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http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=35c62bc32c4fe2f0fa200efa79f92458&mId=505823http://www.voki.com/php/viewmessage/?chsm=35c62bc32c4fe2f0fa200efa79f92458&mId=505823 21st Century SkillsMaster Teacher Academy Lynette Heitz and Beckie Mower
Why 21st Century Skills? Shake It Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LHZPTKUHk&NR=1 Learning to Change/Changing to Learnhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk
Core Subjects/21st Century Themes Mastery of core subjects and 21st century themes is essential to student success. Core subjects include English, reading or language arts, world languages, arts, mathematics, economics, science, geography, history, government and civics.
21st Century Themes Schools must promote an understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into core subjects: • Global Awareness • Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Civic Literacy • Health Literacy • Environmental Literacy
Learning & Innovation Skills Learning and innovation skills are what separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in today’s world and those who are not. They include: • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication and Collaboration
Technological Journey A look at a technological journey: Smith Corona Manual Typewriter KeyPunchMachine IBM Selectric Typewriter Dell PC Compaq Laptop Smith Corona Elec. Coronamatic Typewriter Blackberry
Information, Media and Technology Skills We live in a technology and media-driven environment, with access to an abundance of information, rapid changes in technology tools, and the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions. Functional and critical thinking skills, such as: • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy A Vision of Students Todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
Life and Career Skills Today’s life and work environments require far more than thinking skills and content knowledge. Because of the complex life and work environments in the globally competitive information age, students needto pay rigorousattention to developing adequate life and career skills, such as: • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self-Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and Accountability • Leadership and Responsibility**21st Century Education in New Brunswick, Canadahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJg9NfTXos
Web Sites of Interest Online communities: peer to peer professional development. They show how teachers are active learners and do not wait for professional development to come to them: instead, teachers create their own opportunities for shared learning. • http://classroom20.ning.com classroom • http://globaleducation.ning.com Global Eduation Collaborative • http://coe.kks.edu/pbl importance of getting away from traditional thinking.
Web Sites (Con’t.) • Project Based Learning PBL: creativity, information fluency, critical thinking, and digital citizenship. Before a teacher introduces a new project to her students, she can ask her peers. “O.K. here’s my plan. Now, where are the holes?” • http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com • http://edutopia.org • http://pbl-online.org/what_teachers_say/what_teachers_say.htm • http://googlelittrips.com • http://wise.berkeley.edu/welcome.php
Web Sites (Con’t.) Wiki, blog, twitter, tweet, and Prezi = are they better than SEE JANE RUN? • http://prezi.com/learn/ tab-Explore, click on-Mixing Mind and Metaphor • Beckie Mower’s prezi example on Three Bears • http://itc.blogs.com/wrinkles/ author, share news, milestones, resources. • http://delicious.com/LynSHeitz social bookmarking site. • http://voki.com
What Is Our Next Step? Techie Thursday3:30 pm – 4:30 pm everyThursday (come when you can)Explore web sites, work on your school web siteConnect with other teachers on technology topics ****Three Bears Prezi presentation Pay Attention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw Contact information: Lynette Heitz Beckie Mower Lynette.Heitz@k12.sd.usBeckie.Mower@k12.sd.us http://lheitzplace.wikispaces.com http://delicious.com/LynSHeitz