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The Importance of "21st Century Skills"

The Importance of "21st Century Skills" | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Lately there has been a fair amount of pressure on educators to cultivate “21st century skills” in their students. But what exactly does this mean?

 

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Digital Differentiation ~ Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners

Digital Differentiation ~ Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Susan Daniels's curator insight, May 15, 8:22 AM

"Stategy-Tactics" with the use of "Tools".  This graphic shows the overlapping nature of information tools available online.

 

1. Multi-Media Learning Platform

2. Digital Tools for Finding Information

3. Digital Tools for Understanding Information

4. Digital Tools for Using Information

5. Digital Tools to Support Writing

 

Assignment: What specific tools do you use for each of these Tactics?

 

What can we add to these circles? Add your answers to the comment section.

 

I visited this blog to dig a little deeper and find that they have updated their model with pop-up explanations of how teachers of the 21st Century may apply this to their students either in a classroom setting or virtually across the world.

 

http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/digital-differentiation-get-wired.html

 

It's well worth the visit, my friends, to see the miracle of the internet and it's effect on the modern "classroom."

 

Warmly,

Susan Daniels

 

http://crazydreamersdo.com

 

 

 

 

 

Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight, May 15, 9:26 AM

In the wrong hands, this is just layering over what already is not working. We need something different, full of risk, and creative.

Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight, May 16, 9:00 PM

Looks useful and can be integrated into more traditional learning.

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How To: Use Wikipedia in the Classroom Responsibly

How To: Use Wikipedia in the Classroom Responsibly | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Too many teachers are still afraid to use Wikipedia in the Classroom. I'm here to right that wrong and show educators how they can use it responsibly.

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Helen Teague's curator insight, May 18, 9:34 AM

Thank you for posting this---students' Wikipedia use is second-nature to them and it is positive that they are researching and wise for educators to guide them toward scholarly citation!

John Purificati's comment, May 18, 11:48 AM
I agree, students think Wikipedia is like our Encyclopedia Britannica's once were.
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We Are Social - Future Factors 2013

This deck sets out We Are Social's provocations for the future - the things that we believe will drive and shape our social and digital future over the months t

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13 Digital Citizenship Terms Teachers Need to Know ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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CITE Journal - Language Arts Pedagogy Framework a Critical Approach

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World education rankings: which country does best at reading, maths and science?

World education rankings: which country does best at reading, maths and science? | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
The OECD's comprehensive world education ranking report, PISA, is out. Find out how each country compares

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Gust MEES's curator insight, May 16, 12:53 PM

 

A MUST read!!!

 

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A MUST read!!!

 

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Creating Environments for Learning: Essential Readings

Creating Environments for Learning:  Essential Readings | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
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Mary Perfitt-Nelson's curator insight, May 16, 4:32 PM

Seven essential articles to get you thinking about the Cultural Force:  Environment.  The environment can be improved, inexpensively, to create more opportunities for thinking and learning.  

 

This packet was given to participants at the Culture of Thinking (Cohort 2) learning event by Ron Richhart on May 18, 2013 (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan).  For more information:  http://blog.oakland.k12.mi.us/cot/

 

 

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How Mind Maps Can Inspire Collaborative Learning - Edudemic

How Mind Maps Can Inspire Collaborative Learning - Edudemic | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Some of the most popular tools that are revolutionizing the educational field and not only are the so called “collaborative learning tools”.
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"Is your learning style efficient? Do you have any learning preferences which you left untapped? If you have already benefitted in your teaching and learning activity from using a collaborative learning tool could you share what made your experience successful?"



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Free Technology for Teachers: Video - How to Insert Images Into Google Forms

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Eide Neurolearning Blog: The Steps of Creativity - Early Crowd sourcing and Prototyping

Eide Neurolearning Blog: The Steps of Creativity - Early Crowd sourcing and Prototyping | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
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Quite fascinating with many implications for teaching and learning.

Paz Gonzalo's curator insight, May 15, 7:49 AM

El ejemplo ayuda a comprender el alcance de la tarea que se propone

Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight, May 15, 9:28 AM

The opening line about the research conclusions makes sense. We need examples of what we are looking to do when learning. We cannot just move ahead blindly.

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Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning

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The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the evolution from Education 1.0 to Educa...
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Very interesting article that challenges many of the current ways of teaching and learning.

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Curation, as a Pedagogical Tool To Embolden Critical Thinking in Education

Curation, as a Pedagogical Tool To Embolden Critical Thinking in Education | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education

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Benjamin Carmel's curator insight, May 6, 1:31 PM

Right, this is a topic I've been thinking and working with a lot lately. The authors discuss this as a tool for secondary school (mostly), but the principles apply equally to adult learners and collaboration, learning communities and communities of practice.

 

The reference list is also a valuable resource. More to add to my reading list...

PaolaRicaurte's curator insight, May 12, 8:49 AM

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Paul Mihailidis, has an interesting essay on "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital an Media Literacy Education" in which he offers "a prospective attempt to build curation into the media literacy conversation..." by analyzing the analyzing effective curation practices, and six highly relevant teaching points for using a news curation tool like Storify in the classroom.

 

His essay "seeks to encourage instructors, particularly on secondary and tertiary education levels, to bridge the gap between informal learning outside of the classroom with formal learning to create a more dynamic place for students to advance critical inquiry, dialogue, and engagement through new forms of content creation, curation, and dissemination."

 

He writes: "Through student-driven, creation-driven, collective and integrated teaching approaches to curation, the framework aims to build towards savvy media consumption and production, critical evaluation and analysis, and participation in local, national and global dialog.

 

The framework also addresses the ability to see diversity and civic voice as core competencies in the curation process.

 

As students learn to build cohesive stories and ideas from a wide variety of sources, they can learn about the diverse types of content that inform a story, and the avenues they have-through social media tools and platforms-to be part of the discussion."

 

Curation can be an extremely effective approach to develop critical thinking skills and practices, as it forces students to evaluate, vet, verify and decide what really matters.

 

"When students develop a credible list of professional and personal sources around an issue and/or event, they must acknowledge how much subjective weight they place on a tweet, a blog, or a Facebook post and in relative comparison to an advocacy group, cable television operation, or news service. Arguing for the credibility of a myriad of voices online forces students to build valuable justifications for what they choose to believe, and why."

 

 

Informative. Examples-rich. Educationally useful. 8/10

 

Full essay: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html

 

Nancy White's curator insight, May 13, 9:12 AM

I am very excited to find this work to share with my teachers. I continue to get pushback as I try to encourage them to allow time for students to curate.  The fact of the matter is that true curation takes time, but the skills gained by students cannot be ignored, and research and critical analysis are found throughout the Common Core Standards. Curation is also a pathway to personalized learning as students pursue their own areas of interest through the art of curation.

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27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does

27 Things Your Teacher Librarian Does | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it

We love Teacher Librarians! This infographic is created by Mia MacMeekin.


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Rita Godwin's curator insight, April 20, 11:08 PM

Look at all that school librarians do!

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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Infographic

 

Sharla Shults's curator insight, May 14, 10:23 PM

The Librarian...the most diversified teacher of all!

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30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028

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30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028

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Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley

"Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility."


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Vocabla - Vocabulary App

Vocabla - Vocabulary App | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Build your English vocabulary. Collect new words you really need and memorize them in simple tests

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whynot's curator insight, May 16, 6:35 PM

clever, and you can share your lists too !

Richard Seal's curator insight, May 17, 12:29 PM

It is always good to build vocabulary in the classroom. 

Mariusz Leś's comment, May 18, 5:15 AM
Must try this.
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SmartBlog on Education - Are Twitter and educational standards divorced? -

SmartBlog on Education - Are Twitter and educational standards divorced? - | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
A lot is being said about Twitter these days in the education arena, and it seems to be a growing trend. Despite its reach, Twitter still offers a lot of r

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Gust MEES's curator insight, May 16, 9:42 AM

 

A MUST read!!!

 

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- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/

 

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/

 

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Twitter

 

- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?tag=Twitter

 

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/

 

Gust MEES's curator insight, May 16, 9:44 AM

 

A MUST read!!!

 

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- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/

 

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/

 

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Twitter

 

- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?tag=Twitter

 

- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/

 

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Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warns

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warns | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
The advance of technology means that young people who read on a screen fall behind in the classroom and fewer children now enjoy reading, the National Literacy Trust has found.

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What Questions Did You Ask Today?

"The average five-year-old asks 65 questions per day, most of them starting with "why." The average 44-year-old manager only asks six questions per day; most of them starting with "when," "where," or "how much."

The number of questions we ask per day doesn't increase until retirement. Why retirement? Because that's when we start asking, "Where are my keys?" and "Why did I walk into this room?" 

In this animated three-minute video, Chic Thompson the author of What a Great Idea!, will help you "jump start" your question asking ability."


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Eric Vanetti's curator insight, May 17, 9:53 AM

Great stuff. Asking good questions has a naturally empowering effect on others and enables self-discovery.

The BioSync Team's curator insight, May 17, 5:02 PM

“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.”
Leo Babauta

Ariana Amorim's comment, May 17, 5:03 PM
@Joan Cansdale- That's a very good question, Joan ;-) I've been googling to see if I could find some studies on that particular effect, but I haven't found nothing yet.
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5 Tools For Making Custom Timelines - Edudemic

5 Tools For Making Custom Timelines - Edudemic | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
You can use custom timelines in book reports, projects, and just about every other piece of coursework in K-12. These tools will help.
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Google Boosts Photo Offerings to Rival Facebook

Google Boosts Photo Offerings to Rival Facebook | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more...
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My New Favorite Whiteboard

My New Favorite Whiteboard | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
When I became a principal, the first thing I did to my office was take down the giant whiteboard behind my desk.
I’m an iPad guy, no doubt about it. No one wants school leaders to take advantage of cutting-edge technology more than yours truly.

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125 Ways to use Wordle in the classroom

125 Ways to use Wordle in the classroom | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
A fantastic list of ideas on how to use Wordle effectively in the classroom! Listed by subject areas. I really thought putting your lesson plan in a wordle and sharing it with the class. That would show them visually the main focus of the lesson.
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Beyond Collecting and Sharing: Twitter as a Curation Tool

Beyond Collecting and Sharing: Twitter as a Curation Tool | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
ghbrett's curator insight, May 15, 11:55 AM

See Robin Goode's comments below! Excellent.

Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight, May 17, 8:03 PM

Siempre pensamos en Twitter como una red social de microblogging en la que compartir información de una manera rápida. Sin embargo y como nos cuenta esta infografía, también puede ser una excelente herramienta de curación de contenidos.

Andrea Walker's curator insight, May 17, 10:56 PM

By using lists lists and hash tags effectively twitter can be u useful curation tool. Storify another mentioned in this article could also be a useful tool to curate twitter content

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American | 21st Century Literacy and Learning | Scoop.it
E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages

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Tracee Orman's curator insight, May 13, 6:03 PM

Great article explaining how the brain interprets text in two different formats (on screen vs. on paper). I knew there had to be a reason why reading from a book has advantages over a screen and this article offers great explanations. In my own classroom research, those who read the paper copy of books do far better on assessments than those who read the digitial copies. Also, students score better on paper tests/quizzes than on online assessments. Knowing how long the quiz or test is and being able to look back or look forward on assignments and in books really is important.