This document summarizes a presentation by Dr. Catherine Hart on preparing students for the 21st century. Some key challenges discussed include dichotomous thinking, rhetoric over substance, and ambiguity. The presentation advocates focusing on metacognition, using technology as a transformative tool, and recognizing that not all class time is equal. It emphasizes the importance of pedagogy and suggests starting small when implementing new strategies, such as focusing on metacognition, high-tech/low-tech activities, and thinking frames.

1. Teaching for learning in the 21st Century:
Beyond the rhetoric
St Francis Xavier College
August 19, 2013
Dr Catherine Hart
Twitter @CatherineRHart

2. 1 x husband
2 x kids
3 x degrees
3 x university jobs
4 x school jobs
5 x chickens (still alive)
10 x houses (8 rental)
17 x yrs teaching
Preparing kids for our past or their future?What’s in your virtual school bag?
Time-poor
Work harder not smarter

5. http://vimeo.com/32674575 Accessed August 16, 2013

7. Sceptical?

8. Challenge 1: Dichotomous thinking
• Evolution versus Revolution
• Success versus Failure
• Instead-of versus Add-on

9. I don't mind failure. I've always thought that
schoolchildren should be marked by the number of
failures they've had.
I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got
it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from
each one. That's how I came up with a solution.

10. Challenge 2: Rhetoric

13. Info-whelm?

14. Stuff it, I’ll just
Google it…
ringh TMMelb presentation on concept based teaching see – tiny.cc/conceptbased

15. Challenge 3: Typologies

17. Productive pedagogies
POLT
Thinking Routines
e5 Instructional Model
21st Century Fluencies
Thinkers Keys
DEEP THINKING

19. Challenge 4: Ambiguity

21. Sir Ken Ronbinson “How to change education from the ground up” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEsZOnyQzxQ Accessed Aug 16, 2013

22. Slide via Martin Westwell
http://prezi.com/0cmom550bljt/educational-neuroscience-and-the-ac/

23. Anything that you expected
to see missing from that list?

24. THINKING
Fluency – Understanding – Problem Solving - Reasoning

27. Surface versus deep learning – importance of context

28. http://www.aitsl.edu.au/learning-frontiers.html
Accessed Aug 16, 2013

29. Metacognitive
skills
Awareness of knowledge—
understanding what one knows,
what one does not know, and what
one wants to know
Awareness of thinking—
understanding cognitive tasks and
the nature of what is required to
complete them
Awareness of thinking strategies—
understanding approaches to
directing learning

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31. Using your non-dominant hand, write
down the number shown.
You have 20 seconds to do this

32. Try again and this time use your dominant hand ...
and think of three things:
Federation - 1901 Hours-days-weeks Emergency - 000
Concept for this task borrowed from Glenn Wiebe http://historytech.wordpress.com/

33. Thinking frames/scaffolds – what do you use?Takeaway No. 1: METACOGNITION key
driver in curricular practice

37. Takeaway No. 2: Not all class time is
created equal

39. http://www.aitsl.edu.au/learning-frontiers.html
Accessed Aug 16, 2013

41. Takeaway No. 3: Pedagogy is key

42. High Tech Low Tech No Tech

43. http://susanoxnevad.blogspot.com.au/p/digital-differentiation_21.html
Accessed Aug 16, 2013

44. Churches, A
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+and+ICT+tools
Accessed Aug 16, 2013

45. Takeaway No. 4: Power of technology as a
transformative tool

46. Slide from Ilja VanWeringh HTAV presentation on tech and history teaching Techtipteacher.wordpress.com

48. http://www.teachthought.com/learning/inside-out-school-21st-century-learning-model/
Accessed Aug 16, 2013

49. Where Do I Begin?
Start small – but start!
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50. Challenges
Takeaways
Outcomes?
1 thing that was interesting
1 thing you disagree with
1 question this session generated
1 thing you will try