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The Differentiators: Learning is at times, personal, social, and collaborative. High tech tools serve as an extension to the student's thinking -- a place to explore ideas, research questions, test hypotheses, compose thoughts, and come to conclusions - in other words, to learn. These tools serve as vehicles for building skills, advancing thinking through multimodal learning, collaborating through social networking and increasing understanding through authenticity, - highly effective differentiators of learning. Join this session to learn how technology can open doors to learning never before possible, i.e., ways of learning that will engage both your students and you! The result will be deeper learning and more engaged students. Take a look at how these tools are being used effectively by schools to advance literacy, scientific thinking, critical thinking, self-direction, global awareness, and cultural literacy.
Critical Thinking Augmented Through Digital/Social Technologies
Innovation drives success in today’s global, high tech, connected society. Thus, in order to thrive in the 21st Century, students will need to be critical and innovative thinkers. Today’s adolescents have experienced a coming of age through a lens on the world that is digital, highly social, and extremely interactive. On average, 13 to 18-year-olds spend more than 6 hours a day using digital media. These same students are often disengaged from an education system that has not yet capitalized on the power of today’s technologies. In order to re-engage learners, schools must leverage the high tech tools of contemporary learners. Student must learn to use these tools to be creative, curious, collaborative, and self-directed as they adapt to the complexity of a knowledge age. In addition they will need to be risk-takers as they hone higher order thinking into lifelong learning strategies. Join this session to learn more about these key 21st Century skills, how they translate into the classroom, and how your school might engage in the systems thinking necessary to ensure that all students acquire their 21st Century skills. The session will be grounded in theoretical and empirical research.
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Cheryl Lemke's Slides
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Critical Thinking Hotlinks
- Great article by Bridget Barron from Stanford: Barron, B. (2006). Interest and self-sustained learning as catalysts of development: A learning ecology perspective. Human Development, 49, 193-224.
- Movie on Geometry and Architecture: from the George Lucas Foundation Site
- Three Persepctive on Learning: Kai Hakkarainen Networked Expertise:Hakkarainen, K., Palonen, T., Paavola, S., & Lehtinen, E. (2002). Networked expertise: Professional and educational perspectives. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. Purchase Article
- Deanna Kuhn: Book: Education for Thinking
- Diane Halpern: Book: Thought and Knowledge (HS)
- Rosen and Solomon (2007)
THE DIFFERENTIAL LEARNING ACHIEVEMENTS OF
CONSTRUCTIVIST TECHNOLOGY-INTENSIVE LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS AS COMPARED WITH TRADITIONAL ONES: A META-ANALYSIS. EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING RESEARCH, Vol. 36(1) 1-14.
Student Engagement: Metiri Group: 310.945.5155 (Cheryl Lemke) |
Differentiators Hotlinks:
- Arapahoe High School: Student Blogging
- WISE - Inquiry Science Units (Frogs)
- Teacher from Oklahoma: Algebra Class: T. Norfar's blog
- Self-directed learning.
- I*EARN - global meeting place for international projects for schools
- Democratization of Knowledge
- Flow: Csikszentmihalyi - Book: Creativity/Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Innocentive: Company that brings problems and problem solvers together
- Wordle: Graphic visplay of paragraphs of text
- Practice Guide from IES: Kamil, M. L., Borman, G. D., Dole, J., Kral, C. C., Salinger, T., and Torgesen, J. (2008). Improving adolescent literacy: E!ective classroom and intervention practices: A Practice Guide (NCEE #2008-4027). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc.
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Resources:
Cisco/Metiri Reports
How People Learn-Online Book by National Research Council |
