21st Century Topics & Articles

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21st Century Topics & Articles

Table of Contents

Preparing Kids for a Connected World

Social & Emotional Intelligence Engaging Students Critical Thinking Skills - Questioning Techniques

Challenge Based Learning - Teacher Guide

Framing Projects with a Challenge | Crafting a Challenge

Teachers as Learning Designers: Design Thinking

The Culture of Overachievement | Overscheduled Kids

The Value of Struggle & Rigor

STEM to STEAM

Model Classroom | Digital Toolkit

Technology Integration

Preparing Kids for a Connected World

Article: How Can Teachers Prepare Kids for a Connected World?

Source:MIndShift KQED

Description: Educators are always striving to find ways to make curriculum relevant in students

everyday lives. More and more teachers are usingsocial media around lessons, allowing

students touse their cell phonesto do research and participate in class, and developing

theircurriculum around projectsto ground learning around an activity. These strategies are all

part of a larger goal to help students connect to social and cultural spaces. And its part of what

defines participatory learning, coined by University of Southern California Annenberg

ProfessorHenry Jenkins, who published his first article on the topic Confronting the Challenges

of Participatory Culture, in 2006.

Article: Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible


Description: Failure is a positive act of creativity, Katie Salen said. Scientists, artists,

engineers, and even entrepreneurs know this as adults. But in schools, the notion of failure is

complicated. Salen, executive director of theInstitute of Playand founder ofQuest to Learn, the

first public school based on the principles of game design in the U.S., explained how failure can

be a motivating agent for learning inher presentation at SXSW. Any practice athletic, artistic,

even social involves repeatedly failing till one gets the experience or activity right. We need to

keep the challenge constant so players are able to fail and try again, she said. Its hard and it

leads to something rewarding. Game designerJane McGonigalmakes a similar point. She

dedicates an entire chapter in her bookReality Is Brokento fun failure and why it makes us

happy. When were playing a well-designed game, failure doesnt disappoint us. It makes us
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happy in a very particular way; excited, interested, and most of all optimistic, Salen said. Fun

failure even makes us more resilient, which keeps us emotionally safe.

Article: Why Learning Should Be Messy


Description: An excerpt ofOne Size Does Not Fit All: A Students Assessment of School, by

17-year-old Nikhil Goyal, a senior at Syosset High School in Woodbury, New York. Can

creativity be taught? Absolutely. The real question is: How do we teach it? In school, instead of

crossing subjects and classes, we teach them in a very rigid manner. Very rarely do you witness

math and science teachers or English and history teachers collaborating with each other.

Sticking in your silo, shell, and expertise is comfortable. Well, its time to crack that shell. Its

time to abolish silos and subjects. Joichi Ito, director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, told me that rather

than interdisciplinary education, which merges two or more disciplines, we need anti-disciplinary

education, a term coined by Sandy Pentland, head of the labs Human Dynamics group.

Todays problems from global poverty to climate change to the obesity epidemic are more

interconnected and intertwined than ever before and they cant possibly be solved in the

academic or research silos of the twentieth century, writes Frank Moss, the former head of theM.I.T. Media Lab. Schools cannot just simply add a creativity hour and call it a day. Principal at

High Tech High, an innovative, project-based learning school in San Diego, California, Larry

Rosenstock, points out, If you were to hike the Appalachian trail, which would take you months

and months, and you reflect upon it, you do not divide the experience into the historic, scientific,

mathematical, and English aspects of it. You would look at it holistically.

Article: Got a Problem? Students Can Find the Solution


Description: Schools are the perfect breeding ground for fostering students questions, a place

to spark students interests and ideas for designing innovative solutions to real problems.

Everyday, educators have opportunities to help kids develop the tools, skills and habits to come

up with meaningful, lasting solutions to problems. Take, for example, an incident that occurred

in a first-grade teachers classroom at Marin Country Day School in Northern California, which

provided an opportunity to understand design thinking. More about Design Thinking?

See (video)60 Minutes interview with David Kelly, founder of IDEO.

Social & Emotional Intelligence

Article: Empathy: The Key to Social and Emotional Learning


Description: Educators are aware that social problems like poverty, unsafe neighborhoods,

violence, and family trauma can affect how students learn when they come to school. Though

teaching subjects like math and literacy are the biggest part of their job, in many cases theyre
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also called on to attend to their students emotional health as well, incorporating social and

emotional skills.

Related:How Parents and Schools Can Help Build Kids Emotional Strength

Radio Podcast (55 min KQED Forum):Teaching Social and Emotional Learning

Engaging Students Critical Thinking Skills - Questioning Techniques

Article: Why the Question is More Important Than the Answer

Teaching students to ask thier own questions


Description: In a traditional classroom, the teacher is the center of attention, the owner of

knowledge and information. Teachers often ask questions of their students to gauge

comprehension, but its a passive model that relies on students to absorb information they need

to reproduce on tests. What would happen if the roles were flipped and students asked the

questions? BUT, How do you teach students to ask their own questions?

Resource: The Right Question Institute Educator Resource

Source: The Right Question Institute

Description: The Right Question Institute (RQI) is a non-profit educational organization offering

what many people consider to be the simplest, most powerful strategy available for helping

people in low and moderate-income communities learn to advocate for themselves, participate

in decisions that affect them and partner with service-providers and public officials. RQIsinnovative methods are delivered through educational, health care, social service, community-

based organizations and public agencies all over the country and beyond.

Article: Got a Problem? Students Can Find the Solution


Description: Schools are the perfect breeding ground for fostering students questions, a place

to spark students interests and ideas for designing innovative solutions to real problems.

Everyday, educators have opportunities to help kids develop the tools, skills and habits to comeup with meaningful, lasting solutions to problems.

Example Lesson: Recycling as a Focus for Project Based Learning

Source:NYTimes Learning Network

Description: This is the third post in a series in which the education writer Suzie Boss suggests

ways to use The New York TimesFixesblog and other resources as inspiration for designing

real-world projects for schools. This Lesson challenges students to lead the way in recycling at

their school, home and community.
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Challenge Based Learning - Teacher Guide

File: Challenge Based Learning - Classroom Guide

Source:www.ChallengeBasedLearning.org

Description: CBL is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that

encourages learners to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world

problems. Challenge Based Learning website is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to

work with peers, teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to ask good

questions, develop deep subject area knowledge, identify and solve challenges, take action,

and share their experience.

Article:Whats the best Way to Practice Project Based Learning?

Source:http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/

Description: Project Based Learning can mean different things to different people, and can be

practiced in a variety of ways. For educators who want to dive in, the good news is that a rich

trove of resources are available. In order to create your own definition and practice, here are

some parameters to consider.

Article: How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory | Generating Ideas

Source:http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/

Description: How can we prepare todays students to become tomorrows innovators? If were

serious about preparing students to become innovators, educators have some hard work ahead.

Getting students ready to tackle tomorrows challenges means helping them develop a new set

of skills and fresh ways of thinking that they wont acquire through textbook-driven instruction.

Students need opportunities to practice these skills on right-sized projects, with supports in

place to scaffold learning. They need to persist and learn from setbacks. Thats how theyll

develop the confidence to tackle difficult problems.

Framing Projects with a Challenge | Crafting a Challenge

Article: Big Idea | Essential Questions | Crafting the Challenge

Source: Contributed by Brian Burnett, based on Challange Based Learning Classroom Guide

Description: Framing "The Challenge" for your students can be a challenge in itself. This guide

provides a 3-Step process to help you and your students to work together to learn about

compelling issues, propose solutions to real problems, and take action.
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Teachers as Learning Designers: Design Thinking

Article: Teacher as Learning Designerby Andrew Miller

Source: Huffington Post

Description: We should start to see ourselves as designers. The term "teaching" holds cultural

images and schema that many us quickly tap into. I encourage anyone to google "teaching" or

"teacher" and see the majority of images that pop up. You will most like see an individual at the

front of the room, pointing to something on a board while talking to students. We know it isn't like

that all the time, and we also know this doesn't work for our students. Many teachers have been

pushed into a role where they are not being utilized for their expertise and skills. Through highlystandardized curricula and pacing guides, teachers are told exactly how to teach, rather than being

empowered to differentiate instruction and create engaging learning environments to meet the

needs of their students. How do we not only clarify what teachers can and should do in the

classroom and re-frame this conversation on the role and expertise of a teacher?

File: Design Thinking Toolkit | Bootleg Bootcamp

Source:The d.school (institute of Design at Stanford)

Description: Design thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of problems or issuesthat looks for an improved future result. This toolkit supports a design thinking practice and is a

guide to help you employ these methods and tools in project based learning.

Video: Design Thinking | 60 Minutes Interview with David Kelly, founder of IDEO

Source: 60 Minutes

Description: Design Thinking at work: How design breakthrough inventions. Global firm IDEO

incorporates human behavior into product design -- an innovative approach being taught at

Stanford. Charlie Rose profiles the company's founder, David Kelley.

File: Design Thinking for Educators (Toolkit Ver 2.0)

Source:www.DesignThinkingForEducators.com/

Description: Design Thinking is a mindset. Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone

can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a

difficult challenge. That kind of optimism is well needed in education. The Design Thinking

Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the

context of K-12 education. It offers new ways to be intentional and collaborative when
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designing, and empowers educators to create impactful solutions. Produced by IDEO in

partnership with Riverdale Country School. IDEO uses similar processes, methods and tools for

years in tackling some dauntingly complex challenges.

The Culture of Overachievement | Overscheduled Kids

Podcast: Overachieving Kids

Source:WAMU - The Kiojo MNamdi Show (American University, Washington DC)

Description: It's something of a cliche that kids today are overscheduled, grade-obsessed and

under enormous pressure to land at the right school. Anxiety and depression are soaring among

kids, including high achievers who believe they're only as good as their last success. We ask

two experts how parents can rethink priorities and raise happy, well-adjusted kids.

Expert Guests:

Judith Warner:Columnist for Time.com; author, Weve Got Issues: Children and

Parents in the age of Medication, and Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of

Anxiety

Madeline Levine: Psychologist; Author, "The Price of Privilege" and "Teach Your

Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success"

The Value of Struggle

Podcast: Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning

Source: NPR - Morning Edition

Description: Americans tend to see struggle as a sign of low ability. Asian cultures see it as an

opportunity. Jim Stigler, a professor of psychology at UCLA, studies teaching and learning

around the world, looking how differently East and West approach the experience of intellectual

struggle.

Book: HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED - Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

Source: NYTimes Book Review

Description: According to Paulk Tough, for one to succeed, character trumps cognitive skills. In

his new book, How Children Succeed, Tough sets out to replace this assumption with what

might be called the character hypothesis: the notion that noncognitive skills, like persistence,

self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence, are more crucial than sheer

brainpower to achieving success.
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STEM to STEAM

Article: Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core

Source:www.Edutopia.org

Description: Integration requires collaboration, research, intentional alignment and practical

application on behalf of the teachers who take on this challenge. From the students, integrationdemands creativity, problem-solving, perseverance, collaboration and the ability to work through

the rigorous demands of multiple ideas and concepts woven together to create a final product.

Integration is not simply combining two or more contents together. It is an approach to teaching

which includes intentional identification of naturally aligned standards, taught authentically

alongside meaningful assessments which take both content areas to a whole new level. Put

together, these components set the foundation for how we will be able to facilitate the Common

Core State Standards.

Article:STEAM Education Gains Momentum in Schools

Source:eSchoolNews.com

Description: Design is increasingly becoming a key differentiator for technology startups and

products, the website states, and art and design provide real solutions for our everyday lives,

distinguish American products in a global marketplace, and create opportunity for economic

growth. Integrating the arts into STEM education encourages students to develop critical

thinking skills and innovative approaches to problem-solving, advocates saywhile enhancing

creative thinking and student engagement."

More Information: STEM to STEAM

Source: http://stemtosteam.org/

Description: The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by RISD President John Maeda, is

supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and businesspeople from RISD

and beyond. Innovation remains tightly coupled with Science, Technology, Engineering, and

Math the STEM subjects. Art + Design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st

century just as Science and Technology did in the last century. We need to add Art + Design to

the equation.

Model Classroom | Digital Toolkit

Google Doc: Ultimate Educator Toolkit

Source: Model Classroom team and the community of educators around the country

Description: The Ultimate Educator Toolkit is an organic list of digital tools, Educational

Games, and Educational Resources. Tools and games can be sorted by purpose, tool name, or

description. All feedback, additions, modifications, alerts are welcome here. All these come from

you and the community of educators around the country. It's a public document that can be

shared with students and colleagues.
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Technology Integration

Article: Using Digital Media to Enhance Educational Transfer

Source: http://SMARTblogs.com/Education

Description: one of the best ways to promote transfer is to balance students cognitive loadwhile they consume or create multimedia. In todays digitally enhanced world, we often ask

students to create or consume something rooted in multimedia. This allows our students to

experience many different versions of the same idea. However, how often do we consider which

specific multimedia designs actually balance cognitive load and promote long lasting learning

and transfer?

Resource:Technology Integration Matrix tool (TIM)Source:Arizona K-12 Center

The Arizona K12 Center serves as a vital hub connecting Arizona's educators with the mostcurrent best practices in professional development. With the practitioner standing at the

intersection of theory and practice, the Arizona K12 Center develops and facilitates leading

professional development solutions for our classrooms today.

Related Edudemic Article:http://edudemic.com/2012/12/correctly-integrating-technology/

Description: The Technology Integration Matrix(TIM) illustrates how teachers can use

technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent

characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive,

authentic, and goal directed (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates

five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, andtransformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments.

Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful

learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.

Florida Center for Instructional Technology version of TIM:http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/matrix.php
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SlideShare:Transformative Technology Integration in Classrooms

Source: SETDA - State Educational Technology Directors Association (http://www.setda.org/

Presentation by Dr. Joan E. Hughes on November 8, 2010 for SETDA - State Educational

Technology Directors Association (http://www.setda.org/). This was a 10 minute talk to get a

working group started on the topic "Helping Educators Transform Their Practice."
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