "great" schools, they get great grades, and by all accounts they're very successful students. Unfortunately, they're illiterate. Right now, in their classrooms, they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes. " Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally. " And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information? " Not so much.
Those are all key components of what the National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now. Yours? Let me be clear, I'm not at all bashing their teachers, who sincerely care about my children and want them to do well in school. Technology, specifically the Web, expands the learning opportunities our connected children and their teachers have. As parents or educators or both, we're all learners first and foremost.