21st Century Learning and Teaching

Dan KIRSCH: The following are examples of my 7th grade student’s Video projects. The objective for the students was for them to create a video describing how “Technology Has Impacted their Lives” in either a positive or negative manner.

The students were put in groups in order for them to film and describe their content. I really wanted the students to focus on how technology has become an integral part of everyday life; however can this become bad?? In essence, I wanted students to focus on the content people put on the internet and/or share information they should ==> Privacy. 

These videos were created by 7th grade students. The following videos depicting students do have permission from parents/guardians to be shown on the blog....

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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/learning-to-become-a-good-digital-citizen-digital-citizenship/

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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/education-collaboration-and-coaching-the-future/

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The new 21st century literacies: what are they, why do we need them, how do we go about learning them.

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Tasneem Raja from MotherJones makes a case for coding to become top priority in public school classrooms. Coding has been making its way into the public school curriculum slowly but with an electiv...

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The Boosting Learner Engagement with Rich Media Infographic shows how incorporating rich media can boost learner engagement and information retention.

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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Media+Literacy

Where do you go if you want to get better at your web skills? How do you even know what's important to learn? The Web Literacy Map contains the competencies and skills that Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. The Web Literacy Map is part of Mozilla’s ongoing goal to create a generation of webmakers – those who can not only elegantly consume but also write and participate on the web.  Read more

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I watch the killing that’s taking place around the world and ask myself why?

How can someone be so intolerant that they can kill another person over their beliefs? How can someone be so angry that they’re willing to take the life of an innocent child to advance a cause? How can someone be so confused that they refuse to honor and value a life?

There’s no simple answer to the horrific crisis that we face, but I’m convinced that a contributing factor is the poisoning of our minds.

We are bombarded with hatred, intolerance, and violence every day. The entertainment industry incorporates hate, intolerance, and violence into movies, music, comedy routines, and video games in order to increase sales.

The news media hypes violence to boost television ratings. Politicians appeal to our dark side to win votes. These acts are desensitizing our personal values, polluting our minds, and corroding our culture.

While violent and hateful stimulation do not affect everyone, repetitive, negative stimulation may confuse an already deranged mind and cause that mind to snap — just as steel may break if bombarded continually at its weakest spot.

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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=values