Welcome to the 21st Century Learning wiki*.

We are a community of educators embarking on a collaborative journey into the future of education, educational technologies and new curriculums in order to prepare our students to function in a competitive and rapidly changing global world.

Dedicated to:

New Content

Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Teaching

The Horizon Report 2009 The New Media Consortium & Educause Learning Initiative

Date	Content	Will remain on _____ page
12/18/08	Pew Report: The Future of the Internet III Summary http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp Full Report http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_FutureInternet3.pdf "A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves."	Mobile/Cell Phone Technology

NEW! Digital Youth Research released

November 22, 2008, "Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

21st Century Skills Map - For English
21st Century Skills Map - For Social Studies

These 21st Century Skills Maps are the result of hundreds of hours of research, development and feedback from educators and business leaders across the nation.
The Partnership [for 21st C. Skills] issues these maps. [www.21stcenturyskills.org].

New Media Consortium (NMC) Keynote Speech - Technology and the Global Commons
A rare and incredible summary of educational shifts leaning towards collaborative learning which will eventually
build towards a Global Commons. (a bit long but worth it)

21st Century Skills (source: The Partnership for 21st Century Skills)

• Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
• Communication & Collaboration
• Creativity & Innovation
• ICT Literacy

Promoting 21st Century Skills (podcast 56 min.) Apple Learning Interchange, Florida Ed. Techn. Conf. Jan. 2007
''Ken Kay is president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, an organization dedicated to promoting a new vision of what students need to be successful in a globally competitive economy. Please visit www.21stcenturyskills.org for more information."

Did You Know video by Carl Fisch (6 minute video)


Today's students are Digital Natives. (7 minute video)

Web 2.0: The Machine is Us(ing Us) (4 minute video)

The Connected Classroom (4 minute video)

When I Grow Up (2 minute video)

Three Steps (3 min. video)

Information R/evolution (5.5 min. video)

A Vision of Students Today (5 min. video)

Life long abilities, behaviors and attitudes
This is a great blog post which outlines many different lists of abilities, qualities and skills necessary for the future of learning and working.

Hand It In
article excerpt:

"As educators we are facing the increasingly complex reality of a world where knowledge is abundant, where collaboration is the norm, and where students can begin to build networks and communities far beyond our classroom walls. Yet, our teaching and learning spaces are still defined by the traditional ideas that knowledge is scarce and that learning is situated by time and place. That traditional classroom concept must change if we want to remain relevant to our students lives and prepare them for their futures."

* What is a wiki? A wiki is a website that anyone can contribute to. Instead of having a webmaster submit all the content, anyone authorized may post content. It is meant to be a collective, collaborative, changing, reflection of our knowledge.

Definitions of wiki on the Web:

• A website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.
  www.parliament.vic.gov.au/sarc/E-Democracy/Final_Report/Glossary.htm
• A collection of websites of hypertext, each of them can be visited and edited by anyone. “Wiki wiki” means "rapidly" in the Hawaiian language.
  www.cpsr-peru.org/english_version/privacy_ngo/part4

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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

Excerpts:

• Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
• It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.
• The single biggest problem facing education today is that our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License * SEE our companion wiki: Curriculum Resources for Teachers.

This wiki was conceived by Vicki Butler, started by Kathleen Johnson and hopefully will be continued by "You" (yes, that you, the Time Person of the Year 2006) This wiki replaces PowerPoint as a presentation structure for a workshop Kathy and Vicki gave at PNAIS October 12, 2007, in Portland Oregon. kjohnson@seattleacademy.org vbutler@seattleacademy.org Seattle Academy (see blog review by David Warlick) Pacific Northwest Association for Independent Schools

** Other examples of education wikis


Optional music player:
Below is an embedded playlist from Imeem. You can choose songs from this list to play while you surfing or creating on this 21st Century Learning wiki.
You can disable the songs you don't want to hear by clicking the left hand circle next to the title of the piece. The music will stop if you navigate away from this page so right click on new pages and "Open Link in New Window" to keep the music flowing.