Tom Jones
(Manchester - United States)I am a retired high school principal in my 3rd year of post-retirement re-employment teaching high school English.
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Introduction
In this unit you will learn about 21st Century Skills and how they relate to education. You will report on what you've learned by creating a document, presentation, or chart using Internet collaboration tools.
Objectives
1) Identify 21st Century Skills
2) Categorize 21st Century Skills Readings Access the following readings from the http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/21stcenturyskills network (del.icio.us.com is a social bookmarking application). 1) The Intellectual and Policy Foundations of the 21st Century Skills Framework, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2007. 2) Virtual Schools and 21st Century Skills, written by The North American Council for Online Learning And the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, November 2006. Optional: 3) Chapter 3, pp 59-88, Online Games for 21st Century Skills of Gibson, D., Aldrich, C., and Prensky, M. (2007). Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks, Information Science Publishing, PA. See http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/books. Video Access the following videos from http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/video and watch: 1) You Tube video, A Vision of Students Today (5 minutes). 2) Frontline video, Growing Up Online: Chapter 1: Living Their Lives Essentially Online (7:34 minutes), and Chapter 2: A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life (9:04 minutes). Activities For this activity you will create a document, presentation, chart, etc. using an Internet collaboration tool such as Google Docs or Zoho. 1. Register for an account for the Internet collaboration tool you select; some suggestions are located at http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/collaboration. 2. In the document you prepare categorize some of the 21st Century Skills from the readings, video, or any other resources you have collected. 3. Publish and share the document on http://virtualedworld.ning.com in the 21st Century Skills forum. Note: You must register and become a member at http://virtualedworld.ning.com to post or notify me of your publication.
2) Categorize 21st Century Skills Readings Access the following readings from the http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/21stcenturyskills network (del.icio.us.com is a social bookmarking application). 1) The Intellectual and Policy Foundations of the 21st Century Skills Framework, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2007. 2) Virtual Schools and 21st Century Skills, written by The North American Council for Online Learning And the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, November 2006. Optional: 3) Chapter 3, pp 59-88, Online Games for 21st Century Skills of Gibson, D., Aldrich, C., and Prensky, M. (2007). Games and Simulations in Online Learning: Research and Development Frameworks, Information Science Publishing, PA. See http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/books. Video Access the following videos from http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/video and watch: 1) You Tube video, A Vision of Students Today (5 minutes). 2) Frontline video, Growing Up Online: Chapter 1: Living Their Lives Essentially Online (7:34 minutes), and Chapter 2: A Revolution in Classrooms and Social Life (9:04 minutes). Activities For this activity you will create a document, presentation, chart, etc. using an Internet collaboration tool such as Google Docs or Zoho. 1. Register for an account for the Internet collaboration tool you select; some suggestions are located at http://del.icio.us/virtualedworld/collaboration. 2. In the document you prepare categorize some of the 21st Century Skills from the readings, video, or any other resources you have collected. 3. Publish and share the document on http://virtualedworld.ning.com in the 21st Century Skills forum. Note: You must register and become a member at http://virtualedworld.ning.com to post or notify me of your publication.
