Educreations: DIY Whiteboard Video Tutorials on the iPad. The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today (iTunes link).
The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. A Web version of the startup's whiteboard app has been available for some time now, but it's the native app for an iPad that makes this sort of tool make sense -- it's so much easier to write on a whiteboard with the finger than it is with a mouse, if nothing else. Educreations is hardly the only app like this available for the iPad (I covered the very similar app ShowMe over on MindShift this summer, for example). But while Educreations' iPad app might be late to the whiteboard app market, its entry is a solid one. Educreations hosts the video creations themselves on educreations.com (helpful for schools that block YouTube), and teachers using the site can opt to share videos privately with a set group of students or share them publicly so anyone can see them.
The 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology in Schools. Nsdcff.wikispaces.com/file/view/Characteristics+of+a+21st+Century+Classroom_Sample.pdf. A Journey Toward Education: Traits of the 21st Century Teacher! One of the biggest questions that has faced our division over the last three years as we began movement toward a modern educational institution, was the question of what 21st Century Learning looks like.
We see videos and lists of traits that these 21st Century Learners possess, and feel the push to provide meaningful, relevant learning to a generation eager to be challenged. However, it isn’t enough to hear the descriptions of these students set to music, to read articles describing how they are different. An Australian curriculum to promote 21st century learning. Summer 2010 A national curriculum: looking forward Peter Hill offers leadership during a time of significant change in the learning landscape for Australian education.
In this article, he outlines the development, conceptualisation and structure, use and accessibility, and support for an Australian curriculum in preparation. Over the next few years, teachers and school leaders will be engrossed in realising a significant milestone in our nation’s educational history—the development and implementation of a world-class Australian curriculum that will prepare young people for life in the 21st century. Curriculum is always complicated and stirs the passions. What is curriculum? Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Andreas Schleicher, OECD Education Directorate Anyone wondering why knowledge and skills are important to the future of our economies should consider two facts.
First, jobs: employment rates are higher among people with more education than among those with less. This has continued to be the case during the crisis. Also, in those OECD countries where college education has expanded most over recent decades, learning differentials for college graduates have continued to rise compared with school leavers, for instance. Their pay did not decrease, unlike that of low-skilled workers. This is a good, concrete argument for skilling up. 21st C skills. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below.
The 21st century teacher should be able to : 1- Create and edit digital audio Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Free Audio Tools for Teachers. Teaching the 21stC Learner. 21st Century Learning: Acting Nationally and Internationally. In a year that has seen a renewed national emphasis on education, with the establishment of the Interim National Curriculum Board and the release of the Draft National Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA 2008), Curriculum Corporation will host its 15th Annual Conference, C21st Learning: Acting (inter) Nationally, on 10 and 11 November in Melbourne.
Australian education systems are re-defining the educational goals for young people, and in the process reconceptualising the attributes, skills and dispositions young people should expect to develop during their education. Mrkeenan.com. 21st century learners. Most of us have met them.
If we teach in independent schools, higher decile schools or teach in more privilaged areas they are becoming increasingly common. Even the more short sighted of teachers can see them increasing as our future becomes increasingly electronic. Whether we call them Digital Natives (Marc Prensky), Digital Children (Ian Jukes), Neo-Millennials (Dieterle-Dede-Schrier) or 21st Century Learners (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach ) they are increasingly becoming the future of teaching.
21 Characteristics of 21st Century Learners. Whether you are a teacher, a parent, an aunt or an uncle, it is important to know that today’s students are wildly different in some ways, from past generations. 21st Century learners… Want to have a say in their education.
They’ll respond better when their voices are heard.Often have higher levels of digital literacy than their parents or teachers. They don’t know a world without computers.Expect transparency in their parents, teachers and mentors. They’ll see right through you. Like this post? Vision of learners in the 21st Century.
Vision Statement May 1996 Submitted to the Training, Research and Evaluation Sub-committee and Executive Committee of the SchoolNet Advisory Board.
