21st Century Skills Definitions The IMLS Project Team and Task Force considered the list of skills commonly referred to as "21st Century Skills" and modified it slightly to better align with library and museum priorities.1 The resulting list includes the following additions: Basic Literacy, Scientific & Numerical Literacy, Visual Literacy, Cross-Disciplinary Skills, and Environmental Literacy. Not every skill on this list will be aligned with every institution’s vision and mission. Further, not every community will prioritize the same skills. Library and museum leaders should consider this list as a starting point beyond which it should be customized to fit the unique character, requirements, and priorities of the institution and its audiences. Reason Effectively Use various types of reasoning (e.g., inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation Use Systems Thinking Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems Make Judgments and Decisions Solve Problems 1.
Top 25 Mobile Apps in Academia Everyone seems to talk endlessly about the role smartphones and other mobile technologies play in today’s classroom, especially when it comes to the best apps to get teachers organized and keep students learning. Higher ed has not inoculated itself against the spread, and ranks from the university president down to the lowliest of fresh meat tote around a smartphone or a tablet these days. Some, of course, benefit the faculty more than others, and the following prove pretty popular among professors these days. Dropbox:Thanks to the magic and wonder of cloud computing, professors on the go can access their files from other devices they’ve connected to their personal networks, meaning they never leave an important digital document at home!
iOS Apps List for Middle/High School & Adults with Learning Disabilities iOS Apps List for Middle/High School & Adults with Learning Disabilities Looking for iOS apps for adults or middle school through post secondary students with learning disabilities? Check out this app list out. Create with middle/high, post secondary students and adults in mind, this list includes basic apps to support individuals with learning disabilities. With deployment of iPad to students with learning disabilities at school and working with post secondary students creating a go to list of app has been a goal for a while. Lists like these are always a work in progress – check back for revisions! Here is a downloadable PDF of the OTs w Apps Basic App list for LD 7-28-2012. More for your OT iTool Kit if you work with adolescents and adults with learning disabilities. Carol Like this: Like Loading... About Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, AdEd, OTR/L, ATP OTR/L with 30 years experience in pediatrics, school based therapy and adult rehabilitation.
The Challenges and Realities of Inquiry-Based Learning Inquiry Learning Teaching Strategies Getty By Thom Markham Teachers in a rural southeast Michigan high school were recently discussing the odd behavior of the senior class. It seems the 12th graders were acting more civilly toward the junior class in the hallways. The prom was also quieter and more well-mannered than in previous years. The teachers’ explanation: Project-based learning. Here’s the back story. Stories like this are about to become more important to educators. This is a steep challenge because it forces education to cross a philosophic divide. Standardizing Valuable Skills To put a new system in place, a first key step is to disseminate and train every teacher on a clear set of performance standards to assess skills required for effective inquiry, such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. The challenge: Right now, a standards-based environment forces teachers to straddle the inquiry process. Assessing Collaborative Learning Figuring Out Knowledge
The 88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning Mobile learning is here to stay. Students and teachers alike can build entire libraries of apps and web tools that let them learn and do, well, anything. We’ve covered this just about every day and love finding new resources to share. So, if you haven’t yet, follow @edudemic on Twitter ! Our friends at Online Universities took a recent list of top iOS apps that ran on Edudemic and turned it into a handy visualization that any teacher could refer back to in a time of need. Brain Exercises Take advantage of these games, puzzles, and other brain teasers to build general cognitive skills needed to process and retain necessary information. Brain Blast – Flex Your Brain Muscle : Engage with some fun little brain teasers — mostly math-related — to keep the memory hot and the cognitive process chugging along. Quizzes and Flashcards Math Overcome math anxiety — or indulge the love — through some of the iPhone’s diverse selection of tools to help that mind crunch some tasty, tasty numbers. Science
Using UDL to Support a Diverse Classroom - nhinstitutes Introduction If you look at the makeup of most any classroom you will find students with different talents, learning styles, interests, and levels of engagement. As educators it's our job to provide lessons that meet the needs of all our students. Universal Design for Learning or UDL can make this task less daunting and create learning activities that all students can benefit from. Read on to explore how UDL can support a diverse classroom. Please note: If you are new to UDL, please check out the Introduction to Universal Design for Learning Institute, UDL - What is it and How Does it Work? Getting Started Let's start by reviewing what Universal Design for Learning is. Click here to read about the UDL Curriculum on the National Center for UDL website. Click here to learn about UDL and Expert Learners. There are links to additional information that you can check out as well. You can learn about the UDL Guidelines and the three principles in this video from the National Center on UDL.
The Inquiry Process Explained Visually for Teachers Learning is all about being curious and inquisitive. It is a process in which learners explore the unknown through their senses using both sensory and motor skills. Being involved and engaged in the learning task is the key to a successful learning journey and to elicit this kind of engagement from learners, teachers need to nurture a learning environment where students take responsibility for their learning and 'where they are only shown where to look but not told what to see'. Such environment definitely requires a solid approach and an informed strategy to learning one that is dubbed: inquiry-based learning. Inquiry-based learning is essential in developing the most solicited 21st century skills : problem solving and critical thinking.As a teacher, you might be wondering about ways to inculcate the precepts of strategy into your teaching and lesson planning.
The $20 App Starter Package After recently being crowned the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society, “Apps” have reached an unprecedented level with well over 600,000 currently available on the app store. The tremendous possibility that they bring to the classroom cannot be overstated, with PE Teachers from all over the world investing in and trialling their uses within the classroom. In recent months the level of take up and interest has reached new heights with an over 3000% increase in the number of Google searches related to mobile applications in PE. This search echoes the desire for new users to identify a series of apps that could be considered the PE Apps starter package. Heres my list of must have apps for new users. Coaches Eye Coache’s Eye is the premier video analysis app available on iPhone/iPad/iPod and Android devices. Easy Assessment SloPro The easiest way to produce beautiful slow motion videos. BaM Video Delay The most exceptional video feedback app I have seen on an iOS device.
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