This document discusses education reform and 21st century skills. It references several reports and studies from education organizations, policymakers, the business sector, and progressive educators published between 1991 and 2012. It discusses how meaningful assignments focus on relevant content, require effort and thought, and provide students an audience. Questions are provided to help design assignments that have students go beyond just summarizing information and make connections to their own lives. The document advocates collaboratively designing rigorous learning experiences to help students build knowledge and skills.
Presentation by Jennifer D. Klein at GlobalEdCon2011. Explores some of the best ideas out there about why and how to globalize the curriculum, looking at a variety of excellent examples of global projects across the K-12 curriculum.
This presentation gives a small taste of the material offered by Jennifer through her TIGed Professional Development e-Courses, as well as through live in-service presentations and teacher coaching in schools.
This presentation was delivered as part of TeachMeet Leicester: Digital Literacy #TMDL14, held at Crown Hills Community College on 18th March 2014.
For our round of the event, see: http://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk/2014/03/20/tmdl14
This presentation by Jennifer D. Klein explores the importance of global education and educational strategies and pedagogy for transformative student experiences. Presented as part of the LearnCentral webinar series on August 31, 2011. See more about Jennifer's work at www.principledlearning.org.
Keynote presentation - with a challenge - for the Upper Hutt Cluster of schools - 31 January, 2020. How can we work to ensure our school programme for 2020 is truly 'future focused'?
The Massachusetts Parent Involvement Project established 60 coalitions across the state to provide activities and instruction on how to support children's learning in the home and at community sites.
Presentation by Jennifer D. Klein at GlobalEdCon2011. Explores some of the best ideas out there about why and how to globalize the curriculum, looking at a variety of excellent examples of global projects across the K-12 curriculum.
This presentation gives a small taste of the material offered by Jennifer through her TIGed Professional Development e-Courses, as well as through live in-service presentations and teacher coaching in schools.
This presentation was delivered as part of TeachMeet Leicester: Digital Literacy #TMDL14, held at Crown Hills Community College on 18th March 2014.
For our round of the event, see: http://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk/2014/03/20/tmdl14
This presentation by Jennifer D. Klein explores the importance of global education and educational strategies and pedagogy for transformative student experiences. Presented as part of the LearnCentral webinar series on August 31, 2011. See more about Jennifer's work at www.principledlearning.org.
Keynote presentation - with a challenge - for the Upper Hutt Cluster of schools - 31 January, 2020. How can we work to ensure our school programme for 2020 is truly 'future focused'?
The Massachusetts Parent Involvement Project established 60 coalitions across the state to provide activities and instruction on how to support children's learning in the home and at community sites.
What's a Library to Do? Transforming the One-Shot Library Workshop for the Ne...Jerilyn Veldof
Cornell University Library invited me to do a workshop for them on <a href="http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jveldof/WorkshopDesign/">creating one-shot library workshops</a>. These are the remarks I made in another session for their Library Assembly prior to the workshop.
Caine is a 9-year-old boy whose afterschool and weekend project ChereCoble417
Caine is a 9-year-old boy whose afterschool and weekend project turned into an international imagination movement. As the
Caine’s Arcade
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video explains, Caine built a gaming arcade almost entirely out of cardboard and opened it up for business in the storefront of his father’s auto parts store. This story provides an excellent example of how characteristics of Caine’s personal identity might affect how and what he learned from the specific experiences portrayed. The video story identifies the cultural values that nurtured Caine’s curiosity and inventiveness, and you can readily analyze the factors contributing to his “funds of knowledge” going into the project. After viewing Caine’s amazing story, reflect on the different skills he learned and applied as he completed his “project,” and consider how his personal identity shaped, and was shaped by, his amazing experiences. To help you better understand the underlying influences affecting Caine’s learning experiences, read Chapter 7 of your primary text.
This chapter presents information and examples associated with how social class can have an influence on student achievement and behavior in school. You also need to read the article by Moll, Amanti, Neff, and Gonzales (1992) regarding
Funds of KnowledgeLinks to an external site.
about how family and cultural backgrounds impact students and their families.
Initial Post:
View the
Caine’s Arcade
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video and construct an initial discussion post that addresses the following questions:
What external factors influenced Caine’s ability to successfully create his arcade (e.g., what role did his father play in encouraging his project?)?
What internal factors influenced Caine’s ability to successfully create his arcade? Consider his world view, values, and funds of knowledge as internal factors.
How valuable do you think these skills are in the real world? How well do they align with one or more of the 21st-century skills identified on the
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web page?
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Instructor Guidance
· Week 1
· Week Overview
· This is a dynamic and important course comprising part of your journey through an education graduate program. It is important because it is designed to connect you to the most important source of understanding, guidance, improvement and challenge in the field of education: you. Regardless of how many years you have studied or practiced in the field of education, you are already an expert in how YOU learn. You possess a lifetime of case studies that illustrate clearly specific strategies to help you learn things well, and strategies that may not work for you. You discern for yourself what is relevant, what makes sense, what kind of feedback helps you the most, and what motivates you to learn things that are rather difficult.
This is the most crucial thing to consider at all times in this co ...
Designing Blended Learning Experiences - HandoutBrent Jones
This workshop will walk participants through the course design and development process, with an emphasis on blended-learning curriculum for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. Highlighting the work of L. Dee Fink (2003) in the area of Significant Learning
Experiences, we will explore the different types of learning in Fink’s Taxonomy (foundational
knowledge, application, integration, human dimension, caring and learning how to learn) while familiarising ourselves with his course design framework. Participants will be challenged to consider how each phase of this framework can inform and influence their own course design decisions, specifically the creation, adoption or adaptation of materials and methods to promote the
acquisition of a new language as well as broader 21st century skills. Using examples of courses recently developed for a content-based English language program for university students in Japan, the presenter will discuss how Fink’s concepts of backward design (what’s important now and years after the course, and what should students do in the course to succeed?) and forward assessment
(imagining students in a situation where they would use the knowledge/skills, and focusing the learning on realistic meaningful tasks) have helped in both revamping existing courses and developing new ones. Participants will go away with several job aids to assist them in their own
curriculum, course and lesson planning endeavours.
Week 6 Discussion 2 Los PenProfile the kind of empirical evidenc.docxhelzerpatrina
Week 6 Discussion 2 Los Pen
Profile the kind of empirical evidence at Los Pen that supports the school’s transformation. Focus on quantitative data. Based on the statistical data gleaned from the readings what qualitative conclusions would you draw about the efficacy of the many aspects of differentiated parent support?
INSTRUCTOR GUIDANCE
WEEK FIVE
*Special thanks to Dr. Patrice Jones for sharing her original guidance in this document.
In Week Five, you read about the link between Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and parental involvement. When students do not have their basic needs met or do not feel safe in school, they are not fully prepared for academic instruction. “It is imperative that we proactively create a climate that will support all students learning” (Hjalmarson, 2011, p.135). Partnerships are all about connection. In this final week of the class, we will end our discussion about the need to develop partnerships among schools, families, and communities to support student success.
Parents are the glue that helps to bring students and schools together. For schools, it is important to gain parent support and involvement in assisting students in their educational growth. Schools must develop strategies to offer parents in establishing better support for students in their educational journey; however, in order for schools to help parents, there must be a plan in place. We learned at the start of this course that there are a variety of ways in which parents can be supportive of students in school. Far gone are the days when the only way that parents could show support was to help with homework. Although helping with homework is still vital, it is only a small example of the many strategies that parents can use to support the education of their children.
Think about the classroom today, beyond fundraisers and PTA meetings. What are some of ways in which your child's school has asked for your support or you have asked parents for support? How does this extend to using technology as a means of academic support? Consider the technology you use to communicate with your child’s teachers or with the parents of your students. Research shows a strong correlation between the achievement gap and home Internet accessibility (Empowering Parents, 2010). “If, as President Obama emphasizes, parents have a responsibility to be actively involved in their children’s education, they will need the technology tools and skills to do so effectively” (The Children’s Partnership, 2010, p. 7). Having regular communication with schools through email, blogs, and social media helps parents receive updates to their child’s performance and plan for what additional supports they might need for areas of need.
We have learned throughout the previous weeks of this course that classrooms throughout the U.S. have become increasingly diverse. Hjalmarson writes that, “when people are born into families with limited parenting skills, without some intervention or tr ...
This presentation discusses the future of Colorado, including changes in population and how to meet the needs of all students in education. (there may be errors because it was a Keynote converted to PowerPoint)
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
6. Jenkins, Clinton, Purushotma, Robison, & Weigel. (2009). Confronting the challenges of
a participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century.
What % of your list is made up
of the skills below?
7. Education reform
– Policy makers
U.S. Department of Education, 2009; Transforming
American Education, 2010; National Governors
Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief
State School Officers, 2012
– Public
“Waiting for Superman,” “Education reform” sections in
Huffington Post & Wikipedia, mainstream press and
opinion & editorials
8. Education reform cont…
Business sector
Jennings, 2012; Partnership for 21st
Century Skills [P21],
2008; National Research Council, 2012, p. Sum: 1;
Department of Labor, 1991
Progressive educators & related education
associations and organizations
Brown & Thomas, 2010; Commission on Accreditation,
2010; Gee & Hayes, 2011; Ito et al., 2010; Jenkins,
Clinton, Purushotma, Robison, & Weigel, 2006;
MacArthur Foundation, 2009; Partnership for 21st
Century
Skills, 2008; Rheingold, 2008; Robinson, 2006; Tapscott,
2009
9. American Association of School Librarians, 2007; International Society of
Technology in Education, 2007; National Association of Independent Schools,
2010; National Research Council, 2012; Partnership for 21st
Century Skills, 2008
21st
century skills
What % of your list is
comprised of 21st
century
skills?
15. What makes up a
meaningful assignment?
Go to: www.socrative.com and login as student
with this room number: 891478
I will use short answer to display your responses
16. Meaningful assignments
shift the mindset from teaching to learning.
(How will the student best learn this
knowledge and practice these skills for
transfer?)
articulate content-area knowledge the student
should build.
focus on the content not the container.
17. Meaningful assignments
cont...
move students beyond knowledge and
comprehension by:
making the content relevant to students’
lives,
requiring vigorous effort and rigorous
thought, and/or
providing an audience for their results.
allow for students to practice “traditional” skills.
allows for students to practice “21st
century”
skills.
18. With apologies to “Young Frankenstein.” 20th
Century Fox, 1974.
DO
BarbaraA. Jansen
19. Questions to ask: Going beyond
information found in sources
1. Is the purpose of the activity to provide
initial background information for the topic or
are you wanting to have the students make
connections among topics they have already
studied or something that is important to them
in their lives today?
2. I wonder if the kids can just cut and paste
information they find in the sources?
How do you want the students to go beyond the info
20. 3. Who is the students’ audience?
4. What is the best way for students to
show the results to, or reach, the audience?
5. Do we want to ensure that
all students benefit by all of the research and
results and are responsible for learning about
all topics in addition to the one they
researched?
Questions to ask: Going beyond
information found in sources cont…
29. “How do we ensure that
every child has access to
the skills and experiences
needed to become a full
participant in the social,
cultural, economic, and
political future of our
society?”
(Jenkins, Clinton, Purushotma, Robison, & Weigel, 2006, p. 56).
Self assessment
30. My involvement
Plan with teacher(s)
Create student planning and pre-production
materials
Assemble assignment wiki
Decide on sources (with teacher input)
Teach skills at point of need
Assess note cards and citations (OMG!), and
presentation skills as appropriate
31. Lead with conversations
What questions will you need to ask yourself?
What questions will you need to ask your
teaching partner?
Group collaboration: Develop questions for
which you can raise the bar in designing learning
experiences that will help students build
knowledge, require rigor of thought, and develop
essential skills.
http://bit.ly/11aBGtX
32. Learning design
Group collaboration: Choose a topic or set of
curriculum objectives that you want to develop
into a rigorous and meaningful learning
experience for students. Use your questions to
guide the design of a dynamic experience for
students.
http://bit.ly/ZciQET
33. Group collaboration
Lead with
conversations
What questions will you need to ask
yourself? What questions will you need
to ask your teaching partner?
Group collaboration: Develop
questions for which you can raise the
bar in designing learning experiences
that will help students build knowledge,
require rigor of thought, and develop
essential skills.
http://bit.ly/11aBGtX
Learning design
Group collaboration: Choose a topic or
set of curriculum objectives that you
want to develop into a rigorous and
meaningful learning experience for
students. Use your questions to guide
the design of a dynamic experience for
students.
http://bit.ly/ZciQET
Traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis are privileged in schools.
A call to reform by Policy makers is evidenced in the alternative for states to opt out of the “No Child Left Behind” legislative mandate through the “Race to the Top” initiative and grants, the National Education Technology Plan, and the 45 states that adopted the Common Core Standards, Texas not among them. The Public ’s call is illustrated by the mainstream documentary “Waiting for Superman,” the sections on “Education Reform” in Huffington Post and Wikipedia , and numerous reports and opinions in the mainstream press.
The business sector, with the exception of the Texas Association of Business , calls for a different set of skills than is currently privileged in traditional curricula. Such as a people who could think, synthesize ideas, communicate, place things in context, and understand the relationships among ideas ” Progressive educators advocate for a “learning reform” strongly facilitated by digital media and the skills and competencies young people enjoy through their affiliations using online social networks and other participatory media in an informal setting. Many educators and education organizations are borrowing ideas for school reform from this out-of-school learning system and integrating new media tools and resources in the curriculum into innovative ways. In my own experiences of collaborating with teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools, many teachers are embracing the affordances of new media, using these tools to motivate and engage their students.
Add what the public, business, and gov ’t sectors want. I reviewed the works of major associations and organizations that based their 21 st century skills categories on research. I extracted the skills and competencies and made a word cloud that shows by size the frequency of skills listed. As evidenced here, the scope of 21 st century skills encompasses competencies in many areas. By developing assignments that require students to systematically practicing skills to master these competencies, students can demonstrate higher cognitive achievement. What % of your list is comprised of 21 st century skills?
Collaborate with teachers to plan meaningful assignments Identify content, skills, and tools needed for specific project Integrate new media tools, resources and skills meaningfully and deliberately into the project
Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal