Self-Evaluation

In my opinion the most important skills for 21st Century learning are critical thinking skills, communicating, collaborating, solving problems, and making decisions. The core subjects will still be necessary, but a shift to these higher level knowledge skills will be vital. Technology skills will be important to a new learning environment, but it will be secondary to the other skills. We still need to teach content, but in a different way.

Some digital tools that I will use to bring about 21st Century learning are VoiceThreads, Wikis, Blogs, Google Docs, and Web 2.0 tools.

I to plan implement many of the things I learned from this class. I have an excellent start on contacts for collaboration projects. I also want to use Blogs and Wikis with my students. Getting my students to think and solve problems is going to be a goal of mine.

I didn't create more than I consumed, but I had the chance to get a taste of several new activities and how to use them in my classroom.

The sharing in class was great--I enjoyed having a chance to hear what my peers thought about different topics. Hearing information from different perspectives is a learning experience in itself.

I enjoyed reflecting digitally and it was nice to get comments from others. I also learned from reading other people's blog. It is something I think my students will benefit from.

The time we had to explore new tools and read different information was helpful. Time went quickly, but I was glad I had an opportunity to look at some of the different technology and tools available. It was also nice to have the others share what tools they found. I plan to incorporate a "Share Your Knowledge Day" once a month so students can also tell their classmates about great technology sites and/or tools.

I have started to think differently about how students learn and how I can incorporate different activities to foster their growth. I also really like the idea that in the Conceptual Age we are getting back to High Touch and the need to empathize with others. How can putting people first be a bad thing.


My thinking has changed on what is important