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In our schools we must…

With all of the high-tech gadgetry cascading into our lives, you might have thought this book would be bout teaching students how to use technology. In my view, the use of technology in the classroom is not the critical issue facing us in education in the 21st century.

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In our schools we must…

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  1. With all of the high-tech gadgetry cascading into our lives, you might have thought this book would be bout teaching students how to use technology. In my view, the use of technology in the classroom is not the critical issue facing us in education in the 21st century. The issue of foremost importance is to develop thinking skills in our students so that they will be able to utilize the power of technological tools to solve problems and to do useful work. People who possess technology skills but lack independent problem solving skills are useless until someone tells them what to do. The use of technology needs to be taught along with the higher-level thinking skills required to solve problems. People with these independent problem solving skills plus technology proficiency will have great power and will be effective, productive participants in families, communities, and businesses...what students need first and foremost are effective thinking skills. Teaching for Tomorrow pg. 84

  2. Ted McCain Problems first, teaching second Resist the temptation to tell Progressively withdraw from helping students Stop teaching decontextualized content In our schools we must… Stop giving students the final product of our thinking Reevaluate evaluation

  3. So What Could a 21st Century ClassroomLook Like?

  4. UDL Paradigm Shift:How UDL changes the way we think about students and education Old Assumptions New Assumptions Students who learn differently fall along a continuum of learner differences. Students who learn differently constitute a separate category. Instructional adjustments need to be made for at risk students. Instructional adjustments need to be made for all learners. Learning materials are varied, digital. Learning is centered on a single text book. The solution is within the learning environment. A flexible learning environment adapts to the needs of all students. The problem is with the student – remediate, remediate, remediate… 11 Center for Applied Special Technologies, CAST www.cast.org

  5. Exponential Change

  6. Quantum cryptography Mechatronics (smart controlled actuators). Grid computing Nanoimprinting Lithography Nuclear Pharmaceuticals Jobs/Careers* Our Students Will Have Injectable Tissue Engineer Designer optics Agriceuticals and Biopharmaceuticals Software assurance Glyconics Molecular imaging

  7. Critical and creative thinking Cooperative Learning and Perseverance Digital literacy/information literacy Problem solving Skills for the 21st Century Decision making Inquiry (think like a scientist)- enlightened skepticism

  8. A Vision of K-12 Students Today

  9. ..\21st century learners 2008 versions and materials\TeacherTube _ A Vision of K_12 Students Today.wmv

  10. Where to from here? • “So if we know all of this why aren’t we changing?” • What do you see in classrooms today that gives you hope? • What questions do you have and who will answer them?

  11. Sid Shugarman sid.shugarman@epsb.ca 780 4298220

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