Powerful Ingredients for Learning: 21st Century Learning Skills

Professional Development with the district's LMS's led by Wes Fryer

Kids most at risk in the “real” face-to-face world are the kids who are most at risk in the cyber world. We, as educators, must be teaching responsible digital citizenship!

Big Ideas:
1. We don’t consider someone LITERATE who can read but not write, yet many people today don’t write/create/publish with a computer (Mitch Resnik)
2. Information literacy is NOT sufficient--we need to focus on COMMUNICATION, THOUGHTFULNESS, and EMPATHY (Michael Wesch)
3. Creativity is VITAL--without creation there is NO creativity (Wesley Fryer)
4. Interactivity is not enough - kids need to become CREATORS and MAKERS (Mitch Resnik)
5. We don't just use English in Language Arts - same should go for digital expression (Mitch Resnik)
6. Expressive environments need to have low floors and high ceilings - AND thick walls (Mitch Resnik)
7. We need to focus on helping students learn how to Think creatively, Reason systematically, Collaborate with others (Mitch Resnik)

NETS (National Education Technology Standards) for Students