Thinking Thoughtfully About Technology and Standards

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Encore! Encore! 21st-Century Learning Visions and
Standards
(Like lasagna, I hope its even better on the 2nd
day.)
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• Road Map for this Morning
• Reviewing the National Perspective on Visions and
  Standards for the 21st-Century Learner - Kristin
• 21st-Century Learning in Action - Kim
• Technology and 21st-Century Learning Rosa
• Questions Discussion
• Character Ed.

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The future wont look like this.
Source http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul30.ht
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The office and executive jobs he envisioned may
no longer exist or be in Michigan or be
plentiful enough for all of Beverlys children.
Henry Ford at the White House Source
http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul30.html
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We cant assume that our students will have the
same types of jobs we have now. But we can help
them prepare for a rapidly changing,
unpredictable future.
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21st-century learning is an extension of our
core values what we know to be true about good
learning and the whole child.
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"School is about practicing to wrap one's
mind around real and complex ideas, those of
fundamental consequence for oneself and
forthe culture." - Theodore Sizer
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• Stretch our definitions of learning
• Acquisition
• Meaning
• Transfer
• Wiggins McTighe
• 2008

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ISTE - NETSS iste.org
Partnership for 21st Century Skills http//www.21s
tcenturyskills.org
ASCD Whole Child Ascd.org or wholechildeducation.o
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AASL Standards for the 21st-Century
Learner www.ala.org/aasl
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• Healthy kids lifestyle
• Intellectually challenging environment
• Physically emotionally safe
• Active engagement
• Connected to school community
• Personalized learning
• Qualified, caring adults
• Prepared for college/further study global
  environment

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• A group effort
• Community
• School
• Teacher

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In a nutshell USING information. Not FINDING it.
AASL Standards
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In a nutshell USING information. Not FINDING it.
You can go home now.
AASL Standards
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• Learners use skills, resources, and tools to
• inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge
• draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply
  knowledge to new situations, and create new
  knowledge
• share knowledge and participate ethically and
  productively as members of our democratic
  society
• pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

The Four Standards
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• More Than Skills
• Subsections for each
• standard
• skills
• dispositions
• self-assessment
• student responsibilities

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Images from corporate Web sites
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Kaizen
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• Buzzwords
• Student-Centered Learning
• not packet-centered or teacher-centered
  curriculum
• Learning for the new global environment
• Cultural sensitivity, teamwork, distance
  communication, flexibility, technology fluency
• Mastering a flexible cognitive/behavioral toolkit
• Not mastering random facts
• Habits of Mind
• Dispositions
• Transferable knowledge
• Application of what you know

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• Buzzwords
• Motivation
• Dont waste our time
• Using technology tools for learning
• Not tools for tools sake
• Not all tech, all the time
• Building independent students
• Helping kids know what good work looks like
• Ability to self-assess reflect (metacognition)
• Taking responsibility for learning
• What was the student learning in this
  situation?
• Were they learning to follow directions?
• Or learning content?

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• Buzzwords
• Differentiation
• Inquiry
• But not without building fundamental skills
  first!
• Creativity/Synthesis/Innovative Thinking
• More about this at the next staff meeting
• Authentic Work, Authentic Audiences
• Collaboration/Social Learning
• Research backs this up

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Hint Think science. Theres a lot of best
practice goin on in science.

• Buzzwords
• Differentiation
• Inquiry
• But not without building fundamental skills
  first!
• Creativity/Synthesis/Innovative Thinking
• More about this at the next staff meeting
• Authentic Work, Authentic Audiences
• Collaboration/Social Learning
• Research backs this up

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Questions? Now heres Kim to show us whats
already happening in our school.
References list available upon request Image
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