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A presentation for the Waltham School District Leadership team on using emerging Web tools to teach 21st century skills
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Using Emerging Web Tools to Teach 21st Century Skills
Justin Reich and Tom DaccordEdTechTeacher.org
Agenda• A review of 21st Century Skills• Technology and 21st C Skills
– Visions of 21st C instruction with technology
SPLIT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
• Where’s Waltham?• The First Step is Getting Connected:
Personal Learning Networks
Goals• Share visions of how Web 2.0 learning
environments can be used to nurture 21st century skills
• Reflect on Waltham’s strengths, opportunities and capacities in using technology to teach 21st century skills
• Begin to develop pieces of a Personal Learning Network
Economy-Wide Measures of Routine and Non-Economy-Wide Measures of Routine and Non-Routine Task Input: 1969-1998 (1969=0)Routine Task Input: 1969-1998 (1969=0)
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1969 1980 1990 1998
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Complex Communication
Expert Thinking
Routine Manual
Routine Cognitive
Levy &Murnane: 21st C. Skills• Expert Thinking and Complex Communication
• Skills where humans have a comparative advantage over computers in a labor market
• [[What they are not: skills invented in the 21st century]]
• Levy F. and Murnane R., The New Division of Labor, Princeton UP
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Justin’s 21st Century Skills
USING WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO TEACH 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
Words, Wikis, Westwood• How does the use of wikis change poetry
instruction in Westwood?
• What’s the same? What’s different?
• Why was this the most emailed article on Boston.com for 2 days?
Words, Wikis, Westwood• Reactions?• Discussion
– Include more voices
• Students writing– Motivating to write
more… more willing to share online
• Who is critiquing• Collects peer review
in one place
• Affordances?
• - Fun• Audience- • Quick feedback- or
delayed
“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.”
-Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media
Studies Program at MIT
Social & Connected
-relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
-strong support & informal mentorship in creating and sharing one’s creations
-believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection
participatory culture
The Great Debate of 2008
Student News Action Network
Calculus Manual
Great Debate of 2008http://greatdebate2008.wikispaces.com/
Student News Action Networkhttp://www.studentnewsaction.net/
AP Calculus Manualhttp://apcalc2008.pbworks.com/
Math Mov!eshttp://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01801/
George Washingtonhttp://21stcenturytoolsncss.wikispaces.com/examples
A Day in the Life of a Hobohttp://edtechteacher.org/hobopodcast.html
Who am I?http://voicethread.com/library/35/
Exemplary Classroom Web 2.0 Projects
• http://parkerwiki0910.pbworks.com/
• http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/
• Vicki Davis Video: http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-teachers-vicki-davis
Web 2.0 in Administration
• Bering Strait School District : http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Main_Page
Waltham Wikis
• http://burns3.wikispaces.com/Group+3
• https://entreproject.wikispaces.com/Collings%2C+L.
Questions and Reactions to Technology and 21st C Skills
Where’s Waltham?What strengths can you build on in developing 21st
century skills? What roles can technology play?
• Classroom Instruction
• Homework
• Assessments
• Teacher/Department/Coach Collaboration
• Administrative Collaboration
The first step is getting connected:Personal Learning Networks
Personal Learning Networks
1. Organize Media Intake
2. Construct supportive community of learners
3. Prepare for ongoing professional development and learning
Are you connected?
http://pwoessner.com/2008/12/15/21st-century-literacy-network-literacy/
Organizing On-Going Learning
• Someone who has kindly explained how to do all of these things
• Ning– Classroom 2.0– ncssnetwork.ning.com – http://elementarytechteachers.ning.com/
• Blogs– David Warlick -dana boyd– Will Richardson - Kathy Schrock
• Twitter– Paul Bogush - Vicki Davis– Dennis Richards
• Social Bookmarking
NCSS Community Network
Organizing Media Intake: Browsers and RSSInternet Explorer Challenge
• Go to Waltham School District. Find the calendar
• Click on RSS Feed• Click Subscribe to This Feed
– Choose “Feeds” or “Add to Favorite Bar”
• Find and subscribe to a feed on another site
Firefox Challenge• Go to Waltham School
District. Find the calendar• Click on RSS Feed• Click Subscribe Now
– Choose “Toolbar” or “Menu” or create a folder
• Find and subscribe to another feed
Guidelines for Personal Learning Networks
• Devote a designated period of time to them
• Listen first, respond second, ask third, declare fourth
• Remember that building community takes time
• Make meaningful links
More Strategies for Getting Involved
• Teaching Global History with Technology at Harvard University
• EdTechTeacher Summer Workshops
It’s not about us
• The teacher is terrible at the skill but helps the student succeed marvelously
Develop Fundamental Skills in New Ways
Rehearse for 21st Century Situations/
Environments
Improve Student Engagement
Hypothesized Benefits to teaching with Web 2.0
Enable Rich CollaborationEnable Rich
Collaboration
Motivate StudentsMotivate Students
Improve Writing
Skills
Improve Writing
Skills
Engage in New Civic Dialogue
Train for Web 2.0
Applications in Business
Engage in New Global
Dialogue
Learn New
Media Literacies
Learn New
Media Literacies
Practice Deeper and
Richer Discussion
Practice Deeper and
Richer Discussion
Train for Writing
under Real World
Conditions
Develop Fundamental Skills in New Ways
Rehearse for 21st Century Situations/
Environments
Include More Students
Include More Students
Improve Student Engagement
Hypothesized Benefits to Teaching with Web 2.0
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Challenges and Opportunities in moving towards a 21st Century
Learning Environment“Classrooms are rarely changed in substantial ways by educational policies.”
- John Diamond, sociologist of education, Harvard University School of Education
content influences
influences on pedagogy
PD implications
sustained & intensive
job-embedded
collective participation
active learning
PD “best practices”