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CyberSmart!
CyberSmart! fosters 21st century skills to increase student engagement and prepare students to achieve in today's digital society.
CyberSmart! Online Workshops, facilitated professional development, give educators a hands-on experience in 21st century skills—the new basic skills—to meet the learning needs of today’s students. Educators engage in the same kinds of learning they are expected to facilitate in the classroom.
Two free resources support daily teaching. The free CyberSmart! Student Curriculum empowers students to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively. Vetted and evaluated by state educational technology groups nationwide, it is used in all 50 states and around the world. The free CyberSmart! Educator Toolbar puts 21st century skills into practice every day, with just-in-time 24/7 access to annotated essential resources to support student learning.
21st Century Skills Map for English
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the National Council of Teachers of English have designed this Skills Map for English to provide teachers with more than 75 ideas for integrating technology into the curriculum. Each idea includes an outcome and at least one lesson example
The map is organized according to the Partnership's concepts of Learning and Innovation, Information, Media and Technology Skills, and Life and Career Skills. Many of the examples feature interdisciplinary focuses on areas such as global awareness or financial literacy. Examples are given for 4th, 8th, and 12th grade, but should be easily adaptable for other grade levels.
Project Tomorrow
Project Tomorrow is a national education nonprofit group based in Irvine, California.
The vision of Project Tomorrow is insure that today’s students are well prepared to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world. We believe that by supporting the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities, students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century.
We approach our mission by:
* Conducting national research projects such as Speak Up.
* Facilitating the replication of model projects in schools and communities.
* Providing online tools and resources for students, teachers and parents.
* Contributing to the national and regional dialogue about educational issues.
Raised Digital
Today’s students were born digital but those responsible for their education were not. Youngsters arrive at school in tune with the social context and experience the Web offers. Children thrive when teachers find ways to educate them in a more flexible, hypertext manner. This space focuses on development of and support for teachers in their use of technology as they cultivate 21st century content knowledge and skills in their students.
Youth Voices
a growing community of K-12 students and teachers who are working together to nurture student-to-student conversations, collaborations, and civic actions that result from publishing and commenting on each others discussion posts, images, podcasts, bookmarks, and videos and VoiceThreads.
Students share, distribute, & discuss their digital work online
Your Digital Dossier - Teach42
Andy Carvin shared this video via tweet that does in incredible job of summing up what the New Permanent Record is, in a much more succinct way than I’ve ever managed to.
As you watch this video, consider what these students will look like when they enter your classroom. Honestly, will they care one whit whether you put their first and last name on the same page as their photo? Will their parents insist that you keep their identity private… or will they insist that you exhibit their learning publicly?
Is your school prepared for students that will have a larger digital portfolio before they enter kindergarten, than most of us educators have as adults?
Measuring 21st-century skills
To remain competitive in an increasingly global, knowledge-based economy, today’s employers need graduates who are adept at so-called “21st-century skills” such as using information and communications technology (ICT) to gather and assess information, collaborate, innovate, think critically, and solve problems. Yet, in meeting this need, educators face a few key challenges: How can they teach these skills to students in the context of the core curriculum? And, how can they measure students’ attainment of these skills?
With the generous support of Learning.com, the editors of eSchool News have compiled this collection of stories from our archives, along with other relevant resources from around the web, to help you and your staff best answer these questions in your own schools.
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