Project Based Learning (PBL) prepares students for academic, personal, and career success, and readies young people to rise to the challenges of their lives and the world they will inherit.

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By “remix” we mean the practice of taking cultural artefacts and combining and manipulating them into a new kind of creative blend.

Creativity is a remix

The ideas and concepts in all of this work does overlap sometimes…and students and teachers should feel empowered to move in, out, and between all of the concepts. Working online is a fluid experience which calls for flexible learners.

Are the skills we’re teaching young New Zealanders the skills that the 21st century needs?

By simultaneously integrating knowledge of technology, pedagogy and content, expert teachers bring TPACK into play any time they teach

Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond

Student engage in online content construction by synthesizing what they have learned and selecting the best digital text or tool before sharing this answer.

identify an area of interest and co-construct a driving question to guide inquiry

these skills are central to education at all levels

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, online reading may require even greater amounts of higher-level thinking than offline reading. In a context in which anyone may publish anything, higher-level thinking skills such as critical evaluation of source material become especially important online.

However, this does not nec-essarily mean they are skilled in the effective use of online information, perhaps the most important aspect of the Internet.

Some believe there is little to teach; our students are already “digital natives,” skilled in online literacies

Proficiency in these continuously new, online literacies will define our students’ success in both school and life.

Designers and theater students aren’t just learning basic principles of acting and directing; they’re also learning how to use technology to enhance their visions.

building something useful

reminder to teachers about the expectation for each of us to achieve what we cannot achieve without new technology.

Starting with a good toolkit is essential for designing learning experiences that reach the Modification and Transformation level of the SAMAR model.

Teachers in the substitution and augmentation phase can use technology to accomplish traditional tasks,  but the real learning gains result from engaging students in learning experiences that could not be accomplished without technology. At the Modification and Redefinition level, the task changes and extends the walls of the classroom.

John Seely Brown

The culture clash between formal education and interest-driven, out-of-school learning is escalating in today’s world where social communication and interactive content is always at our fingertips. We need to harness these new technologies for learning rather than distraction.

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Web Literacy Map Version 1.5: Read, Write, and Participate for a Better Web

To this end, mobile apps and Web 2.0 tools can facilitate implementation of activities requiring students to use skills at the top three levels of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy--analyzing, evaluating, and creating.

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Use an array of features such as drawings, notes, free text, images, sound recordings, and so much more.

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Stage 1 focuses on “transfer of learning.” Essential companion questions are used to engage learners in thoughtful “meaning making” to help them develop and deepen their understanding of important ideas and processes that support such transfer.

The UbD framework helps focus curriculum and teaching on the develop-ment and deepening of student understanding and transfer of learning (i.e., the ability to effectively use content knowledge and skill)

Is anything important slip-ping through the cracks because it is not being assessed?

alignment

Doing so invariably sharpens and focuses teaching.

but to be able to use one’s learning in other settings.

but to be able to use one’s learning in other settings.

clarity about priorities.

without offering a rigid process or prescriptive recipe

these digital-age skills help us live and work in today’s world.

They can evaluate web content, and identify what is useful and trustworthy.

did the students learn and understand the desired knowledge

It means opening dialogue about why we write in public, to what end, and for whose benefit.

Teaching digital literacy does not mean teaching digital skills in a vacuum, but doing so in an authentic context that makes sense to students.