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=Welcome to the 21st Century Teaching and Learning Wiki= = =

Here we will share resources and information for EDUC 639-040--Summer 2009

 * Our essential question**: How can we adapt, employ, and embrace 21st century skills to develop dynamic learners capable of teaching themselves in an ever-changing information landscape?

As is everything in our course, this essential question is open to discussion and change.

Understanding the various [|literacies] that combine to create a 21st century learner. Terms used to embrace these various literacies under one umbrella include learning literacies and contemporary literacies. (Warlick)

**Where do we begin?**
[|ITSE NETS Standards] -- What an information literate teacher and student should look like
 * Take a look at the Discussion Tab to further explore NETS-T and begin thinking how to integrate these into your classroom experiences.

[|AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner] -- What an information fluent student should look like [|Revised Bloom's Taxonomy] -- helps teachers align objectives to assessment techniques


 * Is seeing believing? Online videos worth watching:**

[|Digital World Kids Today] -- Fast and furious mashup. Is this really kids' brains on hyperspeed? [|Digital World Teachers Today] -- So if anyone wants to know what we want to do, show them this! [|A Vision of K-12 Students Today] -- An appeal designed to inspire schools to engage and inspire students. [|Shift Happens] -- The original presentation from Karl Fisch which started many conversations. [|Did You Know 3.0?] -- An update to the original. Can you spot the changes? [|The Machine is Us/ing Us] -- Web 2.0 in just under 2 minutes. Whew! [|Information Revolution] -- More about the changing nature of Web 2.0 and how the users make the web their own. [|EPIC 2014] -- Is this the future of Google?

[|If We Didn't Have the Schools We Have Today, Would We Create the Schools We Have Today?] T. Carroll [|The Dumbest Generation? Don't Be Dumb.] S. Begley and J. Interlandi [|Is Google Making Us Stupid?] Nicholas Carr [|How Are You Using Google Reader and iGoogle?] from Classroom 2.0 blog
 * Articles worth reading:**

[|UDLibSEARCH Databases]-- a treasure trove of reliable, high-quality resources available to teachers and students at school and at home [|Springfield High School (PA) Virtual Library] -- Info-goddess Joyce Valenza's uber-rich library site [|Tne Internet Public Library] -- students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL. [|Creative Commons] -- nonprofit dedicated to helping others share and license work online. Helps unravel the complex issue of copyright, sharing, and licensing works. Provides licenses to creators of works to be applied to the item: music, video, art, text, etc.
 * Reliable Resources:**