21 Century Skill
Standards, assessment, and technology are all driving change. National standards are driving local decisions. Instruction is moving away from traditional seat time to an engaged and collaborative model with the teacher as facilitator rather than deliver of learning. Assessment at all levels, from standardized tests to minute-by-minute classroom formative assessment, is being transformed. Technology is becoming the platform for learning as students have instant access to real-time information and user this to generate new ideas. Clearly, the task of infusing 21st century skills into this milieu is both exciting and challenging.
I recently saw a presentation to a board of education to a board of education on a learning collaboration between the local school and a school in Tanzania. These fifth grade students used technologies to share information on their country’s government, geography, climate, natural resources, school, and family life. Grounded in language arts, math, and social studies, this exchange brought an understanding of the similarities and differences between the countries and awareness that people around that world are alike in many ways. In their presentation, the students were eloquent in their use of music, art, dance, and food to explain how each of these reflected life in their country. Through the use of technology, collaborative learning, and critical thinking, the student worldviews were expanded. Throughout the project, students kept journals, self-assessment, and rubrics to measure progress.
There is no shortage of groups and organizations, locally and globally, that have been working to define 21st century skills. Readers will find many commonalities and patterns in each of their formats and description. Yet each has its own unique approach. Some are very simply written and displayed, and others are highly complex and intricate. Some are newer and other have been available for decades. Upon reading and reviewing them, the common elements become clear. It’s also evident that terminology varies with each source. A review of basic vocabulary and multiple perspectives on 21st century learning is a good starting point for the patterns and models in the next chapters.
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction and assessment have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail
21 Century Skill
Standards, assessment, and technology are all driving change. National standards are driving local decisions. Instruction is moving away from traditional seat time to an engaged and collaborative model with the teacher as facilitator rather than deliver of learning. Assessment at all levels, from standardized tests to minute-by-minute classroom formative assessment, is being transformed. Technology is becoming the platform for learning as students have instant access to real-time information and user this to generate new ideas. Clearly, the task of infusing 21st century skills into this milieu is both exciting and challenging.
I recently saw a presentation to a board of education to a board of education on a learning collaboration between the local school and a school in Tanzania. These fifth grade students used technologies to share information on their country’s government, geography, climate, natural resources, school, and family life. Grounded in language arts, math, and social studies, this exchange brought an understanding of the similarities and differences between the countries and awareness that people around that world are alike in many ways. In their presentation, the students were eloquent in their use of music, art, dance, and food to explain how each of these reflected life in their country. Through the use of technology, collaborative learning, and critical thinking, the student worldviews were expanded. Throughout the project, students kept journals, self-assessment, and rubrics to measure progress.
There is no shortage of groups and organizations, locally and globally, that have been working to define 21st century skills. Readers will find many commonalities and patterns in each of their formats and description. Yet each has its own unique approach. Some are very simply written and displayed, and others are highly complex and intricate. Some are newer and other have been available for decades. Upon reading and reviewing them, the common elements become clear. It’s also evident that terminology varies with each source. A review of basic vocabulary and multiple perspectives on 21st century learning is a good starting point for the patterns and models in the next chapters.
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction and assessment have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail
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