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Teaching. for the 21 st Century. TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CHILDREN. There is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century communities and workplaces. TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CHILDREN.

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  1. Teaching for the 21st Century

  2. TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CHILDREN • There is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century communities and workplaces.

  3. TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CHILDREN Every child in America needs 21st century knowledge and skills to succeed as effective citizens, workers and leaders in the 21st century.

  4. TWENTY FIRST CENTURY CHILDREN • Our students will have to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.

  5. To successfully face rigorous higher education coursework, career challenges and a globally competitive workforce, U.S. schools must align classroom environments with real world environments by infusing 21st century skills.

  6. Let’s Watch • Digital Students @ Analog Schools

  7. What is 21st Century Education? • It is an emphasis on the Core Subjects. • The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, identifies the core subjects as English, reading or language arts; mathematics; science; foreign languages; civics; government; economics; arts; history; and geography.

  8. It is also • 21st Century Content. • Several significant, emerging content areas are critical to success in communities and workplaces. These content areas typically are not emphasized in schools today: • Global awareness • Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy • Civic literacy • Health and wellness awareness

  9. Learning and Thinking Skills • As much as students need to learn academic content, they also need to know how to keep learning — and make effective and innovative use of what they know — throughout their lives. • LIFELONG LEARNERS • Excite them/develop their interests

  10. Learning and Thinking Skills are comprised of: • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills • Communication Skills • Creativity and Innovation Skills • Collaboration Skills • Information and Media Literacy Skills • Contextual Learning Skills These skills can be implemented through regular coursework that focuses on your content area

  11. ICT Literacy • Information and communications technology (ICT) literacy is the ability to use technology to develop 21st century content knowledge and skills, in support of 21st century teaching and learning

  12. Life Skills • Good teachers have always incorporated life skills into their pedagogy. The challenge today is to incorporate these essential skills into schools deliberately, strategically and broadly

  13. . Life skills include: • Leadership • Ethics • Accountability • Adaptability • Personal Productivity • Personal Responsibility • People Skills • Self Direction • Social Responsibility

  14. 21st Century Assessments • Authentic 21st century assessments are the essential foundation of a 21st century education.

  15. 21st Century Assessments • Assessments must measure all five results that matter • core subjects • 21st century content • learning skills • ICT literacy • and life skills. It IS possible to create content that covers all of these components

  16. What does that mean? • It means if you are still teaching the same way you taught 20 even 10 years ago . . . then you have some catching up to do.

  17. Move on Up the Bloom’s

  18. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Are you lecturing about nouns or facilitating learning with verbs?

  19. Schools Have Changed

  20. Students Have Changed • Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age.

  21. They are what we call Digital Natives • They speak the language of technology fluently and easily • Most of us are Digital Immigrants • We can adapt and learn, but may never be able to act or be as fluent as the natives

  22. Students Have Changed Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.

  23. Students Have Changed as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors. (That’s us!)

  24. from the U.S. Dept. of Education Report Technology has transformed the way we communicate. Our children are growing up in a very different world from the one their parents experienced For example: • More than half of young adults in the United States send or receive text messages daily. • Three out of four teens between the ages of 15 and 17 own cell phones. • And almost eight out of 10 teens say they’ve helped an adult do something online that the adult could not do him- or herself. Harnessing Innovation to Support Student Success: Using Technology to Personalize Education, Washington, D.C., 2008

  25. from the U.S. Dept. of Education Report • Harnessing the power of innovation for the good of our schools is not just a novel enterprise. The nation’s health and prosperity depend on it. By leveraging technology, schools can customize instruction and ensure that children who need extra help get it. Harnessing Innovation to Support Student Success: Using Technology to Personalize Education, Washington, D.C., 2008

  26. Does this sound familiar? • My students just don’t _____ like they used to. • I can’t get them to ____ or to ____. • They have no appreciation for _____ or _____. (Fill in the blanks; there are a wide variety of choices.)

  27. So what should happen? • Should the Digital Native students learn the old ways, or should their Digital Immigrant educators learn the new? • Or should it be a compromise of both? Is it easier for us to move forward or for them to move backward?

  28. Let’s Harness the Power of Technology!! • Our world is about harnessing the power of technology to make our lives easier • We can do the same with education . . . . We SHOULD do the same with education

  29. We are teaching an Industrial curriculum in a digital age on an Agricultural calendar. A Vision of K-12 Students Today

  30. Some ideas • If a teacher today is not technologically literate - and is unwilling to make the effort to learn more - it's equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who didn't know how to read and write. -Carl Fisch

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