A Look Inside the Classroom of the Future
Over the next generation, whether they work for corporations, small businesses, government organizations, nonprofits, or other organizations, many U.S. employees will move from working primarily with American colleagues, bosses, and customers for American organizations in U.S. cities, to being part of global teams. As leaders, they will use technology to bridge geographic divides, build organizations that transcend borders, and work together with colleagues from around the world on issues such as climate change, food security, and population growth -- issues that require multinational teams coming together to effect change. For those whose work is closer to home, the changing demographics of the U.S. will mean that their colleagues, customers, and neighbors may look a lot less like them, and have fewer shared histories than American colleagues, customers, and neighbors have shared in the past. 1. Leverage real-world case studies. 2. 3. 4. 5.
14 Currencies For the Digital Learner
The Kinds Of Skills That Transcend Content Areas by Terry Heick Traditionally, learning is formatted by content, and that content formatted again by content areas (usually reading, writing, math, science, and social studies). Learning is evolving–and not simply by the tools that actuate it. Whether or not they’re old learning with a new coat of paint, or genuinely represent a paradigm shift in learning priorities, it is difficult to doubt their constant application in a 21st century world that is connected, digital, omni-social, and multi-faceted. There are new skills–or newly underscored concepts–that transcend content areas, in this way functioning as natural pathways out of old thinking. These currencies have been tossed around educational banter for years now, movingly so by Ken Robinson’s “Changing Educational Paradigms.” With the proper technologies, they are content-infinite. Currency is just a way of expressing value. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
21st Century Learning
Course Overview EMMA videos 2015 - C21-Intro from EMMA MOOC Channel on Vimeo. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will introduce you to 21st century learning tools and practices. You will examine how they can facilitate learning and teaching, and evaluate your own digital literacies, create your own personal learning environment, find open educational resources, explore virtual worlds and more! If you want to complete all the activities, you will need 2-3 hours per week. Throughout this MOOC, peer-support is crucial. 'Conversations' section at the bottom of each page, where you can post comments and reply to others.Blogs, which are available within the EMMA platform and provide a space to document your learning. If you are on Twitter, please use the hashtag #21mooc to communicate with other participants. * Special note: Images without an attribution belong to the public domain; most of them can be found in pixabay.com. Learning Objectives Outcomes Course Structure Teacher Coauthor Paul Rudman
Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluency for the Digital Age by Ian Jukes
These are my notes from Ian Jukes‘ METC 2010 presentation, “Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st Century Fluency for the Digital Age” at the METC 2010 conference. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I haven’t heard Ian present in quite a few years. He was the first person at an educational technology conference (TCEA) to really make my head spin and inspire me to get on the digital learning mardi gras float. Quoting Don Tapscott, “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World” consumers vs prosumers In have value entertain teach students today may be literate by the standards of the 20th century, but won’t be literate by the standard of OUR society today we need to move to 21st century literacies or fluencies – when you are literate, you still have to think about what you are going to do next – fluencies are unconscious skills, you just “know” what to do next hands up: who learned to ride a bicycle? decisionmaking, time management, etc. How many times have you heard some
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