What are your 21st century tools?
Spent yesterday with a small group of teachers talking about 21st century literacy skills. We had a great conversation early in the day about what that really looks like and why students (and teachers!) need to be literate in different ways.
Much of the afternoon was spent hands-on, learning new tools to help teachers and students find, evaluate, share and organize information in the 21st century. It was fun to watch teachers helping one another learn new things!
But it did get me thinking. The tools they were learning were tools that I had suggested.
I’m curious. What tools do you use to find, evaluate, share and organize information?
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Here are some of the most popular tools we have used this year:
Wiki — http://collaborationnation.wikispaces.com
Blog — http://pbogush.edublogs.org
Podcast — podomatic and gcast — ex http://collaborationnation.wikispaces.com/Assignment+due+November+21st
Voicethread
Viddler — http://www.viddler.com/collaborationna/videos/
Skype
Wow! I get to follow Paul? Ok, here goes…
My students have been giving keynote conversations with groups of teachers across KS lately.
Here’s our “handout” which we refuse to provide on paper. We use many more tools than this, but these are the ones we use nearly every day.
http://tinyurl.com/6y8cne
Paul, I’ve not seen Viddler. Looks pretty cool. Ginger’s page of her kids tools can provide all of us a blueprint of what’s possible.
Thanks for your ideas!
glennw