1. 21 st Century Skills How do we get there from here?

2. In 2007 ► ISTE issued National Educational Technology Standards for Students: the Next Generation ► AASL issued Standards for the 21 st -Century Learner

3. What’s ► In?  Digital age literacy  Critical thinking  Ethical behavior ► Out?  Teaching “point and click” technology skills

4. Where are we now?

5. At the crossroads of Cut and Paste and Google

6. What’s so bad about cut & paste? ► It doesn’t require much, if any, thinking. ► It’s wrong, legally and ethically, unless proper credit is given.

7. What about Google? ► It’s not bad. ► It just shouldn’t be the only resource that students know about and use. © 2008 Google

8. Thinking Skills ► A 2006 article in American School Board Journal states: “Teaching students how to find, analyze, and judge data for its worth is a key skill at a time when just about everything is a mouse click away.”

9. Thinking Skills ► The new AASL standards point out that the explosion of information necessitates that students “acquire” thinking skills.

10. Thinking Skills ► More specifically, AASL calls for teaching students how to:  Select information.  Evaluate information.  Use information.

11. What does that mean for us as educators? ► We must teach students to:  Ask questions and develop search strategies before beginning research.  Refine their search strategies as they progress.  Use a variety of resources.  Evaluate the information found.

12. Two Levels to Evaluating Information ► The source: Students need to know that all websites are NOT created equally. ► Relevance: Even “good” information may not be relevant to the question at hand.

13. Evaluating Information Students need to know that all websites are NOT created equally. Not all of the information found is relevant to the question at hand.

14. Ethical Behavior in the Digital Age ► AASL “In this increasingly global world, students must be taught to seek diverse perspectives, gather and use information ethically, and use social tools responsibly and safely.”

15. What does that mean for us as educators? ► Ethical behavior in the use of information must be:  Taught.  Expected.  Modeled.

16. How? ► Teach:  Copyright  Fair use guidelines  Note taking  Paraphrasing  Citing sources  Creating bibliographies

17. How? ► Expect from students:  A variety of resources consulted.  Proper credit for sources used, including images.  Their own work, not a cut and paste document.

18. How? ► Model:  Abide by fair use guidelines.  Give proper credit for the sources that you use.  State expectations of ethical behavior in project/assignment outlines.  Design projects that require original thought, not just “cut and paste.”

19. Is this how this presentation makes you feel? Must you now add NETS and AASL to the alphabet soup of GPS, MYP and AYP?

20. Never Fear! Your media specialist is here!

21. Ready, willing and, hopefully, able… ► To help you with:  Professional development, e.g. ► Searching in GALILEO ► United Streaming ► Using web-based AR ► Using blogs/wikis as educational tools  Classroom instruction in information literacy skills  Collaboration

22. It’s 2008 Already ► It’s time to begin implementing 21 st century skills. ► The task may seem daunting but remember…

23. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Chinese Proverb

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