Time Management Principles. Evalutech Technology Literacy and 21st Century Skills. Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College. This is a follow-up to my recent research about Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age.
I’ve spent considerable time thinking about how to alter the classes I teach to re-center them on a core of flexible learning. In all of my classes this semester, students will be completing a variety of learning projects that involve alternative ways to learn (e.g. blogging, making mindmaps, teaching a lesson, making a video presentation, or designing a non-digital game). The difficult part about including these alternative learning methods is teaching the students all the necessary technology skills first. Most of my students are the traditional freshman-level age-range (18-25). For the most part, they “get” technology (cell phones, facebook, video games, and gadgets), but they haven’t been taught how to do anything productive with technology – at least, not with regards to learning or career skills.
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Glad you're here. I'd love for you to check out all the ways we can connect. Each time you engage in a conversation, dialogue or speech with the intention of convincing another person to do, think or act upon anything, you are making a presentation. You don’t have to be in front of large crowds to be giving a presentation or using visual aids such as PowerPoint to be giving a presentation. Presentations are given everyday and are one of the most powerful communication tools exist and has the ability to propel your business, career and sales to ultimate levels. Mistake # 1: Failure to Focus on the Audience How many times have you sat thru a presentation where the entire focus was only on the person presenting? Mistake # 2: Lack of Clearly Defined Objectives Too many times, presenters fail to successfully connect the dots between the audience’s objectives and their own objectives.
Mistake # 3: Information Overload Mistake # 4: Putting the Audience to Sleep! Mistake # 6: No Call to Action. Custom E-Learning Solutions - Kineo - In-house e-learning: skills guide. Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » THIS is a 21st Century Skill. I’ve struggled with the term 21st Century skill since many of these skills have been around for a long time. It’s not a discussion I’m passionate about but sometimes I’m struck but the clarity of a skill that is clearly new to this century. Video is indeed a 21st century skill. Take the recent contest for the Best Job in the World. Applicants were charged with creating a one minute video as their application. The ones highlighted on Presentation Zen are impressive. They are, of course, creative and imaginative and effective. Our schools need to re-evaluate how much time we spend on print alone and start broadening our focus.
How long will it be until employers will ask applicants to submit a video? Here’s my favourite from the contest. Bengrey, stephendownes, garrreynolds, bestjobintheworld, joebrennan Related Posts July 14, 2009 -- Are We Text Snobs? The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies. Updated February 2013Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008 Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups.
As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the 21st century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities, and social trajectories of individuals and groups. This position statement may be printed, copied, and disseminated without permission from NCTE. 21st Century Skills.