21st eTeacher Resources
Description:21st Century eTeacher Resources are collected and presented by the National Institute of Aerospace and Nortel LearniT to develop and implement a pioneering model to prepare our nation's educators for a 21st century approach to teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM.) By focusing on the use of 21st century skills and strategies to meet the needs of our millennial students, NIA and Nortel LearniT train teachers to use experiential, inquiry-based teaching. Coupling NIA expertise in science, engineering, and mathematics with Nortel LearniT's technology integration resources creates a powerful environment for teachers to build and enhance their 21st century teaching skills and teaching techniques using the information and best practices in this resource collection. Each resource page provides direct access to ready-to-use technology integration resources, including videos, PowerPoint® presentations, documents, PDFs, URL's, and wiki references. Application of the Six Principles of 21st Century e-Teaching in meeting 21st century learners' needs is addressed throughout. To extend this, the pivotal role of technology infusion in effective use of the Nortel LearniT implementation of the 6ES constructivist model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate, Extend, and Standards) is treated in a section devoted to that topic. The main sections (subpages) are: e-Students: Who are the Millennials? What defines Best Practice? What 21st century skills and resources are needed to implement Best Practice in the use of instructional technology? Instructional models, including evolving the constructivist 5E model to 6ES with technology infusion. How do you assess and measure successful technology integration? Video Vignettes: Tools for Best Practice
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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- Asset: Reference
- From: 21st Century eTeachers
- Contributed By: LearniT TeachiT
Who are the Millenials?
Description:The resources on this page describe the "new" learners, the millennial learners, whose learning styles are influenced by growing up with today's technologies.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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- Asset: Reference
What Defines Best Practice?
Description:Explores what defines and exemplifies Best Practice; How do we put Best Practice into practice; what is the best use of technology in education; how can a technology-infused learning process best be implemented? Begins with definition of Best Practice in education and a series illustrations. Detailed examples are provided of: What is real world authentic learning? What is the difference between Ed Tech and Tech Ed? What is inquiry-based education? What is design-based instruction?
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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What 21st century skills and resources are needed to implement Best Practice in the use of instructional technology?
Description:These resources are a collective tutorial on skills to enable technology integration and foster best practice implementation. Includes digital audio, digital imaging, Multimedia Communication Server (voice over IP), PowerPoint, web page creation, Windows MovieMaker, concept mapping tools, streaming video, and Open Office. subpages enable technology integration and foster best practice implementation.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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- Asset: Reference
Instructional models, including evolving the constructivist 5E model to 6ES with technology infusion.
Description:These resources illuminate the essence of the constructivist learning model allowing students to build learning on top of existing learning in a hands-on, mind-engaged way. The evolution of the constructivist 5E model to the Nortel LearniT 6ES model with technology infusion is presented. Outlines the educational E's (and an S for Standards) are: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate, and Extend.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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- Asset: Reference
How do you assess and measure successful technology integration?
Description:Reviews some practical illustrations of technology integration's role in effective education. Explores how does the use of instructional technology meld the real world environment of today's digital natives with their learning experiences? Kids use computers, play video games, and have mini digital cameras before the training wheels are off their bikes. How effective are these tools in the classroom? Considers how technology combined with inquiry-based instruction increase student learning.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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How can 21st century technology support ongoing collaborative learning?
Description:Expores how 21st century technology can support ongoing collaborative learning. Explores collaborative learning tools that offer teachers opportunities for sharing and effectively integrating technology into learning experiences. Moodle, for example, creates an international collaborative community and connects you with this large and diverse learning community with over 330,000 registered users speaking over 70 languages in over 196 countries.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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- Asset: Reference
Video Vignettes: Tools for Best Practice
Description: Explores how educational best practices are developed, d implemented and shared? Investigates and explains What educational Best Practice looks and sounds like? Through these short video segments (vignettes) and the associated basic steps and related resources, we showcase teachers modeling and implementing best practice in teaching to build training tools for others. Includes illustration of the research lesson process and video depiction of how to create an educational video segment illustrating a best practice process.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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Best Practice Vignette-Geometry Inclusion
Description:Team teaching is central to this video segment focusing on differentiation in a high school geometry inclusion class. Observe how a geometry teacher and geometry inclusion teacher use discovery to build a student-centered lesson.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Education
- Educational Technology
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- Grades 9-10 / Ages 14-16
- Grades 11-12 / Ages 16-18
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- high
- 9th
- 10th
- secondary
- freshman
- sophomore
- teen
- 11th
- 12th
- senior
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Team teaching is central to this video segment focusing on differentiation in a high school geometry inclusion class. Observe how a geometry teacher and geometry inclusion teacher use discovery to build a student-centered lesson.
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Best Practice Vignettes-Language Arts Inclusion
Description:Performance assessment and collaborative work are showcased in this middle school language arts video segment.
Last Updated:Sep-14-2009
Subject(s):- Career & Technical Education
- Education
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- College & Beyond
- Professional Development
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- Asset: Video/Presentation/Slides
Performance assessment and collaborative work are showcased in this middle school language arts video segment.
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