21st Learning Commons
+
Your Personal Learning
Network
Great Teachers
Make Great Schools
August 9, 2011
Paula Nespeca Deal
http://www.infohio.org
INFOhio Consultant
deal@infohio.org
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Alvin Toffler,
Author of Future Shock.
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Today’s Learner
•What are 2-3 biggest
changes in society?
•What are 2-3 skills
students need today?
•How intentional are
schools in developing these
skills?
--From Ken Kay, President,
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Digital Disconnect
•The mobile learner
•It’s a Web 2.0 World
•“I’ll take that class to go!”
•Digital content & online textbooks
•Exploring STEM careers
– Project Tomorrow, Speak Up
survey
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Is this what school
means to students?
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Are your students…
• Critical thinkers?
• Problem solvers?
• Good communicators?
• Good collaborators?
• Information and technology literate?
• Flexible and adaptable?
• Innovative and creative?
• Globally competent?
• Environmentally literate?
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What Are 21st Century
Learning Skills?
• 3 Rs with 4 Cs
• Digital & Information
Literacy
• Digital Citizenship
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Implications for Ohio Schools
• How do we teach these skills?
• How do we incorporate them into our Ohio
Academic Content Standards?
• How do we provide teachers with training?
• How do we measure these skills?
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Pre-K-16 = P-20 plan
“Career and
college
readiness.”
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New Ohio ACS
21st Century Learning Skills
Core skills incorporated into teaching and
learning of academic contents
• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
• Meta-cognition
• Communication/Collaboration
• Research/Information Fluency
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How do we prepare our students?
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How do we prepare our students?
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What Is INFOhio?
• Video Introduction
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What Is INFOhio?
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• Statewide cooperative school library and
information network
• Support and enrich teaching and learning by
providing:
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Go Further! Initiative
• Collaborative project of INFOhio and OhioLINK
• Preparing PreK-16 Ohio learners for success
• Helping today's students & tomorrow's
teachers at Ohio higher ed.
• Helping students with transitions to career
and college through teaching/learning of
information literacy skills
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INFOhio Go Further! Portal
• For educators
• For students
• For librarians
• http://www.infohio.org/PreparingOhioLearners.html
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What is a Learning Commons?
• David Loertscher
– Knowledge building centers
• In person in a classroom
• Online – a learning commons area
– E.g.. webinar, Moodle, Google Apps
– Web 2.0 tools, students personalize and create and share
content
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21st Century Learning
Definitions
• Web 2.0 • 21st Century Learning
• Classroom 2.0 Commons Glossary
• Library 2.0
• 21st Century Skills
• Mobile computing
• Knowledge Building
Center
• Learning Commons
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INFOhio Learning Commons
• http://learningcommons.infohio.org/
• Video introduction
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21st Essential Things
for 21st Century Success
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Thing Structure
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Standards and Learning Path
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Credit Options
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Research Project Calculator
• Interactive site to teach research
• Tailored to each student and assignment
– http://www2.infohio.org/rpc/
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Research Project Calculator
• Version 2.0 available now
• NEW Teacher Support Materials
• Let’s take a quick look…
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www2.infohio.org/rpc/
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TRAILS
http://www.trails-9.org/
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Creating Your Personal Learning
Network
• PLNs are deliberately formed networks of
people and resources capable of guiding our
independent learning goals and professional
development needs.
• Corinne Weisgerber & Shannan Butler, How to Create
Your Personal Learning Network, Slideshare
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Ways to Build Your PLN
LiveBinder of Suggestions
From Paula Deal and Melissa Horwell
http://livebinders.com/edit?id=118736
• Learn
• Communicate
• Participate
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http://learningcommons.infohio.org
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Other PLN
• Edweb.net
• Classroom 2.0
• Social bookmarking—Delicious, LiveBinders
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google+
• Making Curriculum Pop—Ning
• Edmodo –create your own SNS for class
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Follow INFOhio on Twitter
or join the E-Lists.
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