Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning?

It isn’t just “coming”… it has arrived!

What Do We Mean by 21st Century Learning?

Source:AASA Year Long Study:Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21st Century

16 Major Characteristics of Schools and School Systems Capable of Preparing Students for a Global -Knowledge/Information Age

Considering the results of this study…How will your schools need to be shaped for the future?

Share one exciting thing your school is doing to ensure that your students will be prepared for success in a global knowledge/information age.

Source: http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skill21.htm

Two Perspectives

Tom Carroll, NCTAF Peter Vaill Antioch University

http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/tom_carroll.swf

http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/peter_vaill.swf

Time Travel

Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change:

...the technological gap between the school environment and the "real world" is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215).

Seymour Papert (1993) In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not(p.2).

“Children are native to cyberspace, and we, as adults, are immigrants.”

- Douglas Rushkoff

What is a Blog?

Will Richardson’s videohttp://campus.belmont.edu/chenowit/dragonstale/WebLoggingSmall.mov

A blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Since its appearance in 1995, blogging has emerged as a popular means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world. [1]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

Where Can You Blog?Personal Blogging WebsitesFree Sites:BloggerEdublogsEasyjournal

Kidzlog What does a post look like?

Non-free Sites:TypePad

Teacher or Community SitesAllow a teacher or parent to set up a number of individual blogs under a single website. A little more difficult to set up, but one of the advantages of these community sites is that there are often controls or restrictions for the administrator: Free Sites:Classblogmeister created by David WarlickGaggle free email and blog hosting http://www.takingitglobal.orghttp://www.takingitglobal.org// - lots of social networking toolshttps://www.imbee.com/ Secure Social Networking and Blogging

Examples of Blogs?

Elementary Blogs

Gordon Blume’s kids video

Blooming Bloggers PPT

Anne Davis’ WebQuest

Her and Will’s Connection

Kathy Cassidy- First Grade –

Charlotte Wilson- Kindergarten

How Can I Find Out More?

Tapped In

Support Blogging.com

(High school teacher)Vicki Davis writes some helps for beginning bloggers:10 Habits of bloggers that win How and why beginners (newbies) should blog. How to add tags to your blog.Setting Up a blog

(Other Teachers)Teachers Teaching Teachers

Teaching With Blogs

Learn About Blogging in Education

ABPC WIKI

Policies

What ideas do you What ideas do you have so far for ways have so far for ways you could use you could use blogs? Either to blogs? Either to further your own further your own professional professional development and development and personal learning or personal learning or with students?with students?