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May 10: What is 21st Century Learning?
Next steps:
 * Finding practical, functional uses for specific tools - not just using the tools for the sake of tools.
 * ebooks - a keeper for sure - epubbud.com
 * Motivate other teachers in our buildings to at least try some of these strategies
 * A priority MUST be given to finding time for teachers to work on this
 * Change has to happen from the top down - allowing teachers to let some things go in the quest for 21st century skills
 * Find ways to utilize the resources (technological and people) in our own buildings



Feedback - From: Wiggins. Less teaching and more feedback. Children do work and teacher provides feedback. Out of Harvard research feedback to smart kids is that they succeed because they are smart, rather than because they work hard.
 * **Name** || **Grade/Subject** || **Conference** || **Notes/Resource Links** ||
 * Janet Krompier || Science K-5 || Learning and the Brain || 10 reasons why 21st century learning will succeed: [] 3Rs x 7Cs =21st Century Learning;meaningful feedback. ||
 * Tim Brubaker || 5th Grade || Learning and the Brain ||  ||

@http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/the_trouble_with_bright_kids.html?cm_sp=most_widget-_-default-_-The+Trouble+With+Bright+Kids

Using Humor - shared an activity that had kids telling one another to mime an activity, then change the activity based on guesses. Felt that this activity and using humor in a classroom situation are very beneficial to teaching boys. Also using humor provides a great "brain break"

21st Century Learning for Life - 3Rs X 7Cs = 21st Century. Sailing the 7Cs (1-Critical thinking and problem solving, 2-Creativity and innovation, 3-Communication and media literacy, 4-Collaboration and leadership, 5-Cross-cultural and social fluency, 6-Career, civic and learning self-direction, 7-Computing and digital proficiency) STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) We need to provide immediate feedback to students and then give them time to apply that feedback to their work.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs - What do we cut? What do we keep? What do we create? Webcasts, Skype (especially useful for connecting with other cultures around the world),Twitter [|www.curriculum21.com] Go to Clearinghouse - many, many useful ideas and websites [|www.zooburst.com] Creation of 3D books that are viewed 3D via a webcam. [|www.wix.com] Electronic portfolios Are we preparing our kids for 2011? We should be preparing them for their futures, not now. Our preschoolers will be Class of 2029.

Dr. Carson - Your Creative Brain - we are all creative. Give kids a situation and then ask them to explain what their dentist might say about it. Have them do a crossword puzzle and use two of the words to write a story, then solve a few more words and use those new words

David Sousa - Bloom's taxonomy - could have a difficulty line as well as a complexity line. Rather than making our brighter students do more difficult things, we need to make them do more complex things.

21st Century Learning - technology is really critical to the development of critical thinking and 21st century skills

Howard Gardner - ethical mind. Kids need to address the moral issues of life. Some of our young adults feel that the only way to get ahead in life is to behave unethically since everyone else is behaving unethically, too. If you don't act unethically, you will be left behind.

School wide technology curriculum - each grade level focuses on one tech skill and masters that skill. By the time they get to 5th grade they have mastered numerous skills.

Sherry Terkle - "My Life on the Screen" How technology will help us - written over 25 years ago. Shared some cautions about how technology is being used by our teens (excess number of texts, etc.)

[|www.gapminder.org] Shows the world's most important trends via visual displays (graphs)

Bernie Trilling - What is the world going to be like in 20 years? What are the skills your children need to be successful in that world?

What's most effective in classroom instruction? Integration of Web 2.0 tools and Marzano's Best Practices. Effective Web 2.0 Tools website: www.classroomtechintegration100.wikispaces.com