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21st Century Learning

In addition to core content areas below, we also have a responsbility to teach essential skills for success in today's world, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration.

Core Content Areas

• English, reading, or language arts


• World languages


• Arts


• Math


• Economics


• Science


• Geography


• History


• Government and Civics

These core content areas must be interconnected in the process of 21st century teaching and learning, which includes the following:

• life/career skills


• learning/innocation skills


• information, media, and technology skills

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

Like the previous version's of Bloom's taxonomies, it's the quality of the action or process that defines the cognitive level, rather than the action or process itself. Despite its name, Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is not about tools and technologies. It is not the medium that is important; instead, it is about using these tools to achieve, recall, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and collaborate.

Collaboration has increased its influence on learning because it is essential in the 21st Century. It's not an integral part of the learning process but it enhances it, and it prepares students for the 21st Century workforce. According to Google, communication skills and working together as a team are two of the most important job traits or abilities of 21st Century employees.

These skills can be learned and developed by using technologies in the classroom such as:

• classroom blogs


• Google docs


• social networks


• Skype


• learning management systems such as Blackboard


• And many more

Blogs, social networks, as well as bookmarking and searching are also all examples of using technology to aid remembering and understanding. When used correctly, technologies can enhance any learning process.

Reflection on Ch 2 of Drive

I agree that sometimes goals and rewards are not effective. When someone does something to get paid or to be rewarded, they feel like somebody else has power over them. When you reward people for doing something that they already have done in the past and enjoy doing, you should not start adding incentives and goals to continue the behavior because the person is already doing it and might possibly enjoy doing it without feeling controlled by someone else. Some people are self motivated. They find reasons within themselves to do something or to behave a certain way. If someone else is telling them to do something or to behave in a certain way, sometimes it can be irritating and actually be less likely to produce the desired results. Short term goals can partiularly be inefective, because it makes us concentrate on immediate results instead of the best possible long-term results. Goals and incentives can be effective, but best results are reached when goals are used properly and with care.

Expectations for the Class

In this class, I hope to create an online professional portfolio that will be useful for years to come. I hope to continue to add new content to my website after I am done with this class. I plan to add writing samples from my other blogs, student newspapers, and class papers to display my writing ability to prospective employers looking for a secondary English and journalism teacher. Hopefully, I'll also learn a lot about using technology in an English classroom, such as the use of ebooks and blogging.