Educator Teaching and Learning Skills for the 21st Century
24 Hour Challenge
On Thursday and Friday, January 8-9, 2009 I issued a personal Twitter, Plurk & Facebook challenge. I asked my PLN (Personal Learning Network) for help compiling a list of topics they would include in a course for educators on Teaching and Learning Skills for the 21st Century. That list is below.
If you’d like to add to the list, let me know with a comment below or through Twitter, Plurk or Facebook. My ID is dennisar. I’ll consider additional comments if I need to revise this post in the future.
Topics: Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century
February 3, 2009 Draft
Broad Topics
- 21st Century Skills
- Aggregation
- Authentic Learning and Assessment
- Collaboration
- Compassion
- Creativity
- Communication
- Developing a Network
- Differentiation
- Global Communication
- Inquiry
- Media Literacy
- Personal Learning Network
- Principles of Teaching and Learning – (for example, Silver and Strong, Thoughtful Education)
- Problem-Based Teaching and Learning
- Problem Solving
- Relationships with Students, Parents, Community, and Colleagues
- Shift is away from Fixed Content to Learning on Demand
- Smart Phones
- Student Responsibility for Learning
- Technology
- Visual Literacy
Universal Design for Learning
- UDL4all: http://udl4all.pbwiki.com
- Center for Applied Special Technology: http://www.cast.org/
- A Toolbelt for a Lifetime http://tinyurl.com/5n4nkh
- UDL Technology Toolkit: http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/
Web 2.0 Tools of the Read/Write Web
- Blogs
- Bookmarking: Diigo / del.icio.us
- Content Aggregation
- Digital Storytelling
- Google Tools
- Online Photo Galleries: flickr
- Online Publishing
- Podcasting and Videocasting
- RSS
- Social Networking
- Tagging
- VoiceThread
- Wikis: Wikispaces / PBwiki
Thanks to Kelly Dumont, Alice Barr, Linda Nitsche, Neil Rochelle, Paul Hami, Michele Krill, Charlene Chausis, Sue Tapp, Jennifer Dorman, Alan Beam, Derrall Garrison, Nancy White, Deborah Vrabel, Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain
Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
January 12th, 2009 at 8:16 am
This is a terrific list. Thanks for compiling and sharing it. I think it meshes well with ISTE’s NETS for Teachers.
January 12th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Great list. Thanks for doing this. Those twitter shout outs can really get a lot of information quickly!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Great list and resource. thanks,
Dennis
January 12th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I would add visual literacy and media literacy.
January 13th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Thanks for the comments. I updated the list today based on the input I received here and through Twitter.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I am mindful – as a teacher almost in Betty Manchester’s generation – of the need to stand back and look for the aggregate ideas in any list.
Aggregate is one of them; Communicate & Network using Current Tools might be another.
I think of this for two reasons.
1. I have used your model (for EduCon, posted to Flickr) to show the Wabanaki community and teacher of Native studies in Maine that good learning has a long foundation (read: http://wabquest.edublogs.org/2009/01/25/think-about-this-wheel/)
2. We shepherded 8th graders through vocational school intro last week. This was my 4th visit. Of the programs I saw, all but 2 have changed significantly. 3 years from now, when our kids can actually go to the voc. school, 80% of what they saw will be different.
I think generalization is dangerous, but also a powerful skill. Within the parameters of all that you do – and WOW – the wheel is perhaps most impressive.
I am curious about what our Native response will be…
Betsy
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I am curious too, “…what our Native (Wabanaki) response will be….” Please stay in touch.
The wheel, however, is not mine, but as I say on flickr http://tinyurl.com/3bqq89, from Stephanie Pace Marshall’s book The Power to Transform. I think you and the Wabanaki community would appreciate what Dr. Marshall has to say about how our songline must change if we are to thrive in the future.
I will update the list of topics to include aggregation and developing a network. Thanks for your comments.
Dennis