Comments for ISTE Emerging Technologies Workspace

Comment on Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making by Here be dragons and critical thinking | Leigh in Azerbaijan

Here be dragons and critical thinking | Leigh in Azerbaijan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:48:26 +0000

[...] As an indication of what learning might look like today I include the following points. They are similar to the methodology we use at our PYP school for the units of inquiry. They don’t fit with traditional pedagogy. You can find them here. [...]

Comment on Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making by Leigh Newton

Leigh Newton — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:36:47 +0000

This is strikingly similar to the PYP process in the International Bacalaureate for the Units of Inquiry.

Comment on ET, ISTE NETS and 21st Century Skills by Paul McKenzie

Paul McKenzie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:11:23 +0000

We have just finished our first quarter with the 07 ISTE standards and can only say it has been a great success. My wife and I were fortunate to attend the NECC in Atlanta and took a lot of fresh ideas back with us to Kuwait.

These standards are clear and concise and are able to reflect the changing world of edtech in K12 environments. With the shift away from teaching technology to teaching with technology, the new standards were made to integrate smoothly with PBL and performance assessment.

Thanks to ISTE, I was able to create rubrics that left no stones unturned. One of the more successful projects we did integrated Voicethread with expectations from Social Studies, English and of course ICT. The students met many of the ISTE standards for HS and learnt how to be Web2.0 prosumers as well as digital citizens.

Besides the swarm of webware available for PBL, Scratch, Sketchup, and Podcasting are three that shine particularly when aiming to meet these redefined standards. Yes, my students are 21st Century literate – now they have to convince their other subject teachers to allow them to use these tools to communicate, collaborate and create.

A good number of my students are currently attempting to persuade their English and other core teachers to accept Diigo webslides as alternatives to black ink on white paper. Let’s face it, when students know their work has a potentially global audience that reflects who they are, they create real quality – because they know their voice counts, and they take pride in that fact.

Cheers.

Comment on About the ISTE ET Workspace by Malinda Daniel

Malinda Daniel — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:48:51 +0000

I believe the new Reader technology has many advantages for students of all ages.

Comment on Research and Information Fluency by David Thornburg

David Thornburg — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:38:22 +0000

CMap from IHMC is a spectacular example of a program whose use reinforces 21st century skills. At first blush it is a concept mapping tool (like Inspiration), but with important differences, including the ability for folks to collaborate on maps, post their maps on CMap servers, etc. This communication capability catapults this free product way beyond anything people are doing with Inspiration. It runs well on Windows, Macs and Linux, and was created by Novak, one of the creators of concept mapping.