What should students learn in the 21st century?

Digital Citizenship What is Digital Citizenship? Digital Citizenship is a principle that helps users understand how to utilize technology in an appropriate way. In today's society, knowing and understanding Digital Citizenship is now more important than ever. That's why the students of Web 2.0 at Burlington High have made this site: to help you understand digital citizenship. Education and technology runs hand in hand as advances in technology are constantly being made. "Digital Citizenship" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. 20 Must-See Facts About The 21st Century Classroom The Current State Of Technology In K-12 7.62K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How many schools have a digital strategy? Find out in the current state of technology in K-12.

Flipping the Classroom 4/27/2012 By: Teachers from around the world have adopted the flipped classroom model and are using it to teach a variety of courses to students of all ages. In the excerpt below from the book, Flip Your Classroom (©2012, ISTE® International Society for Technology in Education and ASCD), authors Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams outline reasons why educators should consider this model. Flipping speaks the language of today’s students. Flipping helps busy students. Flipping helps struggling students. Flipping helps students of all abilities to excel. Flipping allows students to pause and rewind their teacher. Flipping increases student–teacher interaction. Flipping changes classroom management. Flipping educates parents. Flipping makes your class transparent. Flipping is a great technique for absent teachers. Flipping can lead to the flipped-mastery program. VIDEO TIP: MAKING A ONE-TAKE VIDEO By Michael Gorman Assign the Groups In the spirit of PBL, students should be divided into groups.

Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too I'm a parent, and I'm not happy. My two kids go to "great" schools, they get great grades, and by all accounts they're very successful students. Unfortunately, they're illiterate. Right now, in their classrooms, they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Those are all key components of what the National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now. Yours? Let me be clear, I'm not at all bashing their teachers, who sincerely care about my children and want them to do well in school. As others suggest, it's time for another conversation around education to start in this country, but it's one that's not being co-opted by billionaires and media corporations with tons of bandwidth and little or no experience in real schools or real classrooms. Technology, specifically the Web, expands the learning opportunities our connected children and their teachers have.

These Listening Activities for Middle School Students Help Build Important Skills Following Directions Activity One fun way to improve students’ listening skills is to give them directions and see if they can follow them. It sounds simple enough, as teachers give directions all the time in class, but these directions are to draw objects in the right space. To add more interest, turn it into a competition. All of the students who correctly draw the items from the oral directions can win candy or a small prize. Note: You will need the key that is included below. Steps to Listening and Drawing Correct Shapes These directions are to be given orally in class. Step 1: Turn your paper horizontally. After the students have finished drawing the star, square, circle and triangle, they need to trade papers. Students should check that the paper they are “grading” looks exactly like the paper on the screen. Also, if a student forgot to shade in the square or place a “happy face” in the circle, the student should also mark this wrong.

Are kids really motivated by technology? As a guy who delivers two-day #edtech workshops during my breaks from full-time classroom teaching, I’m often asked the same questions again and again: How can teachers use technology to motivate students? What digital tools do kids like best? My answer often catches participants by surprise: You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almost always ambivalent toward digital tools. While you may be completely jazzed by the interactive whiteboard in your classroom or the wiki that you just whipped up, your kids could probably care less. Need proof? Early in my technology integration efforts, I set up a blog for my students, introduced it excitedly to every class, and proceeded to get exactly zero posts in the first two months of its existence despite my near-constant begging and pleading. But they weren’t, and my grand blogging experiment died before it ever really began.

Natural Consequences – Why You Should Let Your Child Fail Watching your child fail makes you feel helpless, angry and sad. You worry about everything from your child’s self-esteem and social development to their future success. James Lehman explains that while it’s natural for parents to worry about failure, there are times when it can be productive for kids—and a chance for them to change. "Failure is an opportunity to get your child to look at himself." Parents tell me all the time that they fear their child will fail in life. I’d like to talk about the word “crisis” for a minute. Many of the parents I see are uncomfortable with this at first. Once again we see the danger of your child thinking that power can solve his problems. Many parents have reasons to justify their defense of their child. I think if your child didn’t do his homework, ignored a project that was due, or lied and misled you or his teacher, the fact remains that it’s his responsibility to experience the natural consequences of his actions. 1. 2. 3.

Have You Mastered 21st Century Teaching Skills? Susan L. Davis blogs for Voices from the Learning Revolution and Getting Smart, where this post first appeared on August 23. The back-to-school flurry has begun. Teachers all around you are decorating bulletin boards, organizing their gradebooks, and collaborating on which ice-breaker games to use with their advisories. Your administration has prepared you well for the coming year. But have you mastered the 21st century skills every teacher should know? 1. Do you pop your topic into your preferred search engine and skim the first page of responses for something that looks good enough – just like our students do? Do you know how to conduct a “clean” search that doesn’t predict what it thinks you are looking for based on your past searches? If you found yourself stuck on the first question, here are some resources to help you get back up to speed. Alan November is the guru of all things related to Information Literacy, if anyone can claim that title. 2. 3. 4. My Point About the author

7 Ways To Use The iPad To Help Students Excel At School Even though everybody has their own preferences of using the iPad in their studies, allow me to share 7 iPad usages to help students excel at school. Replace Physical Books This one should be obvious. There are lots of book readers available for iOS. A Quick Source Of Reference Again, there’s lots of iOS apps out there that can help you find definitions, facts, statistics, and other things you want to know. Find & Collect Data & Ideas Even though finding and collecting data and ideas can be done from any gadget, doing it on an iPad will add a fun factor to the process. Safari for iOS – to browse and find quick informationFlipboard (iTunes link), Zite (iTunes link) and Pulse (iTunes link) – to read news and find ideas to write about. To save the information, I could quickly email it to myself or send it to Instapaper/Read It Later using the share feature on these apps. Jot Down Notes All of them are capable of synchronizing your text collection to other devices. Do Actual Study Have Fun

Creativity – an infographic collection on the process of creativity National Gallery of Australia Australian Council of Art and Design University Schools Association of Independent Schools NSW International Society Technology in Education (ISTE), USA iPadpalooza, USA 21st Century Learning International National Arts Education Association (NAEA), USA TAFE Queensland The Kellett School, Hong Kong Queensland Art Teachers Association Queensland University of Technology Apple Consultants Network Lutheran Education Australia Brisbane Catholic Education State Library Queensland EduTECH Teacher Training Australia Lady Gowrie Childhood Education Queensland Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane Griffith University

Annotate, Correct and Edit Documents on Your iPad | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> As I approach a significant academic milestone this semester with the completion of my dissertation and PhD, I thought I’d share a very handy iPad application I’ve been using to annotate, correct and edit PDF versions of my own writing recently: iAnnotate PDF. iAnnotate PDF is $10 on iTunes, but it’s worth every penny. I love how iAnnotate PDF supports highlighting, adding notes to pages, and also freehand writing. On this day..

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