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Catering for 21st Century
Thinking Skills…
Reflections on conceptual
Reflections on conceptual
understanding and
application in the
classroom and beyond
BIG IDEA: Students are finding analysis harder in the ‘google world’. Strategies to help prioritise information, critically evaluate and think creatively are skills needed
for effective synthesis to prove understanding
Outcome: Reflect on teaching and learning strategies
Outline:
1)Analysis
2) The challenge of synthesis
3) Student self-evaluation and proving knowledge in assessment situations
Just to get us thinking… ‘The Scarlatti Tilt’
DO NOW:
Take the perspective of the police officer in the
story below and hypothesise what happened?
"It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin." That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver. (from Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970)
DO LATER: How do you come to your conclusion?
What this exercise teaches students:
That the way we read and evaluate information is based on our values and preconceptions
To question the way we accept text types we are familiar with- How has this become a famous ‘short story’?
To be conscious and critical of the media we consume not just accept it
Voicing an opinion is crucial to be active in the learning process and this skill is perhaps more important than ever
Summary of 21st century skills:
Ways of thinking : Creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and learning
Ways of working: Communication and collaboration
Tools for working:. Information and communications technology (ICT) and information literacy
Skills for living in the world: Citizenship, life and career, and personal and social responsibility
From Assessment & Teaching of 21st century skills: http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-21st-century-skills/
Analysis is more important than ever due to the multitude of media around us
Sir Ken Robinson
on
Changing
Education
paradigms
Useful analysis templates :
6 Cs source analysis:
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/pdf/6cs_primary_source.pdf
Document analysis worksheets (need to be adapted) http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
http://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/gmurphy/Soc120/Media%20Literacy%20Worksheet.pdf
Primary source analysis resources http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
Why this is not enough anymore:
Howard Gardner outlines in 5 minds for the future, skills needed to succeed in the 21st century:
1.The disciplined mind
2. The synthesising mind
3. The creating mind
4. The respectful mind
5. The ethical mind
Notions of fixed intelligence have been
challengedNew Kinds of Smart by Bill Lucas and Guy Glaxton argue that the school system still caters for a fixed idea of what can be achieved, rather than viewing it as infinite.
Synthesis:
Real world observations and interviews
Reading of critical scholarship tasks e.g ‘Socratic circle’
EXPERIENTIALLEARNING
Perspective role play activities
LEARNING TO APPLY THE METALANGUAGE
WRITING TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
Interactive graphic organisers
Explicit use of ‘I’ in opinion based tasks before making it objective
Active citizenship tasks to enhanceUnderstanding of Social justice
Guiding ‘light bulb’ moments from fun
Fakebook
InteractiveTimelinesDipity.com
Google SketchUp
Google Earth
Edmodo
Itunes U
Music video analysis
satire
Other tools for synthesis:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/printouts/-
+ Graphic organiser templates plus interactive links for students to create and save their work if using laptops
Collaborative exercises to plan group responses
www.wordle.net- creating word banks for topics
Ask students to prepare an interactive ‘cheat sheet’ for an extended response. Before attempting a response, students critique each other’s cheatsheets for how effective their notes were for memory recall. They then combine these strategies to prepare a collaborative ‘cheat sheet’ on google docs with live edits and attempt the question.
Evaluation strategies for students:
1) Encouraging effective note writing from the outset in class tasks (e.g making individual notes make sense using a variety of visual and chunk strategies)
2) Peer evaluation of practise responses against past paper marking criteria
3) Research essays incorporating media file activities and content analysis for deep learning and conceptual understanding
4) Active citizenship ‘create’ tasks spanning digital and traditional text types
One last thought for students and us alike…
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.””
Sir Ken Robinson – Creativity expert