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Teachers find the most success integrating technology into the classroom when they have clear instructional goals. 
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Beth Dichter's insight:
How important it is to read aloud to young ones 15 minutes per day? To get the answer to this question explore the infographic published by ReadAloud, a non -profit organization. Although geared to parents this infographic would be great for teachers to see (and refer to in parent meetings). Perhaps it comes as no surprise that "reading aloud is the single most important thing a parent or caregiver can do to improve a child’s readiness to read and learn" according to this infographic.
Sirenetta Leoni's curator insight,
November 23, 2013 6:40 PM
All voice actors should be reading aloud for 15 minutes daily for practice anyway, so if you're not doing this already with your kids, you really need to make the time to do it. It also happens to be a great way to test out and practice dialects and characters; your kids are usually more forgiving than the reviewers on Audible and Amazon. If your grandchildren, nieces or nephews live far away, there's no reason why you can't Skype-read to them...or spend 15 minutes daily recording a book that you can send them when it's completed. And if you don't have kids in your life, your local library or school would probably love to have a professional voice actor come in and read to students. Here are tips from the SAG Foundations BookPals for reading aloud: http://bookpals.net/ten-tips-for-reading-aloud/ ...and they all lived happily ever after! 
ozziegontang's curator insight,
November 25, 2013 10:28 PM
The proof is in the reading. And making it a daily practice. 
Jan Watts's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 5:09 PM
We know this, but it bears repeating, and repeating and repeating!!!!
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"The two above images are good examples of purposeful thinking about iPad usage in schools. One, a screenshot of an oft-used tool known as 'iPad As.. by edtechteacher.org', focuses on what the iPad can be used for and provides links to various apps that can be utilised for those functions. It goes without saying that it is a very useful website for schools thinking about iPads. It provides nutshell explanations of a number of apps that relate to each iPad as… category as well as pricing. It’s a good introduction into the functionality of the iPad that counteracts the misconception of iPad as consumption NOT creation tool. The other, The Padagogy Wheel, is one of many variations on applying Bloom’s Taxonomy of skills to iPad apps. It develops from the general learning action verbs/skills we want our students to acquire to technology based activities that relate to these skills and finally to a selection of apps that can support this development."
Beth Dichter's insight:
The post continues to explore the issues noted above and raises the question of how to blend the best of both options. Gleeson goes on and raises specific areas where he would like others to provide feedback. Three of the seven areas are listed below. * Examples of apps that help to develop specific skills * Additional skills that have not been listed * Examples of good pedagogical practice with apps Continue to scroll down the post and you will find a table that slows the skills he has come up with and see where it is currently populated. Already there are a number of responses providing additional suggestions. As Gleeson says this is "a herculean task" and I look forward to seeing the finished product.
Camille Lutz's curator insight,
April 29, 2013 11:27 PM
This information is helpful when looking at pedagogy and technology. 
Tracy Hanson's curator insight,
May 1, 2013 7:22 AM
Both useful tools when setting up your iPad efficiently
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"As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them. We teach them how to read, write, and calculate. Then, of course, there are the less tangible skills we teach; such as how to work in a team, think critically, and be curious about the things they encounter each day. We want to prepare them to lead productive and successful lives once they leave us and enter into the realm of adulthood. But what lies ahead for our students in the future? Did educators of twenty years ago know that so much of our world would be based on computers and technology now? Could they have known what skills would be needed in the job market today?"
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post focuses on work published by Tony Wagner back in 2010 but the information is still relevant. Wagner interviewed CEOs of 100 major businesses and was able to come up with seven essential skills students should have for the 21st century (and yes, we are in this century). The skills are listed below and more information may be found in this post, which lists the skill and then discusses how to prepare students to meet this skill. * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving * Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence * Agility and Adaptability * Initiative and Entrepreneurship * Effective Oral and Written Communication * Accessing and Analyzing Information * Curiosity and Imagination
Mohini Lata's curator insight,
May 20, 2013 8:34 AM
As technology is becoming powerful and life changing how can we prepare students for the 21st century survival. The seven survival skills purposefully apply in a classroom. This links with Using Mathematical Higher order thinking - Critical Thinking and problem solving prepares students to see problems from different angles and formulate their own solutions. Collaboration encourages students to take on different roles. Agility and Adaptability – be willing to adapt to the changes around them.Initative and Entrepreneurship - always try. Effective Oral and written communication - how to speak confidently and clearly. Accessing and Analyzing Information- learn the difference between factual information and factual-sounding opinions. Curiosity and Imagination - teach them how to apply them creatively and purposefully. Technology has become an essential and important tool for education, helping teachers with their work and most importantly supporting the students. This also links with brief design technology and the digital technologies strand of the National Technologies Curriculum as students are taught how to use the technologies available to them.
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How does reading proficiency impact a child's life? Check out this infographic to find out. Research is showing that the a child's reading level in 3rd grade is an indicator of future success.
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Are you looking for an online platform to help children in Grades 1, 2 and 3 with math and reading? ScootPad, a leading math and reading practice platform, may be just up your alley. "ScootPad enables mastery through gradual and thorough practice which is personalized to each student - rather than providing a quick fix for problems and gaps." They are committed to provide students with a "fun, exciting and challenging learning environment"; teachers a "fully automated practice/homework, real-time progress tracking and in-depth assessments so you can enhance your instruction and provide on-time intervention"; and parents "real-time visibility to your child's progress and proficiency."
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"The crowd-sourced site Wikipedia has long been bemoaned by the academic community as an unreliable source for student research. Some educators, however, have embraced the site—not only for pointing students in the direction of quality information, but also for teaching information literacy skills." This article recommends you discuss/define terms such as crowd-sourced, open source, citation, plagiarism and more (and provides a link to an article '7 Things You Should Know About Wikis.' The article then recommends steps students should take as they explore Wikipedia for articles, in other words, use media literacy/information literacy skills as you would with any website when using Wikipedia. This is a great source to help you think about how to teach skills to your students.
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Braingenie is the Web's most comprehensive math and science practice site. Popular among educators and families, Braingenie provides practice and video lessons in more than 4,000 skills. * Learn, practice, and quiz yourself on 5,000+ skills.
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Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace. To prepare our students, lessons must go beyond the "3 R's" and foster 21st century skills. Skills like criti... This is an updated version of the "Did You Know/Shift Happens" videos. Links to sources are available on the YouTube website.
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Get lesson plans and student handouts to offer lessons that help students learn how to apply critical thinking skills when doing research online.
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Unfortunately, I was educated in a school system that believed the world in which it existed would remain essentially the same, with minor changes in fashion. We had no idea what the world had in store for us.
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Yesterday, Cynthia Germanotta and her daughter Lady Gaga launched their new initiative to empower youth: the Born This Way Foundation. The Foundation wants to create a kinder, braver world so that youth can be the change-agents that we all need them to be. For youth to be empowered, the Foundation recognizes that 1) youth need to be safe; 2) youth need to have skills; and 3) youth need to have opportunities. This post provides access to five documents that are now available for public feedback: "What You Must Know to Help Combat Youth Bullying, Meanness, and Cruelty", "Bullying Prevention 101 for Schools: Dos and Don'ts" and three additional articles. To access Born This Way go to http://bornthiswayfoundation.org/
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Gamestar Mechanic is a game and online community that teaches kids how to design their own games! Designing games builds: Systems Thinking, 21st Century Skills, Creative Problem Solving, Art and Aesthetics, Writing and Storytelling, and creates a motivation for STEM learning. There is a free version and a professional version with additional materials available. Geared to grades 4 - 9.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Mia MacMeekin provides 27 ways to be a 21st century educator in this infographic. The image above is a small portion of what she provides in the complete infographic. Click through to see all 27 elements and share your thoughts on this topic. Are there elements that you believe should be included? Do you think that you meet all the elements? Where are your strengths and which areas should you consider upgrading?
Kimberly House's curator insight,
August 11, 2014 1:59 PM
I will definitely be using this in the weeks to come. It's a good reminder for teachers.
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"The best type of curriculum for preparing students for the workforce is one that focuses on real-world problem-solving. It sounds simple, but for the first time, we have clearly established a link between students learning 21st century skills and future work success."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This report is based on a survey done by Gallup for Microsoft Learning and the Pearson Foundation. There are many findings of interest in this report. Three are below (quoted from the report). * The majority of respondents (59%) reported that they agree or strongly agree that they developed most of the skills they use in their current job outside of school. Only 15% disagree or strongly disagree, indicating they felt that they developed these skills in school. * Developing 21st century skills in the last year of school is positively correlated with higher perceived work quality later in life. In fact, those who have high 21st century skill development are twice as likely to have higher work quality compared to those who had low 21st century skill development. * Across the 21st century skills included in this study, real world problem-solving is the significant driver of higher work quality; however, less than two-thirds (63%) of respondents reported developing this skill often in the last year of school and that number drops to less than half (39%) for high school graduates Is your school providing students with these skills? The survey also noted that 59% of participants reported learning these skills outside the classroom. To go directly to the report: http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/162821/21st-century-skills-workplace.aspx.
Carolyn Williams's curator insight,
June 2, 2013 5:58 AM
Working in a corporate industry for twenty three years and seeing the rise of operators, school leavers would benefit from 21st technological studies and how that applies to the workplace.
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Mark Gleeson once again provides insight into an infographic. This one on fixed vs growth mindset. In this post he states "Originating from Stanford University psychologist/researcher Carol Dweck, its premise (from my initial reflection) is that as learners, we can either improve our intelligence through hard work or that we are born with a skill set and intelligence level that we are stuck with."
Beth Dichter's insight:
What do you think? Do your students come to you with a fixed mindset? Is there future pre-determined by birth? Is intelligence static? Or do you students come in with a growth mindset, with the knowledge that learning takes effort and time, the ability to try and fail, and try again (and again...)? Can intelligence be developed? Gleeson provides an overview of the two mindsets and explores the infographic and the five categories within in it by asking each as a question. Below is one example...but you will find questins for each category in the post (challenges, obstacles, effort, criticism, success of others). Quoting from the post: OBSTACLES: Do we allow our children/ourselves to give up when learning becomes too difficult and stay in a growth- limiting ‘comfort zone’? OR Do we expect our childen/ourselves to persist until we overcome those obstacles and celebrate the achievement of success against all odds?And if you would like to watch a short video that discusses fixed mindset check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLJPhxuvGM.
Mary Cunningham's curator insight,
April 7, 2013 12:54 PM
This fits really well with the SIM work that has been happening! It is a nice visual representation of the Dwek work.
Jaimee's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 10:06 AM
People/Students do not go for the challenges because they are scared of failure. With failure come consequences fro example low grades. Anyone can say the grade doesn't matter it is what you learned, however without the grade you can lose out on getting accepted into colleges or fail a class.
This article is about about how one can reach success by having a growth mindset. By gaining and having the drive to gain more knowledge.
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There is a laser-like focus on cool tools and apps these days. Eric Patnoudes encourages you to take a step back and take time to focus on skills.
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do we prepare out students to be 21st century learners? Should we focus on cool tools, or should we focus on skills? This post urges us to focus on skills. Tools come and go, but skills stay. If you question this concept look at the ISTE NETS for students, which include (and are quoted from the article): * Improving higher-order thinking skills, such as problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity * Preparing students for their future in a competitive global job marke * Designing student-centered, project-based, and online learning environments * Guiding systemic change in our schools to create digital places of learning * Inspiring digital age professional models for working, collaborating, and decision making. None of these mention a specific tool. As you plan a new lesson rather than focusing on a tool, focus on the skill you want to teach. As you read the Common Core standards the ability to transfer knowledge is evident. If we teach students skills the students will know how to find the best tool!
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Middle-class students tend to learn from their parents that asking for help is one way to problem-solve when completing assignments, whereas students from lower-income backgrounds tend to learn these skills from their teacher. A teacher shares her experience with students in her classroom on ways to help students learn to ask for help. An inspiring article!
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"So, what should a school in the 21st Century look like? Well, it’s more than just filling a classroom with tech. It’s about ensuring that five year olds are getting ready for a future that no-one is really be able to predict until they are much older. That also means supporting teachers and giving them the skills to help their students achieve this. Helping teachers understand why it is important for them to use it, so that they can provide useful experiences for their students."
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"Schools have found an alternative way to equip children with flexible and adaptive skills by allowing them to learn through playing video games." Did you now that video games help students develop skills in problem solving and negotiation; judgement, analysis and stategic planning; communication; narrative and transmedia navigation and more? As well as showing skills this infographic also provides names of eduational games as well as facts and statistics, how video games are used at school and skills video games help you hone. If you are interested in gamification check out this infographic.
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"These days it seems lots of "Education Reformers" and politicians what to assess students (and teachers) through more and more standardized tests. But that's not how we assess someone at their job. People are assessed in their jobs in their performance on the tasks for their job. We should do the same for students. We need to assess their ability to complete tasks and apply what they have learned to more than some multiple choice, standardized, made by some big corporation test."
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Another ebook available...This one explore the three eras of education, 21st century skills for students, and 21st century skills for teachers. This ebook will provide many resources and ideas that you may use in your classroom.
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There are many explanations for today’s uncertain economy. But Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University has advanced an analysis that’s starting to resonate. In a recent article, Stiglitz says that our problem is “rooted in the kinds of jobs we have, the kind we need, and the kind we're losing, and rooted as well in the kind of workers we want, and the kind we don't know what to do with.” To advance our economy, Stiglitz believes that wrenching, fundamental change is required – no less dramatic than the shifts experienced by an earlier generation during the Great Depression.
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I recently saw an article in eSchool news outlining the "Ten Skills Every Student Should Learn" According to the article, they are:
But what about "attributes that help kids at any level." These are skills I think kids need to learn as soon as possible, at whatever age or grade that happens. Most will be gradual, requiring parental, educational, and community support. These may take the entire village: 1. Learn to be flexible... 2. Learn to see differences as opportunities.
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How does one become a leader? What skills do you need to become a leader in your field? These are skills that are not usually taught in school. Listen to experts on psychology, leadership, business and more in these 20 TedTalks.
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How many times have you watched a PowerPoint slide show that had lots of flash, but little content? All too often teachers may try to design a lesson around a specific tool, rather than focusing on the skills we want our students to gain, and then finding a tool that will provide the opportunity for the skills to come forth.
This post shares information:
* Look past the flash
* Present an objective, not a recipe
* Let them figure it out
* Encourage collaboration
Within the post you will also find suggestions from some teachers as well as some additional links.