21 st Century Learning Skills

1. 21st Century Learning Skills Preparing Our Students for the Future

2. Presenter Information Grace Strahan gstrahan@syndcs.com You can also find this presentation on the following wiki: http://century21learning.wikispaces.com/

3. Albert Einstein said… “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

4. What are 21st Century Learning Skills? Partnership for 21st Century Learning Skills

5. Support Systems • Learning Environments • Professional Development • Curriculum and Instruction • Standards and Assessment

6. Student Outcomes • Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes • Life and Career Skills • Learning and Innovation Skills • Information, Media and Technology Skills

7. Where do we start? • 21st Century Classrooms • Changing Instruction • Accountability • Career Opportunities • You fill in the blanks… Think about what you already know… Share with a neighbor!

8. John Dewey said… If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.

9. 21st Century Learning Environment • Teaching and learning • Professional learning communities • Enables students • Equitable access to technology • Group, Team and Individual Learning

10. Who are you? • Are you the ‘sage on the stage’? • Or, are you the ‘guide on the side’?

11. Collaboration is key! • Participate in peer coaching study teams to support what you are doing in the classroom. • Gain ideas and insight from teachers at your school. • Participate in or establish your own blog. • Wikis • Access

12. Learning Communities • Groups • Pairs • Individual • Face to face • Virtual Classrooms Today Classrooms Long Ago

13. 21st Century Classrooms

14. Think about yourself as a learner! • How do you learn best? • What kind of learning environment facilitates learning? • How do learning styles play into this role?

15. Designate Space to Encourage Learning Quiet… NOISEY!!!

16. Real World Application

17. 21st Century Professional Development • Emphasizes new ways to teaching and learning • Evaluates what is important now and what we can change, replace or de-emphasize • Helps teachers to identify students learning styles, strengths and weaknesses • Supports diverse student needs along with differentiated teaching and learning • Supports continuous evaluation and assessment through new teaching methodologies • Encourages collaboration and sharing using both face-to-face and virtual environments

18. How have classrooms changed? • Teacher-led, lecture style discussions • Text books, worksheets • Students work individually, desks in rows • Teacher is the only expert • Only the teacher sees the student work • Instruction provided on one level • Little student participation • Student centered, collaborative learning • Engaging, real-world content and technology resources • Students collaborate, desks arranged in groups • Student work is published on a global scale • Student engagement is high • Instruction is differentiated based on student needs, learning styles, interests and assessments Traditional Classroom Practices Innovative 21st Century Classroom Practices

19. Cycle of Professional Development

20. Ways to remain current in the 21st Century… • Participate in a teaching blog or other online learning community for teachers • Collaborate with teachers at your own school site for departmental planning • E-mail • Subscribe to online news sources • Create your own learning community • Podcasts • Conferences

21. 21st Century Curriculum and Instruction • Enables innovative learning methods • Inquiry and problem based learning • Higher order thinking skills • Encourages the integration of community resources beyond the school walls

22. How do we learn best?

23. By changing the way we teach, students can… • Read – by exploring individually • Be stimulated by audio visual/multimedia presentation formats • Demonstrate knowledge through project based learning • Discuss with their peers through collaborative groups • Practice through applications that include real world simulations • Teach others through heterogeneously mixed groups

24. 21st Century Standards • Content knowledge and expertise • Builds understanding across and amount core curriculum subjects • Emphasize deep understanding • Engages students with real world data, tools, and experts they will encounter • Prepares students for college, career paths and life • Multiple measures of mastery

25. Have you ever asked this question? Why do I need to know this???

26. 21st Century Standards Impact

27. Microsoft Education has lesson plans that link core curriculum skills and subject areas to productivity applications. http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.mspx

28. 21st Century Assessment • Balances standardized assessment with other formative and summative assessments • Requires a balance of technology enhanced assessments for formative and summative measures • Student portfolios

29. The key is balance!

30. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes • English, Math, Science, Social Studies/History • World Languages • Arts • Global Awareness • Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy • Health literacy • Environmental literacy

31. World Languages • Our world is more global and diverse. • Understanding others is the key to working and living in a global society.

32. Global Awareness • Understand and address global issues • Learning from and working within diverse groups • Mutual respect

33. Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy • Knowing how to make appropriate personal economic choices • Understanding the role of the economy in society • Enhancing workplace productivity • Career options

34. Civic Literacy • Participating in civic life • How to stay informed • Exercising rights and obligations • Implications of civic decisions

35. Health Literacy • Obtaining, understanding and interpreting basic health information • Preventative physical and mental health measures • Establishing and monitoring health goals • Understanding public health and safety issues

36. Environmental Literacy • Understand our environment and the circumstances and conditions affecting it • Society’s impact on the natural world • Take individual and collective action

37. Read All About It! • Bring newspapers into your classroom. • Both US and Global • Current events • Curriculum integration • Ties curriculum skills to career paths • Encourages students to inquire and seek information!

39. Learning and Innovation Skills • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication and Collaboration

40. Sir Ken Robinson is a leader in creativity, innovation and human resources. http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/

41. Information, Media, and Technology Skills • Information literacy • Media literacy • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology ) Literacy

42. Life and Career Skills • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and accountability • Leadership and responsibility

43. The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

44. Thank you!!! Grace Strahan Synergetics DCS, inc. gstrahan@syndcs.com http://century21learning.wikispaces.com/