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Presentation by Barry Richard Barber at the 2012 Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement: Engaging North Carolina in Transforming 21st Century Teaching and Learning.
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The 4C’s of 21st Century Learning
in Asheboro
City Schools
Barry Richard BarberTechnology Facilitator
Asheboro City Schools
Introduction
Asheboro City Schools
Asheboro City Schools
• five-star Early Childhood Development Center
• five elementary schools• two middle schools•one high school•4,500 students
Asheboro City Schools
Dr. Diane Frost Superintendent of Asheboro City Schools
2012 A. Craig Phillips North Carolina Superintendent of the Year
Asheboro City Schools
• IMPACT grant•1:1 laptop program
• Arizona• Illinois• Iowa• Kansas• Louisiana• Maine• Massachusetts• Nevada • New Jersey • North Carolina• Ohio• South Dakota• West Virginia• Wisconsin
Current State Partners:
Partnership 21 State Leaders
“I'm calling on our nation's governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.”
- President Barack ObamaMarch 10, 2009, addressing the
U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
National Priority
Controversy?
Disclaimer
What are 21st Century skills?
Turn and Talk
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and innovation• Collaboration• Communication
Critical Thinking
Math StationsStudents Take Responsibility
for Their Group’s Learning
Connected &Integrated Math
Critical Thinking
Sources of Texts of Increasing Complexity
BritannicaWorld NewspapersGrolier OnlineInfoTracLands & PeoplesCumbrePopular ScienceeBooksMagazines
Critical Thinking
“I’m Eating Healthy”Student Created Video2011 PBS Innovator
Award Winner
Scratch from MITComputer Programming
for Beginners
Creativity and Innovation
Science Students Write and Perform Their Song about
the Skeletal System
Students Portray Colonists on the Eve of
the American Revolution
Creativity and Innovation
Reports Using Glogster and
Screencast-o-matic
Creativity and Innovation
Student Created Go Animate! Explaining
Math Concepts
Student Recording Her Own
“Fireside Chat”
Creativity and Innovation
Art Students Research Artists of
the Harlem Renaissance
Creativity and Innovation
Comic Strip Science Concepts
Fakebookfrom classtools.net
Creativity and Innovation
Sidewalk Math Sidewalk math
Creativity and Innovation
Christopher ColumbusBlabberize
Animal Farm Book TrailerWith PhotoStory 3
Collaboration
Google AppsDocuments
PresentationsWebsites
SpreadsheetsDrawings
FormsMail
Collaboration
Google Maps:Collaborative Cartography
Collaboration
Math Partners Reading Partners
Communication
Very Estuary! Presentation with Prezi
Communication
Four Corners,Fishbowl Discussions,Philosophical Chairs
Biographies:Research Paper
& Oral Presentations
Communication
Students Communicate with Peers in other Schools
and Other Countries
education.skype.com
Communication
Twitter for Professional
Networking
#edchat#engchat
#mathchat#scichat#sschat#stem
Twitter Inspired:25 Word Stories
#25wordstory
Twitter.com/skypeclassroom
Virtual Corkboard
Communication
Classroom managementSubmit assignmentsGrade level textsDiscussion forums3-2-1, etc. strategiesLinks to additional helpRead aloudsStudent communicate & collaborate after schoolHomework & QuizzesParent Involvement
•P21.org
•Implementation Guides
•Core Subject Maps
•MILE Guide
•Route 21
•21st Century Skills
•Video Resources (Video 21)
Resources you can use
North CarolinaState Board of Education Policy:
Future-Ready Studentsfor the 21st Centuryhttp://www.ncpublicschools.org/stateboard/about/goals
Future Ready Students
Barry Richard BarberTechnology Facilitator
Asheboro City Schools
Thank You
