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21 st Century Learning Skills. Preparing Our Students for the Future. Presenter Information. Grace Strahan gstrahan@syndcs.com You can also find this presentation on the following wiki: http://century21learning.wikispaces.com/. Albert Einstein said….
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21st Century Learning Skills Preparing Our Students for the Future
Presenter Information Grace Strahan gstrahan@syndcs.com You can also find this presentation on the following wiki: http://century21learning.wikispaces.com/
Albert Einstein said… “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
What are 21st Century Learning Skills? Partnership for 21st Century Learning Skills
Support Systems • Learning Environments • Professional Development • Curriculum and Instruction • Standards and Assessment
Student Outcomes • Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes • Life and Career Skills • Learning and Innovation Skills • Information, Media and Technology Skills
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!
John Dewey said… If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.
21st Century Learning Environment • Teaching and learning • Professional learning communities • Enables students • Equitable access to technology • Group, Team and Individual Learning
Who are you? • Are you the ‘sage on the stage’? • Or, are you the ‘guide on the side’?
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
Learning Communities • Groups • Pairs • Individual • Face to face • Virtual Classrooms Today Classrooms Long Ago
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?
Designate Space to Encourage Learning Quiet… NOISEY!!!
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
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
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
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
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
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
Have you ever asked this question? Why do I need to know this???
Microsoft Education has lesson plans that link core curriculum skills and subject areas to productivity applications. http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.mspx
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
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
World Languages • Our world is more global and diverse. • Understanding others is the key to working and living in a global society.
Global Awareness • Understand and address global issues • Learning from and working within diverse groups • Mutual respect
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
Civic Literacy • Participating in civic life • How to stay informed • Exercising rights and obligations • Implications of civic decisions
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
Environmental Literacy • Understand our environment and the circumstances and conditions affecting it • Society’s impact on the natural world • Take individual and collective action
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!
Learning and Innovation Skills • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication and Collaboration
Sir Ken Robinson is a leader in creativity, innovation and human resources. http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/
Information, Media, and Technology Skills • Information literacy • Media literacy • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology ) Literacy
Life and Career Skills • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and accountability • Leadership and responsibility
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
Thank you!!! Grace Strahan Synergetics DCS, inc. gstrahan@syndcs.com http://century21learning.wikispaces.com/