*Grp+21st+Century

Lauren Devon Mandy media type="custom" key="13712526"
 * 21st Century Technology Skills **

Let's all put our contacts here for exchanging ideas of the project.
Mandy- ltang0@frostburg.edu Lauren- kearnlau@wcps.k12.md.us Devon- bokmadev@wcps.k12.md.us

= Resources: =

Mandy:
The author talked about technology in common core standard. He indicated that the CCS seems to see technology as a tool more than a set of skills. The comments under the article is very interesting too. []

This link lists the modern inventions from year 2000 to year 2011: []

This website gives us lots of information about classroom technology in the 21st century []

This article talks about some essential focuses of 21st century technology []

Both teachers who are familiar with classroom technologies and "technology immigrants" should create newer ways for students to learn and achieve their goals: []

History of computers in education []

The frame work of 21st Century Skills []

Lauren and Devon:
The history of CLC's and the link to the grant []

There is not much on this one, however perhaps we could generate a list of professional 21st century endorcements []

Again not much but the clipart to show 21st century learning i thought was a great one []

Interesting artical about how we need to adapt to student learning []

Technology and Children: A Journal for Elementary School Technology Education []

What is STEM and why is it important? Power Point

Great Video on why we need STEM: Did you know? (This video was used in part of a professional development at Pangborn Elementary School) []

The Wolrd of Social Media 2011- Statics, Facts, and Figures (Found at Washington County School website) []

Outline: History Technology and the common core STEM Professional dev Classroom tools Future

**Lauren's- citiations, articles and summaries for 21st technology**
Atkinson, T. S., Swaggerty, E. A., Mays, L. C., & Fink, L. (2011). Empowering fourth-grade researchers: Reaping the rewards of web 2.0 student-centered learning. //Language Arts,// //89//(2), 99-112. Retrieved from []

This article focuses on students knowledge of technology while the teachers focus is on traditional textbook approaches to learning. It discusses incentives for teachers to embrace 21st century digital literacies, valuing the notion of information delievery and rewarding teachers for their "highly-qualified" content expertise.

Is it 21st century? (2010). //School Librarians Workshop,// //31//(2), 18. Retrieved from [] Three key elements to ensure students develop the 21st century skills are explained. Connect, Collaborate, and Create are three elements that must be present for it to be considered 21st century. Connecting is natural to students who rely on social networks for most of their communication and information. Their almost constant links to others make collaboration their preferred method of working. Technology is vital, but only as part of connecting, collaborating, and creating.

Prensky, M. (2008). Turning on the lights. //Educational Leadership,// //65//(6), 40. Retrieved from []

Prensky discusses the need for educators to embrace students' technology-infused lives. Thanks to technology, kids grow up knowing about, or being able to find out about, pretty much anything from past or present that interests them. Once educators let students take the lead on technology projects, teachers tend to see more engagement and better results. Here, he also discusses four important practices that can help make education relevant to students' lives and truly prepare kids for the future.