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Essential Educational Components
21st Century Learning Skills
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Key Research Summary Points
The 21st century classroom that is structured around the latest in brain research will function to help students articulate solutions to problems while thinking critically about the problem given, working to create new ideas while collaborating with other students, community members, or people around the world all while using appropriate technology.
This model not only typifies the best practices already employed for many students with advanced learning needs, it is also a structure which helps the regular classroom individualize and differentiate learning for all students.
It responds to the rapidly changing society in which students are functioning, developing the the skills of imagination, inventiveness, & global awareness while learning how to process information to be used in new ways making learning its own immediate reward.
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~Digital Ethnography - Making School Real
~Gifted Education & 21st Century Skills: Models for All Classrooms
~Introduction to Project-Based Learning
~Learning Matters - podcast
~Project Learning: An Overview
~School Tube: 21st Century Classroom
~Teacher Tube: Video List for 21st Century
~ YouTube: A Vision of Students Today
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~Besides Google: Guiding Gifted Elementary Students..... Information Superhighway
~Enrichment 2.0: Gifted & Talented for the 21st Century
~Literacy in the 21st Century: The Fourth R
~Technology: Free Options for Internet Video-conferencing
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~The Connected Classroom
~Partnerships for 21st Century Skills: Route 21
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Digital Ethnography - Making School Real
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by Dr. Michael Wesch, Kansas State University |
A video explaining the function of 21st century learning in the classroom as well as a related KSU website demonstrating making school real for students. |
Gifted Education and 21st Century Skills:Models for All Classrooms
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This power point presentation outlines the paradigm shift for teaching in the 21st century, explaining the components in detail necessary in the classroom to equip students not to become a repository for information but instead to teach thinking skills so that the information becomes applicable to success in their everyday lives.
This presentation is good for administrators to begin discussions with faculties in how to transform the learning of the past into relevant learning of the 21st century. There are numerous resources at the end of the presentation as well, by leaders in 21st century learning.
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Introduction to Project-based Learning
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Video introduction to project-based learning
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Learning Matters
Podcast |
This video will give a basis for how the 21st century classroom can respond appropriately to the needs of the gifted student within the regular classroom in an individual manner so that needs are met and gifted students demonstrate the same amount of growth that other students do.
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Project Learning: An Overview
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PBL is a wonderfully appropriate tool for differentiating in the classroom so that gifted student needs are being met while other students can function at an engaging level as well. Gifted students are made aware of many perspectives and allowed to be in charge of their learning. This video gives classroom teachers as well as gifted facilitators a variety of scenarios in which PBL is being used at multiple grade levels. |
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School Tube - 21st Century Classroom
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Video explaining components needed in 21st century classroom
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Teacher Tube: Video List for 21st Century
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Collection of video lessons for teachers
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YouTube: A Vision of Students Today
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a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. |
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Besides Google: Guiding Gifted Elementary Students Onto the Entrance Ramp of the Information Superhighway
Prufrock Press Inc |
Using 21st century learning skills to differentiate learning with depth & complexity for gifted students. For gifted students, the power of the Internet is its vastness.
Students can access extensive resources that far exceed the collections in their classrooms or school library. Especially with the rapid growth of the Internet during the last decade, the gateway to a rich array of sophisticated resources is literally a click away.
Curriculum content can be differentiated by complexity and depth, and those gifted students with the ability to process large amounts of information quickly (Siegle, 2004) can race down the information highway at breakneck speeds.
“The Internet is the single most significant technology available to gifted and talented students” (Siegle, 2005, p. 30).
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Enrichment 2.0: Gifted and Talented Education for the 21st Century
Prufrock Press Inc
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Enrichment clusters, a component of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, are multigrade investigative groups based on constructivist learning methodology (Renzulli, 1994; Renzulli & Reis, 1985).
Enrichment clusters are organized around major disciplines, interdisciplinary themes, or cross-disciplinary topics. Within clusters, students are grouped across grade levels by interests and focused toward the production of real-world products or services.
When the enrichment clusters model was first articulated by Joseph Renzulli, it was modeled after the ways in which knowledge utilization, thinking skills, and interpersonal relations took place in the real world (Renzulli, 1994; Renzulli & Reis, 1985).
Thus, all work was directed toward a common goal—the creation of a product or service. Enrichment clusters have been successful in developing creative producers in the 20th century (Reis, 2008).
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Literacy in the 21st Century: The Fourth R—Video Recording
Prufrock Press Inc |
21st century learning skills-using video recording |
Technology: Free Options for Internet Videoconferencing: Moving Beyond E-mail and Chat
Prufrock Press Inc |
21st century learning skills- free internet options for video conferencing and more.
Providing gifted and talented students with appropriate and intellectually stimulating learning opportunities that further their talent development can be a major challenge. This challenge can range from locating more advanced curriculum materials to helping gifted students explore an area of interest.
While this challenge is particularly daunting for those in isolated areas or with limited resources, technology has enabled parents and educators to expand gifted students’ learning options with minimal expense.
Although most users primarily view the Internet as a repository of knowledge that is easily accessible through a search engine such as Google, the Internet’s simple capacity to connect users is an equally important strength. |
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