1. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Create a “virtual handout” accessible and editable by whomever WE choose * all resources from this session * an evolving resource YOU can use David Lieberman Ross Elementary Principal LiebermanD@nhsd.net http://teach21today.wikispaces.com/

2. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING 21 st Century Teaching What will you do in YOUR classroom? UUse a PC projector UUse a Wiki or Blog DDemonstrate with an Interactive Whiteboard GGuide student interactions to find future technological solutions HOW do kids learn? HOW will you teach?

3. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Today’s Agenda

4. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Are you ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning? Are we “Keeping up with the Net Generation’s learning with our 21 st Century Teaching?

5. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING ATTENTION: All Latchkey, Generation X, and Millennial Newbies… Break into 5 groups. As a group, edit one wiki page. Physically get up and move to the next station. A new person from your group is to be the typist/editor. –Identify at just two issues within the nursery rhyme.nursery rhyme –Determine proactive and reactive solutions. –Design a future technological solution –3 minutes per station

6. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING What do you need to know, when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse-click away? How do you teach discernment and decision-making in a contemporary world? How do we prepare our students for careers that haven’t even been invented yet?

7. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING What does it do to the value of information, when everyone is a producer and knowledge isn’t static anymore? How do we address ethics and safety when we are empowering our students with such prevailing skills?

8. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING What Do We Mean by 21st Century Learning? Source: AASA Year Long Study: Preparing Schools and School Systems for the 21 st Century 16 Major Characteristics of Schools and School Systems Capable of Preparing Students for a Global - Knowledge/Information Age

9. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING

10. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Who is the Net Generation? Source: Educating the Net Generation, Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger (2005)

12. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Daily communication involves- cell phones, text messaging, IMing, Blogs, and Email Academically diverse Consumed by extra curricular activities Thrive on group interactions Ethically and racially diverse Family Oriented Tinkerers Millennials…

13. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Millennials Want to Learn… With technology With one another Online In their own time In their own place Doing things that matter I-Generation

14. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Generation We Parents aren't afraid of or clueless about technology A new generation of kids who are naturally adept with technology and comfortable with having virtual access to friends, family and the world More global outlook at a younger age Today's kids under the age of 11 are part of what Iconoculture dubs "Generation We.“ "Tivo-ization”, Guitar Hero and Interactive Gaming, MTV’s “The N”, “The Click”, and “vomitting” “Media has moved yet again and managed to reinvent itself in the family-from the hearth to the boob tube to education station to interactive experiential mode," said Iconoculture's Robinson. "It's not about being anaesthetized, it's about being engaged." Stefanie Olsen (2007), Digital kids A new crop of kids: Generation We, CNET News.com, retrieved from http://news.cnet.com/2009-1025_3-6151768.html on 8/17/08.

15. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Digital Disconnect Schools Millennials Generation We

16. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Rip. Mix. Learn. Alan Levine at the Unitec Symposium: Conversations in Teaching and Learning November 17, 2004. Rip. Mix. Burn. (Click to see video)

17. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Learning Environment of the Digital Native Non Digital Native Learning Environment Digital Native or Immigrant ? Your Accent? [Digital Immigrant Remedial Vocabulary]

18. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Quotes from Growing up Digital, by Don Tapscott Students are encouraged to think openly and think for themselves, only after memorizing everything they are told by the teacher or made to read in a textbook. By this time, if you think for yourself, question things that don't seem right or question things that don't seem relevant, you go away empty handed, ridiculed for "not paying attention to the teacher.“ -- An 18 year old

19. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Quotes from Growing up Digital, by Don Tapscott “I think that technology has changed the way adults treat me. They seem to take my opinions more seriously because they realize I just may know something they don't.” -- 16 year old

20. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Quotes from Writings & Presentations by Marc Prensky "When I go to school, I have to 'power down'“ -- a high school student "I don't want to study Rome in high school. Heck, I build Rome every day in my online game (Caesar III)." -- a high school student

21. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING 1.Today, the topic that we investigated was: *21 st Century Learning and Teaching Skills* 2.I believe I earned 5 4 3 2 1 (circle one) points today because… 3.One thing I learned from my partner (s) was… 4.It was really interesting to learn that… 5.The neatest thing I did today was… 6.One thing that I am still wondering about is… 7.A song that will remind me of today is_______________________ because …. Student Feedback Sheet

22. 21 st Century Learning Skills: A Lesson Study with 21 st Century TEACHING Share your own stories. How are [Millennials for high school; Generation X for elementary school] different? What impact should this have on the way we teach?