Using Web 2.0 Digital Tools to Encourage Critical and

Creative Thinking

Toni TheisenACTFL TOY 2009

NationalLanguageTeacher@actfl.org

theisent@gmail.com http://

tonitheisen.wikispaces.comLoveland High SchoolLoveland, CO 80538

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Using Web 2.0 Digital Tools to Encourage Critical and

Creative Thinking

Essential Question

How can 21st century skills and tools engage and empower learners to

become active global digital citizens?

Guiding Questions

1. How can a teacher engage these emerging global digital citizens in meaningful, relevant tasks?

2. How can both teachers and students build collaborative partnerships for learning?

3. Why is collaboration, most likely, one of the most important 21st century skills?

Education for all-FIFA

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” -Hebrew Proverb

A Thought…

The 21st centur

yis

here.(Isn’t it time we started preparing students for it?)

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/

Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. -Marc Prensky- “Don’t bother me Mom-I’m learning”

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Monumental Shift

“radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish” —Sir Ken Robinson, Bring on the Learning Revolution

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We must ‘collaborate or perish’-across borders, cultures, disciplines, and firms, and increasingly with masses of people at one time.

—Tapscott & WilliamsWikinomics

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Global Competency:"Learn "with" the world...not just "about" the world."

“Teaching students about the world is not a subject in itself, separate from other content areas, but should be an integral part of all subjects taught. We need to open global gateways

and inspire students to explore beyond their national

borders.” Vivien Stewart, Becoming Citizens of the World, Educational Leadership

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein

Critical Thinking

Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Evaluation

• Synthesis

• Analysis

• Application

• Comprehension

• Knowledge

Higher

Lower

Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking

Report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement, “Charting the Path

from Engagement to Achievement”

• 41%, said they went to school because of what they learned

• 23% reported that they went to school because they like their teachers

• 65% said they ‘like discussions in which there are no clear answers’;

• 82% reported that they would welcome the chance to be creative in school.

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills?

•Communication•Collaboration•Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

•Creativity and Invention•Information and Technology Literacy

•Global Awareness•Self-Direction

http://johncaswell.com/blog/

Communication

Collaboration

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Creativity and Invention

Global Awareness

Self-direction

Information and Technology Literacy

21st Century students want to create content

Not just consume it!

Digital Tools-2 views

• Teacher viewpoint: Sees individual tools and what could be done with the tool

• 21st century learner viewpoint: Sees the task and chooses the best tool

Don’t throw tech into the classroom and hope for good things

• Focus on the change in pedagogy, not the tech

• It’s about changing the relationship between a teacher and a learner

• Use tech for student-centered personalized environment

• Cut back on lectures-teachers don’t have all the answers.

• Empower students to collaborate-Don Tapscott

“Look, I agree with most of what you’re saying, but I’ve got kids in my class who don’t have the devices, who don’t have the access, he said. What are we supposed to do when every student can’t do this?”

“I just looked at the person and said great question. How you going to fix that?”

-Will Richardsonhttp://weblogg-ed.com/

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But the 21st century learner needs your expertise!

Image source:http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008

Gaming vocabulary

• MMO or MMORPG- Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (World of Warcraft game)

• Badge of honor

• Leveling up

• Epic fail

• Epic win

“3 billion hours of play a week” -Jane McGonigal, game developer, Institute for the Future

Lots of play--so what does that mean?

• 10,000 hours of play by age 21• 10,000 hours is the same as all the

hours a student spends in class from grades 5-12 with perfect attendance

• 10,000-”Outliers” by Malcolm Gladstone-means one becomes an expert

-Jane McGonigal

Why is the virtual world so powerful?

• Epic story• Lots of positive feedback• Lots of collaborators to help along the way• Gamers are inspired to collaborate, be risk-

takers, “stick with a problem until solved”• Meet and work with other gamers all over the

world-without judgement.-Jane McGonigal

Games-what’s happening?

• Not just violence• “World without oil game experiment

asks,”How would you live this epic adventure?

• Evoke-in collaboration with the World Bank-to solve world problems such as hunger, poverty..

• More time gaming, but in real-world contexts

-Jane McGonigal

http://johncaswell.com/blog/

Communication

Collaboration

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Creativity and Invention

Global Awareness

Self-direction

Information and Technology Literacy

How do teachers develop their own

PLN? (personal learning

network)

Wikispaces

BlogsNings

FacebookTwitter

PLN

New ACTFL Community

Diigo

My Twitter PLN

http://johncaswell.com/blog/

Communication

Collaboration

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Creativity and Invention

Global Awareness

Self-direction

Information and Technology Literacy

Guiding Questions

1. How can a teacher engage these emerging global digital citizens in meaningful, relevant tasks?

2. How can both teachers and students build collaborative partnerships for learning?

3. Why is collaboration, most likely, one of the most important 21st century skills?

Essential Question

How can 21st century skills and tools engage and empower learners to

become active global digital citizens?

The 21st centur

yis

here.(Isn’t it time we started preparing students for it?)

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/

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• http://www.hillsdaleca.ca/assets/images/soocer_south.jpg • http://boatingsa.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/fifa.png

• http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/10/kids_gaming.jpg

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Toni TheisenACTFL TOY 2009

NationalLanguageTeacher@actfl.org

theisent@gmail.com http://

tonitheisen.wikispaces.comLoveland High SchoolLoveland, CO 80538