3. Today’s Schedule
8:30-9:15 – Breakfast, Conversation, and
Housekeeping
9:15-9:30 – Samples of Critical Thinking
and Problem Solving & Creativity and
Innovation
9:30-11:45 – Communication, Collaboration
11:45-12:45 – Working lunch
12:45-2:30 – Information Literacy
2:30-3:00 – Summary: OH, AHA!, OMG!
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4. Partnership
for 21st Century Skills:
Review of What You
Should Know About:
Creativity &
Innovation,
Critical Thinking &
Problem Solving
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5. What We’re “Learning”
Interdisciplinary Themes
Global Awareness
Financial, Economic, Business and
Entrepreneurial Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
Environmental Literacy
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18. Definition
collaboration (kəˌlæbəˌreʃən)
ɪ
—n (often followed by on, with, etc)
1. the act of working with another or others on a joint project
2. something created by working jointly with another or others
3. the act of cooperating as a traitor, especially with an enemy
occupying one's own country
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
21. Collaborative
Language Learning
• Collaborative Language Learning tends to be more
student centered – the teacher as the facilitator
• Cooperative Learning implies a classroom that
focuses on students working together to reach a
common goal rather than engaging in a competition
• Benefits of collaboration:
– a) stretches limited resources
– b) requires leadership – builds social skills
– c) ??
22. Collaborative
Language Learning
• Objective: foster students’ critical thinking skills in a
non-competitive collaborative classroom
environment
• Tools: Social Networking, blogging, discussion,
projects problem sets, and ?
• Tasks: Group projects, group work, mini-dialogs,
skits, student teaching, and ?
• Success depends on organization of activity:
warm-up, accountability, instructions, social skills,
structure, follow-up
• Mutual support within the group – positive
interdependence not codependence
• Similar to improv theater/drama pedagogy:
a) Make your partner look good
b) anything goes: no criticism
29. What is Information Literacy?
• Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find,
retrieve, analyze, and use information. Information literacy
equips [students] with the critical skills necessary to become
independent lifelong learners. –Association of College and
Research Libraries
• Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when
there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate,
evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or
problem at hand. Simply put, information literacy is the key
competency needed to enhance K-16 academic
performance, engage patient personal responsibility, improve
workplace performance and productivity, and compete
effectively in a dynamically evolving world marketplace. --
National Forum on Information Literacy
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