The DNA of a 21st Century Educator

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Zaid Ali Alsagoff DNA of 21 st Century Educator

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During your lifetime you have probably experienced inspirational educators, or witnessed inspiring lectures. But, what about you? Are you such an educator? If not, why not? This presentation explores some of the ingredients top educators in the 21st century have, and how we can learn from them, and reinvent ourselves to reach our true potential as an educator.

Transcript of The DNA of a 21st Century Educator

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DNA Habits Knowledge Skills

Attitude Behavior

21st Century Educator?

Heart

Passion

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CONTENTS

Design

Empower

Assess

Reflect

Transform

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Characteristics of an Effective…

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/09/09/five-characteristics-of-an-effective-21st-century-educator/

Meris Stansbury

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Is able to discern effective vs. non-effective technology.

Anticipates the future.

Is a lifelong learner.

Fosters peer relationships.

Can teach and assess all levels of learners.

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Habits of Highly Effective…

http://www.masternewmedia.org/teaching-skills-what-21st-century-educators-need-to-learn-to-survive/

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You Believe, You Receive!

“In experiment after experiment, it has been demonstrated that when teachers

EXPECT their students to perform well, the students work hard and live up to their

teacher’s expectations.”

Brian Tracy

http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/12-habits-of-the-top-21st-century-teacher

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Habits of the Top 21st Century Teachers

1. I believe in myself, my students, and my school and transform situations by removing barriers and with my positive attitude.

2. My classroom evolves and connects with multiple audiences, peers, and cultures using both synchronous and asynchronous communications methods.

3. In my classroom, students are involved in the evolution of technology integration.

4. promote change by influencing BEHAVIOR, which I do not confuse with outcomes.

5. I connect myself to a good personal learning network.

6. I connect to myself through exercise, humor, time alone and time with family.

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Vicki Davis

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Habits of the Top 21st Century Teachers

7. I use vicarious learning and the teachable moment.

8. Learning is a habit embedded in my weekly routines.

9. I examine assessment carefully because my classroom

becomes a product of what I measure.

10. I model and discuss digital citizenship by holding students

accountable and including them.

11. I embrace multisensory learning.

12. Out of love and respect, I work hard to find and encourage

the strengths in every child.

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Vicki Davis

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Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher…

1. Create and edit digital audio

2. Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners

3. Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students

4. Exploit digital images for classroom use

5. Use video content to engage students

6. Use infographics to visually stimulate students

7. Use Social networking sites to connect with colleagues and grow professionally

8. Create and deliver asynchronous presentations and training sessions

9. Compile a digital e-portfolio for their own development

10. Have a knowledge about online security

11. Be able to detect plagiarized works in students assignments

12. Create screen capture videos and tutorials

13. Curate web content for classroom learning

14. Use and provide students with task management tools to organize their work and plan their learning

15. Use polling software to create a real-time survey in class

16. Understand issues related to copyright and fair use of online materials

17. Exploit computer games for pedagogical purposes

18. Use digital assessment tools to create quizzes.

19. Use of collaborative tools for text construction and editing

20. Find and evaluate authentic web based content

21. Use of mobile devices like tablets

22. Identify online resources that are safe for students browsing

23. Use digital tools for time management purposes

24. Learn about the different ways to use YouTube in your classroom

25. Use note taking tools to share interesting content with your students

26. Annotate web pages and highlight parts of text to share with your class

27. Use of online graphic organizers and printables

28. Use of online sticky notes to capture interesting ideas

29. Use of screen casting tools to create and share tutorials

30. Exploit group text messaging tools for collaborative project work

31. Conduct an effective search query with the minimum time possible

32. Conduct A Research Paper Using Digital Tools

33. Use file sharing tools to share docs and files with students online

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/33-digital-skills-every-21st-century.html

33 Should Have!

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Rules

1. EXERCISE - Exercise boosts brain power.

2. SURVIVAL - The human brain evolved, too.

3. WIRING - Every brain is wired differently.

4. ATTENTION - We don't pay attention to boring things.

5. SHORT-TERM MEMORY - Repeat to remember.

6. LONG-TERM MEMORY - Remember to repeat.

7. SLEEP - Sleep well, think well.

8. STRESS - Stressed brains don't learn the same way.

9. SENSORY INTEGRATION - Stimulate more of the senses.

10. VISION - Vision trumps all other senses.

11. GENDER - Male and female brains are different.

12. EXPLORATION - We are powerful and natural explorers.

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http://www.brainrules.net/

Dr. John Medina

Summary: http://sivers.org/book/BrainRules

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How do WE Nurture…

Global Graduates?

The Y-Z Generations?

Students for the Innovation Economy?

Students for jobs not yet invented?

Students’ Language Barrier to Thinking?

21st Century skills required in the workplace?

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Route 21

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/

A Roadmap For 21st Century Learning

• Critical Thinking • Problem Solving • Creativity • Innovation • Communication • Collaboration

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21st Century Educators use Technology to..

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21st Educators are Lifelong Learners!

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/06/imu-ls-10-10-ways-to-be-better-learner.html

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http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/06/oer-101-workshop-at-usm-round-2.html

Reuse/Remix Open Educational Resources

MERLOT

MIT OCW

OLI Connexions

UT OCW

CAREO SOFIA

Stanford on iTunes

Tufts OCW USU OCW

CLOE

DLORN

ARIADNE

eGranary Digital Library Wikipedia

e-Lee

Gutenberg Project

Fathom Archive

Harvey Project ICONEX

Lydia Global Repository

OOPS Open Yale Courses

WebJunction

CORE

PEOI

JHSPH OCW

OAISTER

SciQ

W3Schools

RDN

WOW!

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Infuse Creativity & STORIFY Learning!

http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/watch

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http://www.brainrules.net/

After 10 minutes, audience attention steadily drops.

Do something emotionally relevant at each 10- minute mark to regain attention (story, video, activity, question, joke, etc.)

10-Minute Rule

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Engage Students to Learn! Average

retention rate

5%

10%

20%

30%

50%

75%

Adapted from: http://www.geography.utoledo.edu/eod/Learning%20Pyramid.jpg

Lecture

Reading

Audiovisual

Demonstration

Discussion Group

Practice by Doing

TEACHING OTHERS 90%

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Inspire Deeper Questions to Infuse…

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What about a 100,000-Student Classroom?

“In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ, and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast.”

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_norvig_the_100_000_student_classroom.html

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Constructive Alignment

"Good teaching is getting most students to use the higher cognitive level processes that the more academic students use spontaneously.”

-John Biggs

http://daimi.au.dk/~brabrand/short-film/

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Use a Variety of Methods to…

Assess more !

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http://web.me.com/janherrington/AuthenticLearning/Home.html

Authentic Learning?

9 Elements of Authentic Learning: 1. Provide authentic contexts that reflect the way the knowledge

will be used in real life

2. Provide authentic tasks and activities

3. Provide access to expert performances and the modelling of processes

4. Provide multiple roles and perspectives

5. Support collaborative construction of knowledge

6. Promote reflection to enable abstractions to be formed

7. Promote articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit

8. Provide coaching and scaffolding by the teacher at critical times

9. Provide for authentic assessment of learning within the tasks.

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E-Portfolio

Embrace Rubrics & e-Portfolio to…

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Assess Learning Beyond Theory!

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21st Century Educators Continuously Reflect…

Sharing

Feedback

LEARNING

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Stian Håklev

21st Century Educators are Open Scholars!

http://www.slideshare.net/houshuang/what-it-means-to-be-an-open-scholar-and-the-future-of-scholarly-publishing

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“To be an effective 21st-century teacher,

a teacher must first possess the very same 21st-century skills that their

students are expected to have. And, in

addition to those skills, they must be able to help all of their students obtain and develop

21st-century skills.”

Mamzelle Adolphine http://engage.intel.com/thread/8412

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You Are Not Alone, Please Join Us!

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Mission: "To Rid the World of Bad Learning & Teaching!"

Are YOU a Learning Gladiator?

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There is Much More, but Time is Time!

The 21st Century Educator’s DNA covered in this presentation…

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Let’s Recap! 21st Century Educators…

Learn using a variety of tools to empower their Personal

Learning Environment (PLE).

Design interactive and engaging learning experiences

using/ remixing/ reusing OER content, rapid e-learning and social media tools wherever possible.

Empower learning environments that inspire students to

think deeper and learn more effectively.

Assess learning using a variety of methods to measure

more authentic learning.

Reflect their learning and teaching online to gain more

feedback and be part of the global learning conversation.

Transform themselves to become better educators

proactively through self-learning.

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21st Century Educators have Passion with Attitude!

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/taylor_mali_what_teachers_make.html

"Those who can't do, teach"?

Taylor Mali

I beg to differ, and here is my response on behalf of educators everywhere.

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Remember!

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

- Albert Einstein

Don’t be afraid to explore possibilities!

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Have a ZaidLearn!

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inspiring and exceptional educators around the

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JOIN THE LEARNING ADVENTURE!

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Lifelong Learning

“Seek knowledge from the cradle

to the grave” - Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)