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21st Century Schools and Learning (for Educators and Parents)
Edmodo
At Edmodo, we help teachers make their classroom a community. This site provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner. A great resource to close the gap between how students live their lives and how they learn in school.
http://www.edmodo.com
VoiceThread.com
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways: using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies.
http://voicethread.com
Collaborize Classroom
Safe and password-protected learning community for you and your students that keeps the learning process fresh and interesting for kids. Offers ways to streamline conversations and drive to specific learning outcomes with structured topic types; take a poll, hold a debate, post a practice test or let your students support their arguments; launch student-driven projects and challenge-based learning; let your students be heard and support each other in dynamic conversations; bring the best resources from the Internet into your online classroom by attaching pictures, videos, PDF or Microsoft Office® Documents, and more.
http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com
Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
This is powerful video by educator Karl Fisch about how quickly changes in technology, globalization, population, and information are occuring. I have shown this video in my seminar because in these five minutes, Fisch gets across the need for schools to shift out of the assembly-line model (a topic that’s been at the foundation of my books and presentations for much of my career) with great visual clarity and emotional impact. Click here to view the YouTube video.
Also, click here to see different versions of this content and text in several formats (video, PDF, Word), additional quotes, and two other terrific “Fischbowl Presentations.” Great stuff.
RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms
An absolutely brilliant animation of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson, which covers many of the primary points in The Win-Win Classroom and Creating Emotionally Safe Schools in an amazing 11-minute video. Well worth watching and sharing! Click here to view.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future
by Daniel Pink
Nearly 25 years ago, I wrote (in a now out-of-print book called 21st Century Discipline) about the need for schools to catch up to the needs of the Information Age. Many of the skills I described are among those Pink lists as requirements of what he calls the Conceptual Age, which he distinguishes from the “knowledge workers” of his Information Age as requiring the recruitment of right-brain talents for the development of six senses: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning.
The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman
What Friedman means by flat is connected: the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations, but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world. Includes specific recommendations about the technical and creative training he thinks will be required to compete in the “New Middle” class. (Excerpted and adapted from an editorial review on Amazon.com by Tom Nissley)
Also see “Brave New World: The Changing Role of the School”
Related links:
Digital Culture and Citizenship
Content, Instruction and Skill Building Links & Resources
Directory of links by Topic or Category.
Index of all links and resources.
Hire Jane: Everything you need for your next conference or professional development event
Jane’s Calendar
Click here (or on the image to the left) to see Jane’s schedule. Click here for a map with links to dates that she will be in your area.
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