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What are 21st Century Literacies?Partnership for 21st Century Skills www.21stcenturyskills.org

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21st Century OutcomesSkills students need to master to succeed in the 21st Century

• 1. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes

• 2. Learning and Innovation Skills 

• Creativity and Innovation Skills • Critical Thinking and Problem

Solving Skills • Communication and

Collaboration Skills

Courtesy: The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

cited 9-08

• 3. Information, Media and Technology Skills

• Information Literacy • Media Literacy

• 4. Life and Career Skills

• Flexibility & Adaptability • Initiative & Self-Direction • Social & Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity & Accountability• Leadership & Responsibility

21st Century Digital Literacy

3 Steps (4:14)

You Tube (8-07)3 Steps for 21st Century Learning

Learn more at teacherhacks.blogspot.com

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Tech & Ed

How might we define technology?

What might our students say?

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Is there a gap? How might we bridge it with WHAT WE HAVE available?

Tech & Ed

Blogging for Teachers, Administrators & Students

Why Content Creation and Collaboration?

The Machine is Us

You Tube (8-07)

Michael WeschAssistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Kansas State University

http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd

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Hits• Google search term: blogs - 541,000,000

- 513,000,000

• Yahoo search term: blogs - 4,180,000,000 yes,that’s BILLION !!!

- 1,330,000,000

• Search term: Blog Freeware - 29,300,000 - 19,800,000 for blog freeware

(stats 9-18-08) (stats 10-29-07)

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ISTE: data..... • Q: How can technology develop higher order thinking and problem solving?

• Click on an answer below to find research evidence, references, and CARET selected studies:

• Technology can enable the development of higher order thinking skills when students are taught to apply the process of problem solving and are then allowed opportunities to apply technology in development of solutions.

• Technology can enable the development of higher order thinking skills when students work in collaborative groups while using computers to solve problems.

• Technology can enable the development of critical thinking skills when students use technology presentation and communication tools to present, publish, and share results of projects.

• Courtesy ISTE/CARET (Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology)Cited 9-08

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What the experts say… blogs

Through the use of blogs, it is suggested that teachers and learners are becoming empowered, motivated, reflective and connected practitioners in new knowledge environments.

• Critical FriendsIncorporated Subversion

http://incsub.org/blog/2005/blogs-anywhere-high-fidelity-online-communication

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What the research says… blogs

• promote critical & analytical thinking

• are powerful promoters of creative & intuitive thinking

• combine the best of solitary reflection & social interaction

Fernette & Brock Eide (2005)

Richardson (2006)

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Blogging enhances:

• critical & analytical thinking (analysis)• creative & intuitive thinking (synthesis)• solitary reflection & social interaction (evaluation)

Have you achieved your Bloom’s today?

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Blogs for cognition (can meta be far behind?)

Class Archive of student workMeredith’s Page Teen Apathy, HS Journalism Class

Interesting sidebar: School web page is a blog

Class Reading Study Guide and Author Comments‘The Secret Life of Bees’

Will Richardson Blogs. Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools

for the Classroom (Corwin Press 2006)

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Blogs as portals

Dynamic content embedded into stagnant web page content:

MS Language Arts

Ms Palmer 2nd Grade

Announcements

High School

Middle School

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Popular Blogs

www.blogspot.com Sample

Register using gmail account

www.wordpress.com Sample Some navigational skills needed, advantage: can

add websites to blogroll

www.weblog.com Sample

Very user friendly, low on bells & whistles!

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Wiki’sA wiki is a page or collection of Web pages

designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content

http://en.wikipedia.org

CGUHS Math Wiki

Wiki to promote

Wiki to instruct

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Google Docs

www.google.com

• Create a login

• Access a wide array of tools

• Collaborate, work from home (or off site), transport via internet versus email attachments and flash drives

• Also available in ADE’s IDEAL portal

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What else can you do?

• Slide www.slide.com

• Slideshare.net – put your PPT online

Podcasts from your phone

• PodOmatic www.podomatic.com

• GCast www.gcast.com

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Sheltered environmentsGaggle.netDistrict can purchase upgraded license ‘e-rateable’

– English with Walther

– Frazier’s Fantastic Blog

– Search AZ Blogs (typically requires password to – view, based upon administrator and teacher setup)

Class BlogMeister.com – David Warlick3rd Grade Middle High SchoolBethune School, Phx Cholla MS, Phx Rye, NY

Edublogs.org WordPress with an educator’s twist

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Credits

The Machine is UsYou Tube (8-07)

Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd

Incorporated Subversionhttp://incsub.org/blog/2005/blogs-anywhere-high-fidelity-online-communication

3 StepsYou Tube (8-07)

3 Steps for 21st Century Learning.Learn more at teacherhacks.blogspot.com

Blogs. Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools forthe Classroom Will Richardson (Corwin Press 2006)

2¢ Worth David Warlick (Class Blogmeister)

Bloom’s Taxonomy http://officeport.com/edu/blooms.htm