In this course you will learn about a wide variety of Web 2.0 tools to use in your teaching and learning. Web 2.0 tools provide innovative ways to communicate, present content, and collaborate with others in creative ways. Web 2.0 tools are easy to learn, use, and implement, and many are free. This course will not only introduce you to popular Web 2.0 tools like Edmodo, Twitter, Voicethread, and Skype in K-16 instruction, but you will also learn how to effectively integrate these technologies into your classroom practices and create engaging student activities.
21st Century Skills
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Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools
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Bernard R RobinAssociate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Sara G. McNeilAssociate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Before we start working with Web 2.0 tools,
let's review what we mean by 21st century skills.
21st century skills are those abilities
that enable students to access, analyze,
manage, synthesize, evaluate, create and
share information in a variety of forms and
media that incorporates a global perspective.
Educators can leverage these skills to support 21st century
learning outcomes that are associated with preparing students
to meet the needs of an ever evolving workforce.
These skills are not associated directly with particular content areas,
but rather encompass skills that students need to be successful
lifelong learners in an increasingly interconnected world.
21st century skills refer to competencies in creativity,
communication, collaboration, digital literacy,
critical thinking, and problem solving.
We've also added skills in reflection and feedback as well.
Education experts, however,
do not agree on a universal definition of 21st century skills.
And they also disagree on whether technology skills should be taught, and
what learning environments should be developed to support their acquisition.
Some professionals say basic skills like reading and
mathematics should be emphasize and there is little evidence
that classroom technologies have improved student learning.
They urge society to focus on a broader, more liberal education,
not one narrowly focused on preparing the workforce.
The idea of teaching students how to find and
interpret information, and apply critical thinking skills to
a real-world tasks is not a 21st century idea.
Most of the skills had been an integral part of the progressive education movement
since the early days of the 20th century.
In 1915 John Dewey and his daughter Evelyn wrote a book titled Schools of to-morrow.
In this book, they described the changes needed in education and
emphasized that students did not need to add more information, but
rather needed to connect what they learned with their lives.
Many education experts feel that 21st century skills
are only an echo of progressive education ideas.
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge or TPACK for
short, is a conceptual framework developed by Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra.
It describes how technologies can be best employed in different pedagogies for
facilitating the acquisition of content knowledge.
TPACK identifies three primary forms of knowledge, content,
pedagogy, and technology, and
emphasizes the new kinds of knowledge that occur in the overlapping areas.
The TPACK model emphasizes the need for all three areas,
content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and
technological knowledge to be integrated in instruction.
We hope that this brief look at 21st century skills was helpful to
you in providing more information and foundational knowledge in this area.
We will talk more about 21st century skills in our
discussion groups related to Web 2.0 tools.
I hope that you will join us.
