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Curriculum to teach technology and digital literacy.
Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.
"Are our schools teaching the 21st Century skills that students need and employers are looking for?\nWatch this video and let us know what your think!"
Challenging us to reflect on what we do, Dewey would ask us to pause to think more about how learning through technology serves as a point in the development of experience. In what ways is the experience afforded by interaction with a computer a substitute for other modes of learning? Does it bear the same relation that the map does to the territory, in which case it may be a feeble abstraction for direct, lived experience? Or, does it provide new avenues for experience and the means to access previously inaccessible realms? Perhaps computer interaction serves best as a means to reflect upon, analyze, and extend other experiences? The point here is not that there are simple answers to these questions, but that serious consideration of them may enlarge our understanding of how we may best make use of new technologies and make sense of their impact on students.
Finally, Dewey would certainly value learning technology, if it means that students become more capable of participating in society and enlarges the scope of their abilities to communicate. On the other hand, he might question learning technology if that were conceived merely as preparatory to later life.
The leading organization in facilitating development of standards related to technology in education is the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). ISTE has led the development of the widely adopted National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), standards which guide educational leaders in recognizing and addressing the essential conditions for effective use of technology to support Pre K-12 education. Included within the NETs are Technology Foundation Standards for Students, which describe what students should know about technology and be able to do with technology. More information about these standards, and how the current curriculum supports them, is available on our Curriculum and Content Area Standards page.
20 items | 7 visits
Resources for curriculum development or theory
Updated on May 27, 14
Created on Jun 07, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: