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21 st Century Skills in Today’s Classroom

21 st Century Skills in Today’s Classroom. By: Ashley Darr. Solution Fluency. Use creativity to problem solve The 4Ds: Define the problem: ask probing questions Design a solution: after asking the questions, strategize how they can be answered (plan)

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21 st Century Skills in Today’s Classroom

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  1. 21st Century Skills in Today’s Classroom By: Ashley Darr

  2. Solution Fluency • Use creativity to problem solve • The 4Ds: • Define the problem: ask probing questions • Design a solution: after asking the questions, strategize how they can be answered (plan) • Develop: carry out the work of the plan • Debrief: determine the effectiveness of the work done; were the questions answered?

  3. Solution Fluency: Lemonade Stand • With a partner, students will complete a simulation, trying to earn the highest profit • Students decide: • How much product to buy • How to prepare the lemonade • How much to sell the lemonade for and more • Students determine their success and explain

  4. Information Fluency • Effectively find digital resources pertaining to a desired topic • Use search skills and terms efficiently • Have knowledge of a variety of tools to access information • Assess reliability and usefulness of information found • Determine what information is relevant • Detect possible bias or inaccuracy

  5. Information Fluency: Technology of the Past, Today, and Tomorrow • Students will choose a form of technology and research it. They will determine: • What the object was like in the past • What the object is like now and how it has changed • Based on the evolution of the object, what will it be like in the future

  6. CollaborationFluency • Working together skillfully and cooperatively, as a team • Working with various partners; both in face-to-face and online environments

  7. Collaboration Fluency: Character Life Box • During the Holocaust unit and after reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “All But My Life,” students will work in groups to: • Research a person from either story to gain more information • Create a Character Box of clues and props pertaining to the person researched • Present their Character Box

  8. Creativity Fluency • Adding meaning by incorporating design, art, and storytelling techniques. • Using the imagination to create • Artistic creation • More than just functionality “Logic will get you from A to B Imagination will take you everywhere” ~Albert Einstein

  9. Creative Fluency: Digital Story Books • Students will work collaboratively to create digital story books for the 4K class. Students will: • Write a story • Edit or create pictures • Edit or create audio • Use animations to enhance story

  10. Media Fluency • Critically look at media and… • Interpret message • Ascertain how it shapes thinking • Assess effectiveness of message • Create and publish unique digital products • Determine message and choose most applicable media or presentation tool to

  11. Media Fluency: The Giver and reading blogs • While reading The Giver,as a class, students will keep their own blogs, posting their thoughts about the story and its issues and answering reflective journal questions. • Students will also browse various media websites to keep up with current events or research to learn about other societies, making connections with their reading

  12. Digital Citizenship • Leadership, ethics, accountability, fiscal responsibility, environmental awareness, global citizenship, and personal responsibility. • Consistency in personality • Be the same person online as you are in a face-to-face situation • Understand that people online may not really be who they say they are (Meinhardt, 2010)

  13. Digital Citizenship: Internet Safety Web Sites • Students will create websites and a presentation (video or poster) while studying the various aspects of Internet Safety. The unit will include: • Keeping personal information private • How to be smart online…talking to people you know, not friending unknown people • Cyber bullying…how to follow rules of netiquette ("Internet safety," 2012)

  14. What does this all mean? (Kraft, 2010)

  15. Sources Jukes, I., McCain, T., & Crockett, L. (2010). Understanding the digital generation: Teaching and learning in the new digital landscape. Vancouver: 21st Century Fluency Project, Inc Kraft, M. (2010). How will you teach me in the 21st century? [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvyP-cwpHN8 Meinhardt, K. (Producer). (2010). 242068_s digital handshake. [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://edsome.com/2010/05/digital-citizenship/ (2012). Internet safety. (2012). [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://montrosesd.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=225724&sessionid=256f93c7d9d36b372681ae47724b98a8

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