21st Century Skills (more than using a computer) - VIDEO ON RESEARCH FOR TEACHING 21st CENTURY SKILLS
21st Century Skill Ladder:
Step 1: Keyboarding - http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech072.shtml
Keyboarding: To be able to type on a keyboard letters, words, and eventually paragraphs. Learning keyboarding is to learn how to type. People sometimes use the word typing but that word was used more when there were typewriters. Today's computers have keyboards so we call this computing skill the skill of keyboarding.
Gathering: To gather is to search for information. Your students should learn how to search for information when they need it. Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo are helpful tools. Searching for information in a library is also helpful. The skill set of being able to search and gather information on a particular topic reaps large benefits in college and in the workplace. You will learn how to help a student gather information on a math topic when they are struggling with the concept, and also how you can help them gather information on the definition of an unfamiliar word.
Comprehending: To comprehend is to understand. During the lessons on the topic of comprehending, you will learn how to help students make sense of what they have gathered. English language learners (ELL) will be especially helped by your having the ability to teach students how to comprehend information they have gathered.
Evaluating: To evaluate is to assess something's value: to assign worth to it. Today's technological society depends heavily on the information found on the internet, but it is important for students to understand that not everything on the internet is valuable. Just because something appears as the first item on a Google search does not mean that information is relevant, useful, or even true. The lessons on evaluating will help you teach students how to decipher whether information is good or not, and will help them find secondary resources to bolster primary resources in order to back up their findings and provide a balanced and accurate presentation of facts.
Synthesizing: To synthesize is to combine into a coherent whole. The lessons on this topic will help you create technology lesson plans that train students to not only use keyboarding skills to gather, comprehend, and evaluate information, but it will help them to put information together in order to support an idea.
Summarizing: To summarize is to give a brief statement of the main points. When students learn to summarize information, this means they have thought through the information and broken it down into key points. Being able to communicate one's ideas to others depends highly on a students' ability to assimilate information to a degree that they can summarize the information. Good presentations start and end with a summary of the presentation. To summarize information is an advanced skill set, that can be aided by technology usage.Keyboarding: To be able to type on a keyboard letters, words, and eventually paragraphs. Learning keyboarding is to learn how to type. People sometimes use the word typing but that word was used more when there were typewriters. Today's computers have keyboards so we call this computing skill the skill of keyboarding.
Gathering: To gather is to search for information. Your students should learn how to search for information when they need it. Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo are helpful tools. Searching for information in a library is also helpful. The skill set of being able to search and gather information on a particular topic reaps large benefits in college and in the workplace. You will learn how to help a student gather information on a math topic when they are struggling with the concept, and also how you can help them gather information on the definition of an unfamiliar word.
Comprehending: To comprehend is to understand. During the lessons on the topic of comprehending, you will learn how to help students make sense of what they have gathered. English language learners (ELL) will be especially helped by your having the ability to teach students how to comprehend information they have gathered.
Evaluating: To evaluate is to assess something's value: to assign worth to it. Today's technological society depends heavily on the information found on the internet, but it is important for students to understand that not everything on the internet is valuable. Just because something appears as the first item on a Google search does not mean that information is relevant, useful, or even true. The lessons on evaluating will help you teach students how to decipher whether information is good or not, and will help them find secondary resources to bolster primary resources in order to back up their findings and provide a balanced and accurate presentation of facts.
Synthesizing: To synthesize is to combine into a coherent whole. The lessons on this topic will help you create technology lesson plans that train students to not only use keyboarding skills to gather, comprehend, and evaluate information, but it will help them to put information together in order to support an idea.
Summarizing: To summarize is to give a brief statement of the main points. When students learn to summarize information, this means they have thought through the information and broken it down into key points. Being able to communicate one's ideas to others depends highly on a students' ability to assimilate information to a degree that they can summarize the information. Good presentations start and end with a summary of the presentation. To summarize information is an advanced skill set, that can be aided by technology usage.
Keyboarding: To be able to type on a keyboard letters, words, and eventually paragraphs. Learning keyboarding is to learn how to type. People sometimes use the word typing but that word was used more when there were typewriters. Today's computers have keyboards so we call this computing skill the skill of keyboarding.
Gathering: To gather is to search for information. Your students should learn how to search for information when they need it. Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo are helpful tools. Searching for information in a library is also helpful. The skill set of being able to search and gather information on a particular topic reaps large benefits in college and in the workplace. You will learn how to help a student gather information on a math topic when they are struggling with the concept, and also how you can help them gather information on the definition of an unfamiliar word.
Comprehending: To comprehend is to understand. During the lessons on the topic of comprehending, you will learn how to help students make sense of what they have gathered. English language learners (ELL) will be especially helped by your having the ability to teach students how to comprehend information they have gathered.
Evaluating: To evaluate is to assess something's value: to assign worth to it. Today's technological society depends heavily on the information found on the internet, but it is important for students to understand that not everything on the internet is valuable. Just because something appears as the first item on a Google search does not mean that information is relevant, useful, or even true. The lessons on evaluating will help you teach students how to decipher whether information is good or not, and will help them find secondary resources to bolster primary resources in order to back up their findings and provide a balanced and accurate presentation of facts.
Synthesizing: To synthesize is to combine into a coherent whole. The lessons on this topic will help you create technology lesson plans that train students to not only use keyboarding skills to gather, comprehend, and evaluate information, but it will help them to put information together in order to support an idea.
Summarizing: To summarize is to give a brief statement of the main points. When students learn to summarize information, this means they have thought through the information and broken it down into key points. Being able to communicate one's ideas to others depends highly on a students' ability to assimilate information to a degree that they can summarize the information. Good presentations start and end with a summary of the presentation. To summarize information is an advanced skill set, that can be aided by technology usage.Keyboarding: To be able to type on a keyboard letters, words, and eventually paragraphs. Learning keyboarding is to learn how to type. People sometimes use the word typing but that word was used more when there were typewriters. Today's computers have keyboards so we call this computing skill the skill of keyboarding.
Gathering: To gather is to search for information. Your students should learn how to search for information when they need it. Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo are helpful tools. Searching for information in a library is also helpful. The skill set of being able to search and gather information on a particular topic reaps large benefits in college and in the workplace. You will learn how to help a student gather information on a math topic when they are struggling with the concept, and also how you can help them gather information on the definition of an unfamiliar word.
Comprehending: To comprehend is to understand. During the lessons on the topic of comprehending, you will learn how to help students make sense of what they have gathered. English language learners (ELL) will be especially helped by your having the ability to teach students how to comprehend information they have gathered.
Evaluating: To evaluate is to assess something's value: to assign worth to it. Today's technological society depends heavily on the information found on the internet, but it is important for students to understand that not everything on the internet is valuable. Just because something appears as the first item on a Google search does not mean that information is relevant, useful, or even true. The lessons on evaluating will help you teach students how to decipher whether information is good or not, and will help them find secondary resources to bolster primary resources in order to back up their findings and provide a balanced and accurate presentation of facts.
Synthesizing: To synthesize is to combine into a coherent whole. The lessons on this topic will help you create technology lesson plans that train students to not only use keyboarding skills to gather, comprehend, and evaluate information, but it will help them to put information together in order to support an idea.
Summarizing: To summarize is to give a brief statement of the main points. When students learn to summarize information, this means they have thought through the information and broken it down into key points. Being able to communicate one's ideas to others depends highly on a students' ability to assimilate information to a degree that they can summarize the information. Good presentations start and end with a summary of the presentation. To summarize information is an advanced skill set, that can be aided by technology usage.