Technology: Gifted Students and 21 st Century Learning

1. Technology: Gifted Students and 21st Century Learning Cindy Sheetscindysheets@smsd.org Ginger Lewmangingertplc@gmail.com

3. What brought you here today? • What are you hoping to take away from this workshop? • How many attended one of our sessions yesterday? • Plan to set some goals for yourself – what will you do when you return to work?

4. Purpose • Provide you with words, phrases, and resources that you need in order to advocate

5. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy

6. Kids are Different

7. Brain Research

8. Connectivity

9. Rip Van Winkle

10. What does this mean for you and your learning community?

11. No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/02/16/happy-birthday-jude/

12. Knocking Down the 4 Walls

13. Shift Happens

14. Did You Know? 4.0

15. Shelfari • http://www.shelfari.com/groups/38463/about

16. BGBefore Google

17. Social Media Count http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

18. OLPC One laptop per child

19. TED Talks Technology, Entertainment, Design Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers - - - - for free

20. Berkeley, MIT, Stanford Learning no longer bell-bound

21. Pause & Ponder

22. Take a Break

23. 21st Century Skills

24. Process not Product “We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider matters as an historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process, not a product.” (Bruner, 1966, p. 72)

25. Core Subjects Mastery of core subjects and 21st century themes is essential for students in the 21st century.

26. Moving Beyond the Basics beyond a focus on basic competency in core subjects to promoting understanding at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into core subjects: • Global Awareness • Financial, Economic, Business • and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Health Literacy • Civics Literacy

27. Global, Economic . . . WASHINGTON, D.C.– Sept. 10, 2008 –Creating a 21st century education system that prepares students, workers and citizens to triumph in the global skills race is the central economic competitiveness issue currently facing the United States, according to a new report released by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills

28. Learning & Innovation This will separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not - - A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.

29. Collaboration – Cooperation

31. 3 Steps

32. Sir Ken Robinson - Creativity

33. Information, Media & Technology • In our world . . . • technology and media-suffused environment • access to an abundance of information • rapid changes in technology tools • ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented scale. • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • Information, • Communication & • Technology Literacy

34. Information Literacy When they know how to access data, they are better able navigate the vast data ocean that surrounds our world. evaluatethat data, to make sense of it, thus turning it into information. effectively use information, in order to convert it into useful knowledge.

35. Information literacy has a truly transformative effect, one that makes possible the acquisition of other skills necessary for 21st century life. Partnership for 21st Century Skills White Paper

36. Life and Career Skills “What we resolve to do in school only makes sense when considered in the broader context of what the society intends to accomplish through its educational investment in the young.” Jerome S. Bruner, The Culture of Education

37. 21stCentury Teachers Who’s the expert?

38. “We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar – that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire – can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.” Nathan M. Pusey, The Age of the Scholar

39. The lines are beginning to blur between teacher and student

40. Student – Learner - Teacher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2Iv5D10Bs

41. Students may speak “technology” with greater fluency than their digital immigrant parents, but they do not always do so with . . . as much sophistication as they imagine, . as much wisdom as their parents would wish, or as much competence as their teachers would like Partnership for 21st Century Skills White Paper

42. Web 2.0 The Internet is not JUST a Library

43. New technologies provide access to a vast array of information, including digital libraries, real-world data for analysis, and connections to other people who provide information, feedback, and inspiration, all of which can enhance the learning of teachers and administrators as well as students.(p.xix) How People Learn by Bransford, Brown and Cocking (1999)

44. Here Comes Everybody By Clay Shirky

45. Instutitions vs. Collaboration

46. Podcasting Our City Audacity

47. Tools • Skype http://www.skype.com • Wikis http://www.wikispaces.com/ http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki • Blogs http://www.classblogmeister.com/ • Social Networks Nings http://giftededucation.ning.com/ http://www.classroom20.com/ • Social Bookmarking http://delicious.com/ • http://www.diigo.com/ • Podcasting • Moodle http://moodle.com • Flickr http://www.flickr.com/

48. Google Tools • Google Docs http://docs.google.com • Wonder Wheel • Google Squared http://www.google.com/squared • Other Google options http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

49. Take a break

50. What would you like to ask students who are working and living in a technology rich environment?