This week’s post is all about collaboration. The idea of the metacognitive challenge for the 21st century skills movement is for education to grow and consider technology and more progressive ways into the curriculum. The movement is skills that people need for work, citizenship, and self-actualization. The framework for the 21st century skills movement is different groups working together. The groups are working in a way to make sure that their ideas are building off of one another. They are collaborating to create a framework for the skills movement.
Talking about collaboration leads into the next topic. PLCs and PLNs stand for Professional Learning Communities and Professional Learning Networks. The important features of a PLC are
“people must work collaboratively rather than in isolation. They must engage in collective inquiry to address the issues most essential to student learning. They must resolve issues and answer questions by building shared knowledge about their current reality and the most promising practices occurring both within and outside of the school and district. They must continually monitor student learning and gather evidence of that learning in order to inform and improve their professional practice, respond to students who need additional support, and drive their continuous improvement process” (Bellanca & Brandt, 2010).
The main idea of PLCs are all about collaboration. I think this is important because I work must better collaboratively. I think that sharing ideas, combing them, and improving them makes for better ideas than ones that I can come up with by myself. It is hard for schools to advance to 21st ways of thinking. These are listed in the following table. I think some of the more difficult reasons for schools to become PLCs are that it is hard for some teachers to work collaboratively, which is very important to PLCs. Teachers that have been working for a long time might find difficulty in changing the ways they teach, another difficulty is differentiating for all students.
Switching gears, this week in class we are focusing on Digital Age Citizenship lessons. The focus for my lesson is the Digital Footprint and Reputation. The age group I am teaching this to is eleventh and twelfth graders. Within this lesson I will incorporate the ‘big idea’ question. For this lesson the ‘big idea’ question for my students is “What do you think a digital footprint is?Why do you think that we need to understand the digital foot print? What effects does the digital footprint have on a person’s reputation?” The reasons behind this are that these students are looking into and applying to colleges and jobs. They also need to think about their safety. I will help them explore these questions with a video demonstrating what kind of information that they are posting about themselves and how it is on the internet forever. Including ‘big idea’ questions in lessons is important. These help students discover more and dig into topics more.
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Bellanca, J. & Brandt, R. (2010). 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press
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