21 st Century Skills for College

1. 21st Century Skills for College Andrea Peach, Ed. D. Associate Professor of Graduate Education Georgetown College

2. Agenda • Examine 21st Century Skills • What are technology-specific standards and skills needed for college? • How are these skills used in college courses? • How can your students get these skills prior to college and while they are in college?

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4. 21st Century Skills http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

5. Technology • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • Information Communications and Technology Literacy

6. Information Literacy • Access and Evaluate Information • Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources) • Evaluate information critically and competently • Use and Manage Information • Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand • Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources • Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information

7. How used in College • Access and Evaluate Information • Finding and using library and reliable internet-related resources for research and other class projects • Evaluating web-based resources to see if they are worthy and reliable • Use and Manage Information • Completing class and research projects efficiently and creatively • Keeping track of lots of information from lots of sources • Making sure you don’t plagiarize!

8. Improving IL Skills • Learn to use online databases available through the Commonwealth Virtual Library. • Searching skills – using boolean searching (and, or, not), and advanced searching options. Use the help features of the database! • Don’t rely on internet sites found through a search engine like Google for your primary sources of information. • Find a way of managing resources that works for you.

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10. Other tools for managing resources • Electronic databases may have ways of creating accounts so you can keep a copy of resources you find. • Copy the resource citation into a Word or Google Doc and keep the full-text version in a folder on your computer. • Use a reference manager like EndNote (http://http://www.endnote.com/) or Zotero(http://www.zotero.org/) • The important thing is to come up with a method early and stick with it!

11. Media Literacy • Analyze Media • Understand both how and why media messages are constructed, and for what purposes • Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values and points of view are included or excluded, and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors • Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of media • Create Media Products • Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics and conventions • Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments

12. How used in College • Analyze Media • Class discussions & presentations • Class assignments and research projects • Discussions with professors and peers • Create Media Products • Create presentations using PowerPoint or Google Presentation • Create videos and digital stories using Movie Maker or iMovie • Creating media for fine arts courses and personal use • Making sure you are not plagiarizing media

13. Improving ML Skills • Talk with your kids about what they are watching on TV or interacting with on the Internet. • They should know how to use both the basic and advanced features of PowerPoint. • Creating presentations with consistent design and movement • Adding media to presentations • Adding custom animation and SmartArt • Saving presentations in proper formats • They should know how to create videos products using Movie Maker (Windows) or iMovie (Apple) and audio files using a program like Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) • They should know how to take and save digital images efficiently • Review Fair Use rules with your kids (http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=758&title=)

14. Information Communications and Technology Literacy • Apply Technology Effectively • Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information • Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS,  etc.), communication/networking tools and social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information to successfully function in a knowledge economy • Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies

15. How used in College • Apply Technology Effectively • It is simply not possible to do well in college without being able to use word processing, presentation software, spreadsheets, research databases, and internet search engines and online tools. • Web 2.0/Social Networking (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking) used for class assignments and social settings. • Online calendars (Google Calendar) and other time-management tools • Class management systems, like Blackboard and Moodle, are used by most colleges. Assignments will be posted and materials will be available. • Accessing and saving electronic resources for class work • Efficiently saving files on computers, backing up/restoring information • Keeping personal information safe • Using technology ethically and legally, including such things as downloading music/movies/games, etc.

16. Improving ICTL Skills • Use computers whenever possible to complete school assignments • Take computer courses in high school if possible • Start a blog or design a website using a WIKI or other website tool. • Discuss with your kids how to maintain personal information on social networking sites like Facebook. • Use the privacy features • Appropriate content • Guidelines for approving ‘friends’

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19. Contact me.. • Dr. Andrea PeachAssociate Professor of EducationGeorgetown College400 E. College StreetGeorgetown, KY 40324apeach0@georgetowncollege.edu • Website – http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/peach