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One way to design a transfer task is to imagine what someone in “the real world” might do with that knowledge and skill – what kind of work would they be doing?
Then, build a plausible scenario where students can be in those roles, and/or make it real by having their final product, thinking, and ideas shared with an authentic audience.
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Today's society is increasingly complex. As society changes, so must education. Are we preparing students to create our future? Adobe has released a research...
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July 22, 2013 7:54 AM
Great presentation of a vital concept. Two observations: 1. "We are born creative". Watch young children when given the tools (paper, crayons, scissors, glue, toilet rolls etc) and how creative they are. Too few kids leave school with that creativity intact. 2. In the UK, designers of all sorts are being encouraged to get into schools to explain, excite and motivate. Getting individuals and firms involved is a vital step in encouraging and fostering creativity.
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Many students don't realize the difference between learning and getting good grades. This is a quick guide to a few proven ways students can learn better.
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July 2, 2013 11:18 AM
How could I apply these concepts in my own classroom?
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It's a rough time for Time Magazine. Take the cover article in this month's Town and Country Magazine: 'Empire of Excess. The Insane Egos and Extreme Expense
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AnnC's comment,
June 27, 2013 10:39 PM
The US is known for its crreativity, especially in entertainment. It is STEM where they are lagging. American love entertainment and pay for it in ways they may not recognize.
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July 12, 2013 1:29 PM
HI Jim, Thanks for following my topic. I hope that it is helpful for you . You have a great site started here.
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What is 21st century learning, and how do networks and technology function within it? Via Beth Dichter, juandoming
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May 16, 2013 10:58 PM
There are many ways we may look at 21st century learning and this post suggest that there are six channesl of learning. In fact the post notes that there are more than six channels but that "these six are emerging or have always existed as powerful players in how learners make meaning." The image above provides a visual view, and the six key areas are listed below. * Dialogic Response * Community Interaction * Abstraction and Creativity * Media Literacy * Play * Self-Directed Learning Are there other areas you would define as channels of learning? 
Drora Arussy's curator insight,
May 20, 2013 12:38 PM
Wonderful way to put it in perspective. Thank you for sharing the visual. 
Brad Reitzel's curator insight,
August 26, 2014 10:54 AM
Very important components for 21st Century learnings...media literacy should probably be number one in our list!
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TED is awesome… I recently watched a TED talk by Eddie Obeng who spoke about our fast changing world. His central focus was the idea that the pace at which the world is advancing is exponential whereas the pace of learning and education is and has been consistent. Schools are improving – we just can’t keep up.
Consequently, educators are feverishly looking for ways to make schools once-again interesting for kids.
One of my favorite progressive educational leaders and thinkers is Sir Ken Robinson@SirKenRobinson. He gave a TED talk in 2006 that has since been viewed by over 16 million people.
He is an advocate for fostering creativity in children because in the end, it will be creativity that solves the problems of tomorrow.
His concern (shared by many) is that our school systems and institutions are designed around conformity, greatly reducing the ability of educators to foster creativity.
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Tinkering... makerspaces... engineering... design thinking... learning spaces... robotics... coding...These are all things that are big in my county right now... along with a HUGE push to use techn...
I think, as educators, we need to stop talking change. We need to stop talking revolution, or reform, or transformation, or evolution or any of those other words that basically say what we’re doing isn’t working.
We need to set common goals and then use what we know about teaching and learning to reach those goals.
It’s not about test scores.
It’s not about reading and writing and ‘rithmetic–or coding, or tinkering, or making or technology. It’s about LEARNING… and COMPREHENDING… and ANALYZING… and EVALUATING… and CREATING… and THINKING… and using the habits of mind that support critical thinking, reacting thoughtfully, doing and sharing.
It’s about being a thoughtful, productive, responsible member of the society we call the human race.
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Go AWAY from OLD lessons and "Rethink" by Learning NEW Pedagogy and HowTo use the Technology on a pedagogical way...
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Education+3.0
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Proactive+Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Analytics+in+the+classroom
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With the following four variables in place, a learner can exceed expectations.
1. A good prompt, motivating challenge, or thoughtful question The genius of this approach is that it is self-evident. If you lack one of the four elements, it is obvious what needs to be done. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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April 7, 2013 7:23 PM
We want to have our kids explore their passions. Propt them to exceed expectations.
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KEYWORDS FOR THIS FREE COURSE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: . Blog, blogging, Flow Chart, Interests, Proactive Thinking, 21st Century Tools, motivation, engaging your learners (students), Learni...
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Check also:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-to-prepare-for-giving-a-good-course/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Curation
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Proactive+Thinking
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April 8, 2013 11:41 AM
Check also:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-to-prepare-for-giving-a-good-course/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Curation
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Proactive+Thinking
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By Andrew Miller
" A recent blog by Grant Wiggins affirmed what I have long believed about creativity: it is a 21st-century skill we can teach and assess. Creativity fosters deeper learning, builds confidence and creates a student ready for college and career.
"However, many teachers don't know how to implement the teaching and assessment of creativity in their classrooms. While we may have the tools to teach and assess content, creativity is another matter, especially if we want to be intentional about teaching it as a 21st-century skill. In a PBL project, some teachers focus on just one skill, while others focus on many. Here are some strategies educators can use tomorrow to get started teaching and assessing creativity -- just one more highly necessary skill in that 21st-century toolkit." Via Jim Lerman
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Organisations need to allow a certain amount of wandering around the corridors, through the accumulated knowledge, we need to mix things up a bit, create cross channel communities and be unafraid to cross boundaries. Creativity is a fire that needs fuel: relationships, knowledge, technologies, resources, we have to feed it to feel the heat.
We should welcome the curious, encourage adventure and introduce just a little uncertainty into the process of learning. You never know what it will turn up.
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Organisations need to allow a certain amount of wandering around the corridors, through the accumulated knowledge, we need to mix things up a bit, create cross channel communities and be unafraid to cross boundaries. Creativity is a fire that needs fuel: relationships, knowledge, technologies, resources, we have to feed it to feel the heat.
We should welcome the curious, encourage adventure and introduce just a little uncertainty into the process of learning. You never know what it will turn up.
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
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Scientists are always uncovering new ways into how people learn best, and some of the most recent neuroscience research has shown connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses.
Students’ social and emotional reactions to learning are imperative to feeling motivated to learn and to their ability to creatively solve problems, according to Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, who wrote Musings on the Neurobiological and Evolutionary Origins of Creativity via a Developmental Analysis of One Child’s Poetry [PDF]. Her research tries to understand why emotions are so important to learning by examining what happens to brain functions.
“Neuroimaging experiments show us that we use the very same neural systems to feel our bodies as to feel our relationships, our moral judgments, and our creative inspiration,” said Immordino-Yang, a professor at USC’s Rossier School of Education and an expert on the neuroscience of learning and creativity.
Her whose work focuses on how neuroscience can help teachers understand the ways students learn best, and to that end, she’s created a free online curriculum for teachers.
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Allowing kids the space for the interplay between the emotional and cognitive spaces will benefit the long-term learner. Check also: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Emotional-Intelligence - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
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Who are the learners today who learn in the moment because of their own interests or because they need to do so? The learners who don’t just learn on command when we want them to learn? Where are t...
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This is absolutely a MUST read for anyone!!!
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July 30, 2013 10:07 AM
Discovey explore inquiry leads todesigners and citizen thinkers #edchat
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![This Is How Mobile Social Learning Really Works [FlowChart] | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/trm59l4fVx8IysSBM7_YZDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Do you know how mobile social learning actually works? This flowchart will have you understanding and using it in no time!
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=FlowChart
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners/?tag=FlowChart-Software
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Social-Learning
===> PS: Did YOU remark THAT there is more and more CREATIVITY in Edudemic's post ;) <===
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
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More and more, our world is driven by right-brain thought. Sadly, consider what's happening today in schools. With a poor economy, budget cuts are being made across the country.
Daniel Pink shares some helpful insights about how our brains function in his book, A Whole New Mind. He describes the difference between left-brain and right-brain thinking. He argues that the old world is a left-brain world. The new one is a right-brain world. Part of our dropout problem can be summarized in one phrase: ===> we are preparing students in "Left-Brain" schools to enter a "Right-Brain" world. <=== The school does not resemble the world they'll enter after graduation. If they graduate at all.
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Part of our dropout problem can be summarized in one phrase:
===> we are preparing students in "Left-Brain" schools to enter a "Right-Brain" world. <===
The school does not resemble the world they'll enter after graduation. If they graduate at all.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
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Are you ready to make technology and creativity a big part of your classroom? Technology inspires creativity like little else and it’s time to take a close look at what technologyreally means for your classroom. This dynamic duo is here not to replace you, not to change you, but to enable you to move forward with the times, to reflect circumstances in the real world and to prepare students as citizens of the future.
Many critics of using technology in education cite the idea that once students start using technology, they’ll be unable to be creative anymore. In fact, technology and creativity really go hand in hand – more than you might imagine.
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Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them.
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===> Absolutely a MUST watch and listen to it!!! <====
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May 11, 2013 10:54 PM
America needs to understand and invest effectively in education. 
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May 19, 2013 10:55 AM
How might you contribute to the seeds of learning?
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These resources may give you ideas and strategies for approaches to visual design for eLearning.
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Check it out and learn more about Creativity here:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Creativity
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April 30, 2013 11:22 PM
Visual Design is so important fo E-learning. Check out 21 ways to get Visual ideas.
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Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
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December 4, 2014 10:18 AM
The goal of this article is to explain five fundamental insights that can guide and support educators as they endeavor to integrate student creativity into the everyday curriculum: 1) creativity takes more than originality. 2)There are different levels of creativity. 3)Contaxt matters. 4)Creativity comes at a cost. 5) Theres a time and a place for creativity. In conclusion, the ariter saying: "As parents, educators, and creativity researchers, we are encouraged by the increased attention being paid to creativity and the recognition that it has a role to play in schools and classrooms. It's essential, however, that education leaders develop a thorough understanding of creativity and that they take the time and care necessary to ensure that the benefits of creativity are realized in schools and classrooms". . Creativity Takes More Than Originality
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Spoil them with resources, but pay them poorly.
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I don't agree with ALL of that article, BUT anyway a great read...
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
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KEYWORDS FOR THIS FREE COURSE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: . Blog, blogging, Flow Chart, Interests, Proactive Thinking, 21st Century Tools, motivation, engaging your learners (students), Learni...
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Check also:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-to-prepare-for-giving-a-good-course/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Curation
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Proactive+Thinking
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March 26, 2013 6:14 PM
Check also:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-to-prepare-for-giving-a-good-course/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Curation
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Proactive+Thinking
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The world is awash with people and groups wishing to reform education. Some want to go “back to basics” while others want to go “forward to the future”.
Amongst the more progressive groups there is a surprising degree of similarity in what they propose. Thus, the RSA “Opening Minds” project in the UK or the US based P21 or the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow Today all have a high degree of overlap - indeed a Venn diagram of their views would be almost a single circle.
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A MUST read!!!
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Collaboration
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Adaptability+to+Online+Learning
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Problem+Based+Learning
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This is the second in a special Edutopia blog series about developing 21st century skills through project-based learning. In the first post, "Yes, You Can Teach and Assess Creativity!
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April 2, 2013 9:54 PM
An inspiring project-based learning opportunity! |
![Getting into the right mindset for better learning [Infographic] | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/9IBwFtArPNlaBCaSJnJCnjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Design-Thinking