This document provides 21 tips for teachers to create a 21st century classroom using technology and Web 2.0 tools. It emphasizes developing students' literacy in finding, validating, synthesizing, leveraging and communicating information through collaboration. Tips include using tools like Delicious, Gmail, Google Docs, Jing, online learning environments, and Web 2.0 applications for creativity, productivity and bringing the global community into the classroom. The overall goal is to transform the traditional classroom into a digital, collaborative learning environment that prepares students for 21st century skills.

1. If kids come to us from strong, healthy
functioning families, it makes our job
easier.
If they do not come to us from strong,
healthy, functioning families, it makes
our job more important.
-Barbara Colorose

2. Teachers affect eternity; no one can
tell where their influence stops.
-Henry Brooks Adams

3. Teaching is not a lost art, but the
regard for it is a lost tradition.
—Jacques Barzun

4. The man (or woman) who can make
hard things easy is the educator.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. Students don’t care how much you know
until they know how much you care.
-Anonymous

6. Children are like wet cement;
whatever falls on them makes an
impression.
- Haim Ginott

7. The test of a good teacher is not how
many questions he can ask his pupils
that they will answer readily, but how
many questions he inspires them to
ask him which he finds hard to
answer.
-Alice Wellington Rollins

8. Teaching kids to count is fine, but
teaching them what counts is best.
-Bob Talbert

9. Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child.
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS.
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.”
-Shel Silverstein

10. The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-William A. Ward

11. Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

12. Teaching is the one profession that
creates all other professions.
-Unknown

13. It is the supreme art of the teacher to
awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

14. A child cannot be taught by anyone
who despises him, and a child cannot
afford to be fooled.
-James Baldwin

15. Education is not to reform students or
amuse them or to make them expert
technicians. It is to unsettle their
minds, widen their horizons, inflame
their intellects, teach them to think
straight, if possible.
—Robert M. Hutchins

16. If a child can’t learn the way we
teach, maybe we should teach the
way they learn.
-Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada

17. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act, but a
habit.
- Aristotle

18. As a general rule, teachers teach
more by what they are than by what
they say.
-Unknown

19. Never do anything for a student that
he is capable of doing for himself. If
you do you, you’ll make him an
educational cripple…a pedagogical
paraplegic.
-Howard Hendric

20. If we teach today’s students as we
taught yesterday’s, we rob them of
tomorrow.
-John Dewey
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Blast off with 21 tips for creating
a 21st Century Classroom
With a little technology and a lot of Web 2.0!
Ann Witherspoon
Midlothian ISD

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What is 21st Century Learning?
Do you have a clear understanding what is meant
by 21st Century learning?
A.Yes
B.No

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The 21st Century Skills
Skills and knowledge students should master to
succeed in work and life in the 21st Century.
From Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Standards and
Assessments
21st Century standards,
along with a balanced
system of assessments that
measure 21st Century skills
is crucial.
Professional Development
Teachers should be
provided with effective 21st
Century skills training and
support for integrating these
skills in the classroom.
Curriculum and Instruction
Instructional materials and
practice should support
student mastery of 21st
Century skills.
Learning Environments
Where students learn affects
what they learn-today’s
learning environment must
support 21st Century skills.
Core Subjects and 21st
Century Themes
Core subjects should be
taught in the context of
themes like global
awareness and civic
literacy.
Life and Career Skills
These skills describe the
ability to be flexible,
adaptable, self-directed,
socially aware, accountable,
and responsible.
Learning and Innovation Skills
These important skills include
Creativity & Innovation, Critical
Thinking & Problem Solving,
and Communication &
Collaboration.
Information, Media, and
Technology Skills
These skills include
Information Literacy, Media
Literacy, and Information
Communication &
Technology (ITC) Literacy.
Support systems necessary to ensure
student mastery of 21st Century Skills

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21st Century Principles
Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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21st Century Environment
Enables students to learn in a relevant,
real-world 21st Century learning
environment that provides:
connectivity
access
community
Relationship
Supports a professional learning community

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21st Century Learning

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Tip #1
21st Century Set of Literacies
Students will be able to:
 Find information
 Validate it
 Synthesize it
 Leverage it
 Communicate it
 Collaborate with it
 Problem solve with it

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The Traditional Classroom

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The 21st Century Classroom
Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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Tip #3 Professional
Learning Communities
collaborate
share
best
practices
www.webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com
www.classroom20.com
www.go2web20.net
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aboutaasl/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm

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Tip #4
A little equipment

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Tip #5-Get a Delicious account
Tip #6-Get a class Gmail account
Tip #7-Access Google Docs
Tip #8-Create an online learning environment
(class website)
Tip #9-Get Jing
Tip #10-Everything Google
A Little Productivity with Web 2.0…

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Tip #11-Glogster’s #1
Tip #12-Scrapblog
Tip #13-Toondoo
Tip #14-Voki
Tip #15-Oddcast
Tip #16-Gliffy
Tip #17-Art.com
A Little Creativity with Web 2.0…

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Tip #18-Cell Phones
Tip #19-Google Earth
Tip #20-ePals
Tip #21-Skype
Bring the community and the world in

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Putting it all together…
Welcome to the world of the digital learner
Which of the following did you find you are most
eager to explore?
A. Developing a Personal Learning Network
B. Utilizing more productivity options such as Delicious,
Gmail, Online Learning Community
C.Integrating Web 2.0 applications into your curriculum
D.Bringing the world into the classroom
E. None, I like my 100 year old classroom!