MICDS Upper School Curriculum and Technology Understanding the Possibilities

"If we teach today like we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” -John Dewey, Educator and Philosopher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_WhSdsgBo

"If we teach today like we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”

-John Dewey, Educator and Philosopher

Visual/Media Literacy Information Literacy Global/Cultural Awareness Digital Citizenship Network Literacy Basic Literacy Self-Directed, Adaptable, Flexible Learners Emerging Literacies

Visual/Media Literacy

Information Literacy

Global/Cultural Awareness

Digital Citizenship

Network Literacy

Basic Literacy

Self-Directed, Adaptable, Flexible Learners

Information Explosion Participatory Culture Social Networking Shift from Consuming Knowledge to Evaluating, Constructing, and Creating Knowledge FlatWorld Ideology UCaPP World ( ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate Cultural Drivers

Information Explosion

Participatory Culture

Social Networking

Shift from Consuming Knowledge to Evaluating, Constructing, and Creating Knowledge

FlatWorld Ideology

UCaPP World ( ubiquitously

connected and pervasively proximate

Intentional Curriculum is the Driver Appreciation and Understanding of 21 st Century Skills Opportunities and Possibilities Responsive Proactive MICDS Approach

Intentional

Curriculum is the Driver

Appreciation and Understanding of 21 st Century Skills

Opportunities and Possibilities

Responsive

Proactive

Student PLE Personal Learning Environment Lenovo X61 Tablet DyKnow

Instructional Tech and Media Specialist/ Librarian Collaboration

Supporting a 21 st Century Curriculum

Antigone Graphic Novels Frederick Douglass Speaker Series Sudan Elective Ning Reformers Role Play Hamlet Videos Flat Classroom