Sarah Hanawald's List: IOI bookmarks

• A walled blog

  • This is what AP and LA 6 use

• active instruction of students, parents, and administrators on topics concerning digital citizenship, safety, and success.  We want to mobilize ONLINE but take our actions OFFLINE into our own communities and schools. 

• The online DETAILS for the 21st Century Questionnaire (formally known as the LoTi Questionnaire).  The DETAILS for the 21st Century Questionnaire has been revised and updated to align with the initiatives set forth by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

• "How can I use LoTi in North Carolina?"

   

  The NBEA and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction have been working together to determine how LoTi can best be utilized throughout North Carolina. Access to the LoTi Lounge including the online DETAILS for the 21st Century Questionnaire (previously known as the LoTi Questionnaire), individual questionnaire results profiling personalized professional development needs based on five empirically-validated skill sets, and an extensive database of resources catalogued by grade level and subject area are available at no cost to educators in the State of North Carolina. This donation continues the process of schools in North Carolina evaluating their instructional uses of technology for the purposes of improving student achievement tied to the initiatives set forth by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The links above include instructions for getting started with LoTi and viewing LoTi results for North Carolina educators.

• So how can regular folk get involved with social media? And how much time does it really take?

• • IOIers--this article might be good for
• Twitter is the app that everyone loves to hate. Odds are you've noticed people — probably much younger than you — manically using Twitter, a tool that lets you post brief updates about your everyday
• The power is in the surprising effects that come from receiving thousands of pings from your posse. And this, as it turns out, suggests where the Web is heading.
• But when I get such granular updates every day for a month,
• For example, when I meet Misha for lunch after not having seen her for a month, I already know the wireframe outline of her life: S
• why has Twitter been so misunderstood? Because it's experiential.
• quick-ping media can be a massive time-suck.
• Twitter's a great way to sharpen your thoughts down to their essence.

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• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in the graphic and descriptions below. The graphic represents both 21st century skills student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century skills support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom):

• Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally
• This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. His taxonomy follows the thinking process. You can not understand a concept if you do not first remember it, similarly you can not apply knowledge and concepts if you do not understand them. It is a continuum from Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Bloom labels each category with a gerund.

• Carl Glickman hits the nail on the head on one of the pages in his book entitled Leadership for Learning: How to Help Teachers Succeed. In my opinion, his message should be read and synthesized by every teacher worldwide.