Curriculum 2.0 - A 21st century literacy curriculum

Justin MedvedCAIS Best Practices ConferenceTechnology, Teaching and Learning SpecialistThe York School

“You have to admire schools’ ability to resist change.”

– Alan November

Collaborate

Communicate

Speak another language

Independently learn

Manage information

Creative

Global

Be safe

Critical thinker

What are the obstacles to a successful embeddedI.T. curriculum?

IT’s broke.

How/when do you learn to use technology?

How/when do our students learn to use technology?

When they need it.

Our students are Digital Natives.

- Mark Prensky

Our students are Digital Captives.- Jamie McKenzie

The great myth is that these “digital natives” know more about this new information environment than we do. But here’s the reality: they may be experts in entertaining themselves online, but they know almost nothing about educating themselves online.

Michael WeschProfessor of Digital EthnographyKansas State University

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Why shouldTechnologybe different?

IT shouldn’t be.

Good curriculardesign

Good curriculardesign

Worth being familiar with

Important to know and do

EnduringUnderstanding

From “Understanding by Design”, Wiggins and McTighe

What is a successful 21st Century Learner?

What is a successful 21st Century Learner?

What are the Essential Questions that a 21stCentury Learner needs to ask?

What are the Essential Questions

that a 21stCentury Learner needs to ask?

So where are the Technology skills?

“It is a real focus of this embedded curriculum, that the skills of using technology become the habits of students and teachers - that technology is called upon when needed the same way a dictionary or pencil has been in the past.”

This is not something that we teach in the 3rd grade, check it off, and go on. It’s not a skill. It’s habit. …and it needs to be a part of almost every conversation that we have in our classrooms.

-David Warlick “2 Cents Worth”

It needs to be the way schools do business.-Will Richardson, Learning 2.0 Conference, Shanghai

“It is our goal in developing an integrated curriculum to ensure that the way students learn with technologyagrees with the way they live with technology.”

Making it happen(aka “Don’t Skip the Conversations”)

Effective Learner

Effective Global Collaborator

Effective Communicator

The Essential Questions for a 21st Century Learner

How do I find and use information to construct meaning and solve problems?

How do I responsibly use information and communication to positively contribute to my world?

How do I effectively communicate?

21st Century Literacy Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings

Our vision of the 21st Century Learner

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