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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
Source:MIndShift KQED
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
Source:MIndShift KQED
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
Source:MIndShift KQED
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
Source:MIndShift KQED
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
Source:MIndShift KQED
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
Source:MIndShift KQED
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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