Learning for the 21st century: Teachers Need Special Attention
Social media in the classroom: Why and how to use it
1. Social media in the classroom
: Why and how to use it
Anucha Somabut
Educational Technology Programs
Khon Kaen University
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3. Whether you like it or not, social
media is here to stay. But, what about
social media in the classroom?
4. Today’s education faces
irrelevance unless we
bridge the gap between
how students live and
how students learn.
Why are 21st century skills important?
5. Why are 21st century skills important?
workforce
“The average person will change jobs
nine times by the time he or she is 32.”
Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
6. Why are 21st century skills important?
Relationship to no child left behind
Emphasizes student achievement and requires
assessments in core subjects.
Skills are to be integrated in core subjects
Requires that every student be technologically
literate by 8th grade
States, schools and districts can incorporate a
broad vision of 21st century skills into their NCLB
framework
9. What are 21st century skills?
Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
Global Awareness
Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
Environmental Literacy
Mastery of core subjects and 21st century themes is essential to
student success. Core subjects include English, reading or language
arts, world languages, arts, mathematics, economics, science,
geography, history, government and civics.
In addition, schools must promote an understanding of academic
content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century
interdisciplinary themes into core subjects:
10. What are 21st century skills?
Learning and Innovation Skills
Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Communication and Collaboration
Learning and innovation skills are what separate students who are
prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in
today’s world and those who are not. They include:
11. What are 21st century skills?
Information, Media and Technology Skills
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT (Information, Communications and Technology)
Literacy
Today, we live in a technology and media-driven environment, marked
by access to an abundance of information, rapid changes in technology
tools and the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions
on an unprecedented scale. Effective citizens and workers must be
able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills, such as:
12. What are 21st century skills?
Life and Career Skills
Flexibility and Adaptability
Initiative and Self-Direction
Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
Productivity and Accountability
Leadership and Responsibility
Today’s life and work environments require far more than thinking
skills and content knowledge. The ability to navigate the complex life
and work environments in the globally competitive information age
requires students to pay rigorous attention to developing adequate life
and career skills, such as:
18. The following principles illustrate how
knowledge construction can be facilitated:
Provide multiple representations of reality;
Represent the natural complexity of the real world;
Focus on knowledge construction, not reproduction;
Present authentic tasks (contextualizing rather than
abstracting instruction);
Provide real-world, case-based learning environments,
rather than pre-determined instructional sequences;
Foster reflective practice;
Enable context-and content dependent knowledge
construction;
Support collaborative construction of knowledge through
social negotiation.
Jonassen (1994)
19. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning
1. Instruction should be student-
centered
2. Education should be
collaborative
3. Learning should have context
4. Schools should be integrated
with society
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/4-essential-rules-of-21st-century-learning/
20. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning
1. Instruction should be student-
centered
2. Education should be
collaborative
3. Learning should have context
4. Schools should be integrated
with society
21. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning
2. Education should be
collaborative
2. Education should be
collaborative
3. Learning should have context
4. Schools should be integrated
with society
Collaborativelearning
22. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning
3. Learning should have context
2. Education should be
collaborative
3. Learning should have context
4. Schools should be integrated
with society
23. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning
4. Schools should be integrated
with society
2. Education should be
collaborative
3. Learning should have context
4. Schools should be integrated
with society
24. 7 Ways Teachers Use Social Media in
the Classroom
Encourage students
to share work
socially
Use a hashtag to
facilitate guest
speaker discussions
Require students to
keep a blog
Require original
expert sources
Use Google
Hangouts
Create a social
classroom on
Edmodo
Hold a class
in Second Life
http://mashable.com/2013/08/18/social-media-teachers/