21st+Century+Skills






 * Critical thinking and problem solving
 * Creativity and innovation
 * Collaboration, teamwork, and leadership
 * Cross-cultural understanding
 * Communications, information, and media literacy
 * Computing and ICT (information and communications technology) literacy
 * Career and learning self-reliance

[|Back Channels] [|CNN Bill Gates "Learn to Write Code"]

Rubrics for 21st Century: []

Taxonomy Model Notes for September 19th: 21st Century Mini Lesson

[|Bloom's Apps]



Here are some concrete examples to get you thinking about a 21st Century lesson: [|Pearson 21st Century] Video 1 Notes: (Learning for life in our times) High Tech High: 3 axioms of public education:
 * separate students from each other based on their perceived academic ability
 * separate hands from minds
 * separate school from the world beyond

We need to integrate these.
 * Collaboration is key, deeper meaning as a subject as a whole
 * structure projects
 * clear cut expections for the best outcome
 * articulating observations and analysis
 * Create a toy project to donate to orphans in Mexico
 * Building something from nothing
 * How come this didn't work like I thought it would work?
 * Both have to do the project but they work with a partner.
 * It's about relationships.
 * It's time to put these together.

21st Century skills are employability skills It means to work in teams, ask good questions, consider multiple perspectives in the work they are doing, ask how things are connected, take big picture views prepares students for college and careers. [|Henrico] This is a school district that is very much trying to establish 21st Century Learning in their district. The technology director is a good resource for me.

Websites to find 21st Century Tools 21st Century Tools

Common Core Standards and 21st Century Skills

This is an article about rigor in the classroom-how to get it there and how to keep it there. [|Where's the Beef? Putting rigor in learning]

This is the Thinkfinity you know. It just happens to have some 21st Century help too. [|Thinkfinity and 21st Century Skills]

Khan Academy: [|Using Technology to Teach Math]

Learning Targets and Vocabulary

Denise's Notes on 21st Century Skills--don't miss these first three videos:
 * VIDEOS FOR THINKING **
 * Schools and Creativity TED Talk: [|Ken Robinson Schools and Creativity]
 * Changing How We Teach Math: [|Math Makeover][|Mr. Meyer Blog]
 * Changing Education Paradigms: [|Ken Robinson]
 * An Experiment on Experimental Learning: [|Sugata Mitra-Hole in the Wall]
 * Open Source Content: [|Richard Baraniuk] This is plenty dry but maybe the wave of the future?
 * [|Khan Acadamy] Hear the math lesson ahead of time.
 * [|Melinda Gates-Coke Management and Nonprofits] Can any of these ideas be applied to schools? Hmmm

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 * Links for Using **

Here is a sample technology Curriculum: [|k-5 Curriculum] This librarian has compiled some excellent resources for 21st Century Skills: [|Janet Benincosa] Just For Fun: [|A Quiz on Critical Thinking]

My 21st Century Contact School: [|Henrico County Public School District]

Technology Standards [|Common Core Standards]




 * Notes on the Subject from Chris Carollo:**

THOUGHT ABOUT A GOAL: "We are holding you and your students to higher standards than the state test." High test scores are only one target. We will see great when students want to be here, are engaged, and are using problem-solving/critical thinking skills.

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SHAKE IT UP!

[|Some doubters-What do you think?]

Bloom's Definitions **Understanding **: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining. **Applying **: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing. **Analyzing **: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing. **Evaluating **: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing. **Creating **: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing. (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001, pp. 67-68)
 * **Remembering **: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.

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