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Ten Ideas for Getting Started with 21st Century Teaching and Learning by Lisa Nielsen
Ten Ideas for Getting Started with 21st Century Teaching and Learning by Lisa Nielsen
Hey, Mathletes: Google Docs Adds Support for Equations
The feature, available under the “Insert” menu, allows you to type in full, clean equations for everything from your standard high school physics to my favorite, mutlivariable calculus (yes, I’m a math nerd). Google Docs also highlighted its addition of subscript and superscript formatting so that you can add in simple exponents and label variables.
It’s easy to see why this feature could be huge for students. A group of friends could collaborate on notes via a Google Doc, making sure that they don’t miss any of the important lecture notes. Equations in Google Docs are also simply cleaner to look at. If you’ve ever tried to read someone else’s calculus notes, you can’t help but appreciate clean equations.
The Great Literacy Debate by Ryan Bretag
21st Century Literacy ?
I like it.
Honestly, I like it a lot. Not for the fact that some feel the 21st Century has brought with it new literacies. No, I like it as a means of contextualizing the discussion of literacy and new skills and skill sets that literacy has in the 21st Century. Eventually, the 21st Century will be dropped if and when society comes to accept the skills that constitute a literate person as the norm. Right now, the discussion of 21st Century Literacy or literacies might seem repetitive and it probably is for many educational technologists who have accepted and maybe even have embraced these new skill sets. However, outside of those ed techs, the context of literacy may still be situated in a 20th Century skill set.
However, because as Heath (1980) states, "the concept of literacy covers a multiplicity of meanings, and definitions of literacy carry implicit but generally unrecognized views of its function and its use" there lies a need to define our scope of discussion if we are to convince someone of a need to evolve or expand their scope (p.123). For me, this is most readily done by stating 21st Century. For others, it is New Literacy, digital literacies, media literacy, literacies, and so on.
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