21st Century Skills in the English Language Arts

Classroom

WithKaren Brooks

Updated 10/23/08

Webinar Resources and More for ELA may be found at:

• http://delicious.com/dembe01/ela • http://slideshare.net/kbrooks• http://www.karenbrooks.wikispaces.com• http://www.karenbrooksucboces.blogspot.com

Our students livein a digital world,that in many cases has been personalized since birth.

Articles• 21st Century Education Preparing Students f

or Tomorrow

• Defining the Role of a 21st Century Literacy Specialist

• Introduction to iTunes U– McGraw-Hill has

experimented with iTunes University.MyScribe claims to be iTunes for textbooks - but you still have to buy the whole book.

• Cellular Storytelling

http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/21stcentury/21st_century.pdf

FromChristian School Journal

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/matrices/ictmap_english.pdf

36 Page Report

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/downloads/P21_Report.pdf

New Sites Popping Up

http://hastac.ning.com/ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4PRN/is_2008_July_1/ai_n27877649%E2%80%9D

New Job Description The 21st Century Literacy Specialist is responsible for the successful integration of 21st century

literacy skills across the curriculum by:

Teaching and Instruction• co-planning, co-teaching, co-assessing units of inquiry

which authentically embed 21st century literacy skills • assist in differentiation for highly able or struggling

students through the use of technology, including independently teaching smaller groups of students when needed

• ensuring 21st century literacy enduring understandings and guiding questions are authentically embedded into curriculum at each grade level

• closely collaborating with the Media Specialist to ensure seamless transition and use of both traditional and digital literacy tools

Leadership and Curriculum Development• continue to develop, define, promote and share vision

and framework for 21st century learning at ISB • promote ethical use of technology, and develop

authentic projects that actively work towards developing digital citizenship among staff and students

• collaboratively work with administration, curriculum and technology coordinators, Media Specialist, and grade level teams to further develop ISB embedded 21st century literacy program

Professional Development

• provide regular professional development opportunities to help build teacher’s understanding around 21st century literacy

• coordinate and run mentor program to help classroom teachers understand the paradigm shift of 21st century teaching

• work with staff to develop and promote use of 21st century tools for efficiency and productivity in their jobs

Communication and Collaboration

• promoting and sharing successful 21st century literacy projects with wider school community

• document teaching and learning experiences in a central place for all faculty and parents to access

• developing a truly 21st century approach to learning and teaching by working in partnership with:

– the Technology and Learning Coordinator to coordinate hardware, software, and school-wide infrastructure so that focus can be on pedagogical support

– the Media Specialist to coordinate and support traditional literacy

http://k12onlineconference.org/

Presentations to Check Out• It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It? So Why

Would We Teach as Though It Was?Stephen Heppell

• How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution?Alice Barr, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes

• Free Tools for Universal Design for Learning in LiteracyJennifer Kraft

• Reading Revolution: New Texts and New TechnologiesLaurie Fowler

• We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging MentorsKathy Cassidy and Patrick Lewis

More to com - http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k12online2008schedule.html

Mr. Miller’s Classroom 10 Bloghttp://millersenglish10.blogspot.com/index.html

The 21st

Century Schoolhouse Bloghttp://literaturecirclesintheclassroom.blogspot.com/2007/04/watching-my-students-think-this-all.html

eHowhttp://www.ehow.com/how_2101674_start-classroom-blog.html

Education with Technology

http://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/what-does-writing-mean-in-the-21st-century/

Examples of Blogs and Literature• Sarah Plain and Tall

• Mrs. Young’s Summer Reading Camp

• Classroom Blogmiester

• Two Writing Teachers

• Grammar Girl Blog and Podcast

• Spinning a Learning Web – Photo Friday

• Photo Friday

The Electronic Pencil http://epencil.edublogs.org/

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest http://www.lakelandschools.us/blogs/serichsen/?page_id=2

Library of Congress Photos on

There are currently two pilot sets on Flickr:

• 1930s-40s in Color http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

• News in 1910 http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603624867509/

Also check out on Flickr – Digital Storytelling in 5 photos

or less.http://flickr.com/groups/visualstory/

Web Cams from Around the Worldhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318306,00.html

http://www.cornpalace.org/newpages/webcam.htmlhttp://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htmhttp://www.paris-live.com/http://www.123-cams.com/live-webcam.php?var=6051&site=http://www.pyramidcam.comhttp://www.123-cams.com/live-webcam.php?var=1326&site=http://www.therocks.com/sydney-Webcam_Rocks_Viewing.htmhttp://www.123-cams.com/live-webcam.php?var=6407&site=http://www.vivendamiranda.com/webcam/webcam-general.htm

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.htmlhttp://www.pikespeakcam.com/http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/ http://rhwcam.markant.at/http://www.mmdfactory.com/webcam/Israel/Western_Wall__Jerusalem_Webcam.htmlhttp://www.sdpb.org/dakotacast/webcam/rushmore.asp

Clickable Poemshttp://www.clickablepoems.com/

Shakespeare in the Classroom http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators/

Who Saidhttp://www.whosaid.org/

A Literature Game Podcast

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/readlanguage/

Don’t forget these valuable tools

• Power Media Plus• http://www.powerme

diaplus.com/

• Liberty Kids Videos

• United Streaming at • http://streaming.disc

overyeducation.com/index.cfm

Video Conferencinghttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/directory.cfm

THE GROUCHY LADYBUG http://www.yorkville.k12.il.us/webquests/webqfrey/webqsfrey.html

Google Lit Trips http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Other Great

Web 2.0 Resources

for ELA

ToonDoohttp://www.toondoo.com/

http://goanimate.com/

http://www.smilebox.com/

http://www.bubbleshare.com/

http://mnemograph.com/

http://comiqs.com/index.html

• http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools– http://www.joggle.com/

– http://www.imageloop.com/en/index.htm

– http://www.onetruemedia.com/

Resource Generators• http://www.citationmachine.com/• http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/• http://www.palomar.edu/dsps/actc/mla/• http://citationcenter.net/ctool.php5• http://www.easybib.com/• http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?Grd=Sec• http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&to

ol=bibliographymaker&bib_view=edit&bib_type=onlineperiodical&new_bib.x=23&new_bib.y=18&new_bib=New

• http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/citation/• http://www.eturabian.com/turabian/index.html• http://www.bibme.org/• http://workscited.tripod.com/• http://ottobib.com/• http://citationsense.com/• http://eduvelop.com/k12/tools/mlagen/

www.widgetbox.com/

• Get interactive generators for your class blog or webpage

http://blabberize.com/

http://wordle.net/

Digital Storytelling http://web2-and-you-2.pbwiki.com/Digital%20Storytelling%20in%20Social%20Studies

So Little Time and So Many More Sites• Bookgoo http://bookgoo.com/ Highlight and share documents• Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/ Note-taking tool• Glogster - http://www.glogster.com/ Poster Creation• Tiddywiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ Personal Notebook • WriteBoard http://writeboard.com/ Collaborative Writing Tool • Kerpoof - http://www.kerpoof.com/ Digital Storytelling • Quizlet - http://quizlet.com/ Online Flashcards • Zoho - http://zoho.com/ Online office applications• Ekpenso - http://en.ekpenso.com/ Online Mindmapping Tool• SpellCheck.net - http://spellcheck.net/ - Spellchecker• Venn Diagram Generator - http://www.classtools.net/main_area/venn.htm • Anderson FairyTales.com - http://andersenfairytales.com/en/main - animated• Collaborative Writing Generator - http://

www.readwritethink.org/materials/doodle/index.html • Thinkfinity – ELA Interactives - http://thinkfinity.org/SearchResults.aspx?subject=

languagearts&partner=all&resource_type=interactives&q=&grade=all&WebSiteArea=educator

• Kitzu - http://www.kitzu.org/ Digital Storytelling • Kwout - http://kwout.com/•

Contact

Karen BrooksKbrooks@mhric.org