Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Same Thing in a Different Way

Lee Crockett and Andrew Churches



Service class jobs are replaced by technology
Creative class jobs are facilitated by technology
  • freemium games - make most money
  • apps design 
  • Need to develop visual communication for app designs and the future

What are the critical skills students need to be successful in life beyond school?
Our list

  • teamwork / collaboration
  • creativity
  • communication
  • resilience
  • risk taking
  • problem solving
  • critical thinking 
  • managing self
  • social analysis - ethical thinking
  • filtering information
  • dreaming
  • interacting and contributing
Lee's list
  1. Problem soloving
  2. Creativity
  3. Analytical thinking 
  4. Collaborate
  5. Communicate
  6. Ethics, Action, Accountability
21st Century fluencies have nothing to do with hardware
but more to do with headware and heartware


Solution Fluency
define
  • importance of assessment to be shared 
discover
  • relevance and context
  • understand and unpack the problem
  • understanding strengths and weaknesses
dream
design

  • What happened before that?
  • learning progressions 

deliver
debrief
  • review each of the steps and the outcome and consider how could you have made the product and the process better?
What do we want out of 21C Fluencies
  • Relevance
    • present work in a format that students will relate to eg videos, language...
      • Start with the curriculum and identify a standard you would like to address.
      • Who would encounter this in the world beyond school?
      • What would be relevant, in context, or applicable to your students?
  • Creating
  • Real World


New Vocabulary

  • Edutainment
  • Creatical thinking - creative and critical thinking
  • Describe - give a detailed account - who, what, when, where
  • Explain - give a detailed account include causes, reason mechanisms - how and why
  • Analysis
  • Evaluation
  • Elevator pitch - 60 secs to promote your idea.


Kiva.org
Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/
oDesk - Changing how the world works




  • accountability and transparency (esp when work is outsourced)

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