Shane Sturgeon discusses key 21st century skills including creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy. He then provides summaries of different digital tools that can be used to support these skills, including web browsers, wikis, blogs, Google Docs, Google Slides, Padlet, and Kahoot. These tools allow for content creation, sharing, and interactive learning online.

1. Shane Sturgeon
Technology Mentor, School
District 02

2. • Creativity and innovation
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Agility, adaptability and capacity for lifelong learning
• Teamwork and collaboration in virtual teams
• Initiative, self direction and entrepreneurialism
• Effective oral and written communication
• Proficiency in the mother tongue
• Multiple languages and cultural awareness
• Digital competence: the ability to effectively access
and analyse information, including digital information

3. • Users can only view
webpages or retrieve
information
• Users cannot reflect on
the content of the
webpages
• Web 1.0 webpage’s
information is closed to
external editing
• Made up mainly of text
and images

4. • Provides the user with
more interactivity and
storage facilities
• Offers all users the
same freedom to
contribute
• Rich in user
participation &
dynamic content

5. • Accessibility from any
computer with web
access (regardless of
platform)
• Can usually share or
store online
• Personalized
• No installation
required

6. • Created to help
struggling readers
process overwhelming
amounts of
information
• Frequency of each
word is calculated
• Most important
sentence are collected
based on word
frequency count

7. • creates
interactive, on-the-
fly, multimedia
presentations of
information.
• Reads automatically
selected information
from various websites
• Automatically grabs
photos and associated
pictures on the
subject.

8. • Creates word clouds
• Can be created from a
generated list or a
web address
• Chooses words based
on frequency
• Layouts, font, and
color schemes are
customizable

9. • An online
diagramming service
that helps users
communicate with a
combination of
shapes, text, and lines
• Create, share, and
collaborate on a wide
range of diagrams

10. • Free office suite
• Easily share access
and edit rights
• Comment or chat in
real time
• View real time edits
• Edits made by
multiple people
simultaneously

11. • Stores notes online
• Create binders by
subject
• Create “tabs” in each
binder

12. • Social learning
network for
teachers, students, an
d parents
• Communicate and
notify
• Post/Annotate
assignments
• Create groups
• Calendar items
• Quizzes

13. • Graphical blog (glog)
• Interactive posters
• Audio, video, text, ima
ges, etc.
• Provides a dynamic
and interactive
teaching experience
• Create classes

14. • High quality information
is shared with you
• You decide what info
you publish on your site
• Share you page easily
• http://www.scoop.it/

15. • Social bookmarking
• Collect, share and
organise
bookmarks, highlights,
annotations
• Group based research
• Sticky notes

16. • Student response
system
• Quizzes
• Exit tickets
• Short answer, multiple
choice, true/false
• Works on mobile
devices

17. • Interactive timelines
• Visually engaging
timelines
• Integrate
video, audio, images, t
ext, links, social
media, location and
timestamps

18. • Record your screen
• Narrate
• Create tutorials
• Store it and share it