Comparing 20th and 21st Century Education paradigms

I like from the comparison that the 21st century learning seemingly will be more relevant to the student. It is hard some times to engage students, but I feel if we use their social media as a form of collaboration in a discussion format it will greatly benefit the teacher and the students. Moving from a DI instructional method to more of a constructivists approach I find sounds good on paper, but does not hold up as a single way of testing. Constructivist learning will never fully replace Direct Instructional methods it helps to enhance the learning process. As a science teacher I like using structured inquiry, so students get a little DI, with Literacy skill and the inquiry based learning as well. I also like the feedback approach of the 21st century teacher, giving students praise, feedback and direction is a good way to build a learners self esteem.

How much do you feel that standardized testing is going to promote DI versus a Constructivist models?

Learning Pyramid

I like the Learning Pyramid, I think it makes a nice visual for students to understand the higher order of thinking. I don't think we need to baby our students, if we let them know what we know they will understand the importance of a good educational experience as we do. This is nice and colorful it could be blown up and laminated as a wall chart.

Education 2.0

We are clearly living in a different age than the industrial revolution. The 1990's brought us the computer era and currently we are in a era of high social networking, collaboration and communication related to the advances in technology. I recently upgraded my phone, simply because many business associates keep telling me did you get my text. If you hold to tightly on the past you will miss the future (Dr Pat J Alfarone).

With the current economic state of the country, how should schools spend on technology?

URL Video on Education 2.0 below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE&feature=related

21st Century Literacy

21st Century Literacies

What do you think about the statement below?

I Like Howards Gardners point of view, language is growing each day at a rapid pace and in all different forms from standard text to computorized texting, from local slang to globl slang. Meaning can be derived from all froms of communication visual, non verbal commands, signs and symbols. It is important to keep up with the common communication of your students. Knowing the difference between fat and phat can go a long way when trying to connect with the 21 st century student.

In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium.


Basic Language Literacy
Online Reading Strategies (A Think Aloud)
Online Reading Strategies (PowerPoint)
Phonetic and Pictorial Alphabets
New Meanings
Paragraph Art
Argument and Persuasion
Constructing an Argument
Resources for Young Writers
Literary Club
Bone From a Dry Sea (from a factual quiz to thinking activity)
Socratic Seminar Rubric (.pdf)
Visual Literacy
Reading Photographs: Handout
Visual Literacy Project: Plan Brainstorming
Spatial Literacy
Three Information Literacy Questions to Ask About a Map: Handout
Historical Literacy
Primary Sources
Reading the Context: Martin Luther King
Turn of the Century Child (An American Memory Fellows Project)
Cultural Literacy
Ethnography Project
Information Literacy
Building Blocks of Research
Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Need
Choosing Invisible Web Databases
Teaching the Commons (Powerpoint)
The Ethical Researcher
Who knows what? A School-wide Lens on Evaluation: Handout
Deconstructing a Web Site: Advocacy or Education?
Political Literacy and News Media Literacy
Reading Media Photographs
You are Shocked
Libraries and the First Amendment
Scientific Literacy
Genetics #1, #2
Global Warming: Science and Society
Mathematical Literacy
Job Search: Mathematician
Finding and Using Data
Students' Financial Literacy Eroding (San Francisco Chronicle)

Learning to Change Changing to Learn video

We first learned at MSMC that teachers are to prepare students with the skills needed for the real world. Technology is simple a new skill used by society. From listenin to the speakers it sounds like a new form of vocational training. When I was in highschool there was two basic paths. One focused on academics to prepare you for college the other boces that prepared you for the trades. Many technology jobs are simply the new trades workers. So instead of auto shop and wood shop, we are adding computorized architectual design. So are we as teachers our we preparing them for college or a trade, like in the past I think it is a little bit of both.

Digital Natives

I think this is very true that students today are growing up in a very different world. Kids use to play outside and create simply games, rhymes, and songs. Today kids are hooked in to all forms of electronic devices for information, games and social interaction. The chart above really outlines the differences quite well. For teachers of the 21st Century to connect with their students, they are going to need to connect with the new technology. One of the best was to engage students is to show educational skills to career skills. By being savvy with technology you can grab their attention by both a surprise arousal and a inquiry arousal method.