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Archive for the ‘21st Century Skills’ Category
Constructivist Theory Inspired Learning
June 14th, 2011
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Tweet Constructivist theory or constructivism is a learning model that empowers students to learn through their own classroom-guided experiences and reflect upon those experiences. Let’s talk more about this learning model today, and how visual thinking and learning tools can support this type of learning.
Use Visual Thinking to Facilitate Critical Thinking
June 7th, 2011
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Tweet Critical thinking is one of those terms that is bantered around quite often when talking about the skills students need for the 21st century and to excel in academic pursuits, life and work. Yet, it’s probably one of the toughest set of skills to define, model and teach. Critical Thinking includes good problem solving Read more »
Visually Think Through the Brainstorming Process
April 26th, 2011
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Tweet So your students have sat down at their computers to begin brainstorming. They have a main idea in the center of their screens and maybe they’ve started to RapidFire® every concept that comes to mind on the topic. Soon their screens are full of words, pictures and symbols that represent their thoughts. This visual Read more »
Teaching DNA for the 21st Century
April 12th, 2011
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Tweet Improving education ultimately comes down to supporting our teachers and helping them develop and expand their methods of teaching as the world evolves and the demands of educating our youth change. To me, this means giving teachers the fundamental building blocks and tools to prepare students for the 21st century. Yet, what are those Read more »
What Are the Ingredients of Learning?
April 5th, 2011
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Tweet In his State of the Union address last January, President Barack Obama put education at the top of the agenda. These themes for education reform and change have rippled through the nation with his recent campaigns for the Race to the Top.1 There’s a great deal of talk about technology integration, 21st century skills, Read more »
Webspiration Classroom From Bloom’s Perspective
March 8th, 2011
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Tweet A couple weeks ago, Pete MacKay featured an infographic recommended by educator Linda Hyler on The Teacher List, a weekday newsletter highlighting interesting sites around education.1 This infographic places digital, Web 2.0 tools into Bloom’s Taxonomy, making it Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. While reviewing the diagram, I was thrilled to see our newest online writing, visual thinking Read more »
Among the P21 Skills, Are We Teaching Students the Skills of Learning?
December 14th, 2010
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Tweet Educators today are faced with the daunting task of wearing many hats in and outside their classrooms. Yet, the monumental task is teaching the basic skills and building blocks of reading, writing, analyzing, synthesizing and researching while instilling in students the desire to ask questions and then seek out their own answers. This is Read more »
