The evolving context for education in the 21st century

David Puttnam / Curriculum Corporation

Teachers are immigrants in their students’ digital world and risk being sidelined as irrelevant if they fail to embrace the learning potential offered by digital technologies.

Former film producer turned British Labour politician David Puttnam keynote address at Curriculum Corporation 14th Annual Conference in Sydney said that today’s students were “digital natives” who had never known a world without a computer. But they were forced to “power down” when they entered a classroom to cope with their teachers, whom he described as “digital immigrants”, suspicious of technology and begrudging of its place in schools.

Hear the interview:
The evolving context for education in the 21st century (Audio)

Posted:13-12-2007 on the Creative Economy Blog Post.  Creative Economy  is a gateway to research and commentary on developments in Australia’s creative industries and their cultural and social impact, hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). The site draws on the resources of Australian Policy Online, together with outputs from industry groups, consultants and other researchers and research organisations.

Here a must see presentation from Kim Cofino, and she presented this at two conferences:

• Teach IT! Conference, Singapore in November 2007
• EARCOS Teachers Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2008

Watch it let me know what you think, or let others, including Kim Cofino

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Here is student perspective of the same importance:

Education In The 21st Century

The Deriving UDL Solutions Template helps you select, assemble, or create flexible learning materials and methods including tools, digital content, and Web-based materials to minimize barriers for your students. You can download it in Microsoft Word or pdf Format, to use use on screen or in print.

Learner Supports and Differentiation

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The template has three parts:

1. The Model Template shows examples of UDL solutions to the anticipated barriers and missed opportunities derived using the UDL Class Profile Maker and the UDL Barriers Finder

2. Examples of UDL Solutions is divided into three segments, addressing the three brain networks: recognition, strategy, and affect. For each, Form 3B offers examples of technology-based tools, media, and methods as well as instructional strategies to expand your repertoire and engage more students. Note that the appropriateness of these solutions and options depends upon your instructional goal. Providing scaffolds such as spell checkers for writing or text-to-speech for reading is appropriate only if the goal of a lesson is focused on process and content, not on writing or reading mechanics.

3. The Blank Template offers structured support for selecting and designing UDL Solutions for your own class.

This program was originally developed and launched for the staff at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in August 2006

This video, Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners, will provide you with a refresher on what it means to be a lifelong learner.

Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

7 ½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind
Habit 2: Accept responsibility for your own learning
Habit 3: View problems as challenges
Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner
Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox
Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage
Habit 7: Teach/mentor others
Habit 7 ½: Play

Reading and writing for understanding
HGSE Lecturer Vicki Jacobs

Secondary school students can benefit enormously when teachers of all subjects integrate reading and writing strategies into their instruction – so argues Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Vicki A. Jacobs. These strategies, typical of “reading and writing to learn” and “reading and writing across the curriculum,” are problem-solving activities designed to help students move from simply knowing a fact to understanding a fact’s significance. Helping students make that leap – from knowing to understanding – represents the very heart of the educational enterprise.

Reading and writing for understanding

Technology and 21st Century Learning: A List of Resources

“Initiatives for change that don’t involve teachers as partners in rethinking educational practices and how technology might provide radically better tools are going to have a big problem.” – Roy Pea

Here is an impressive list of articles, tools, strategies, and instructional methods to enhance teaching and learning with technology. This is a great place to start your thinking around teaching and learning in the 21st Century. As the quote above suggests, this is about all teachers becoming leaders in teaching and learning. On may argue that the 21st Century learner requires such leadership.

Feedback Model to Support Designers of Blended-Learning Courses    

Abstract

Although extensive research has been carried out, describing the role of feedback in education, and many theoretical models are yet available, procedures and guidelines for actually designing and implementing feedback in practice have remained scarce so far. This explorative study presents a preliminary six-phase design model for feedback (6P/ FB-model) in blended learning courses. Each phase includes leading questions and criteria that guide the designer. After describing the model, we report research into the usability and quality of draft versions of this model. Participants in both a small usability pilot and an expert appraisal survey rated and commented on the model. We conclude that the overall quality of the model was perceived as sufficient, although experts recommended major revisions before the model could actually be used in daily practice.

Keywords: feedback; blended learning; instructional design model

The New Literacy – 21st Century skill

Schools, colleges and university are just some of the places where learning takes place but school kids and students can spend a lot of their time in these spaces. There are other places where people learn, some through doing courses at work or online or even learning from others around them in all sorts of situations. The posts here are about learning spaces, writings about learning and technology and thoughts and ideas about all of these.

The New Literacy – 21st Century skill
Published by Worcestershire e-learning Blog on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Many educators are concerned about the way in which students seem to accept the results thrown up by Google as the ultimate truth and there are major efforts in the UK to raise the level of web literacy for students and educators alike. Understanding what you are looking at, knowing its origin and whether the content is valid is a 21st century skill for learners of any age. We have never been in the quite the position of having to validate the sources of information they way we do now. Many of us are used to paper based publications which have ISBN numbers, known publishers and which are subject to peer review or scrutiny by peers prior to piublication and we are often told something about the author. This is not the case for the web and search engines like Google. A colleague of mine created a situation in a school which was filmed for Teacher TV – a UK service sharing practice and ideas within the teaching profession. This film says it all. The New Literacy – 21st Century skill
Thank you for this post by

Dave Thomson whom writes for the education blog in the UK

21st Cenury Learning Resources and Repository

Differentiated Instruction

Effectively meet the individualized needs of students.

In addition, the strategies shared will enrich the following areas in your classroom.

Motivation • Social Skills • Classroom Management • Critical Thinking • Positive Environment

Curriculum Mapping

Explore, Plan, Evaluate, and Implement Curriculum that works.

Systemic Change • Classroom Curriculum• Collaborative Planning • Organization