I found the website to be informative and not as commercialized as I expected. I would have like to see some printable charts containing the 21st Century skills available for posting in the classroom. Intel’s Teach Program: Thinking with Technology has those charts, but only on half pages. I will have to recreate them to post them in my room. Another thing I would have liked to see is links to lessons that exhibit these skills. There are activities and lessons, but I would like to see a seperate link in which all of the lessons are together. It would make the site more user friendly, in my opinion.
I was surprised to see that, while the site does not have a blog, it does have a place to submit articles for publication, if you sign up to become a member. Another thing that surprised me was that I could not find any information about Costa and Kallick’s 16 Habits of Mind. With Intel being a big supporter of this type of thinking and being a member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, I expected to find the 16 Habits of Mind in more detail.
After visiting this site, the implications for my students and myself did not change from what the implications were from reading the print resources in our Walden course. The implications remain: 1) Our students are falling behind in the technology work force. 2) We have to find ways to increase technology use in our classrooms. 3) We have to teach our students to think globally, problem-solve and collaborate.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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I agree with you, that these are skills we need to be certain our students are obtaining. Do you think this site offered any suggestions on how to implement these skills? Based on the skills developed in this site, which ones do you feel are easiest to implement? Which ones will you find to be a challenge?
There were suggestions and ideas on how to teach these skills scattered under Route 21, which you have to register for. They will all be a challenge for me. I think part of that is just the junior high age group I teach. They are not children, nor are they ready to look at the future. Brain research shows they are not ready. Yet, with how fast the world is changing, we have to get them ready.
I notice you using the word "scattered" to describe route 21. I also found it to be hard to navigate. There has to be a better way for them to present all of their resources and information. Charts would have been nice too...
I also liked the fact that they had activities but I found the categories hard to navigate. I would like to see more available to use in the world languages category because I feel that culture and languages will play a major role in the 21st century workplace. I noticed that you mentioned the need to have the students think globally. Did you find many helps in getting our students to do this on this site?
Carla, I didn't really look for thinking globally. What I did find was a game for evaluating websites. After reading "The New Literacies," I am going to incorporate the game into the new unit I am writing.
I found the unit that I wanted to design already on the 21st Century site! How cool is that? http://www.21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/micro/mm/accuracy/index.html
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