Show What You Know: ePortfolios for 21st Century Learners
2011; Project Innovation Austin; Volume: 45; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2691-3887
AutoresDonna Herring, Charles E. Notar,
Tópico(s)Higher Education Learning Practices
ResumoePortfolio, using LiveText, as a publishing tool has students in a safe environment to research, read, write, collaborate, and publish in an engaging and motivating manner. Introduction Extensive research has been conducted by leading organizations to identify 21st Century Skills for today's learner. Partnership For 21st Century Skills categorizes the six key elements of 21st century learning as: Core Subjects, 21st Century Content, Learning and Thinking Skills, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Literacy, Life skills, and 21st Century Assessments. EnGauge 21st Century Skills identifies four key clusters as follows: Digital-Age Literacies, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, and High Productivity. Comparisons of the two studies are shown in the following table: While the major categories identified by the two studies are different, the skill sets are very much the same and the implications for 21st century schools point to a common goal: We must place high school reform as a top priority if we are to prepare students to succeed in life, in school, and in the workplace. question: will the 21st century learner need in order to demonstrate identified skills necessary for the 21st century? Key Findings role media plays in the lives of our kids is enormous. TIME Magazine reports that young people live media-saturated lives. They spend nearly 6.5 hours per day using media, during which time they are exposed to more than 8.5 hours per day of media messages, a result of the fact that a quarter of the time that kids use media, they use two or more media simultaneously. (Rideout, 2005) Almost 75 million people have space on MySpace.com and the site is gaining an average of 200,000 users per day. Del Mar College has now blocked the site from the college server because the heavy traffic to MySpace was slowing down Internet speed on campus computers. (Associated Press, 2006) MySpace (www.myspace.com) is only one of the popular social networking sites. Others include Facebook (www.facebook.com), Friendster (www.friendster.com), Live-Journal (www.livejournal.com), and Xanga (www.xanga.com). While none of these sites can compare to the number of MySpace users, they certainly are worth noting. Facebook alone reports over 17 million users. As of March 2005, a new blog is established every 2.2 seconds. That calculates to 38,000 new blogs every day. Bloggers post approximately 5.8 new articles every second, roughly 500,000 new posts a day. This is content that is being added to the human knowledge bank, and it comes from people and the reflections on their experiences. (Warlick, 2005) The number of people around the world who use Wikipedia regularly has soared over the past year, and the combined projects now receive about 21 million hits daily. More and more people search Wikipedia every day for information and the simple joy of learning something new. Students turn to Wikipedia regularly to help them with projects and reports, and it has been cited as a source by newspapers and courts of law. (NEH Narrative update, 2004) Approximately 14 million iPods were sold in the fourth quarter of 2005. This was a leap from 4.5 million in the same period of 2004, according to Steve Jobs. sales included eight million of the new video iPods launched in mid-October of 2006. (RTE Business, 2006) Implications for Education Today's kids are media savvy. They are spending as much as one-fourth of the day using media and for two of those hours, they are using more than one type of media at the same time. commonality of what they are using is that it is a personal device. They own cell phones, ipods, TV's, VCR's, DVD players, and computers. devices are personal devices. What can educators learn from this? First, if we are to make technology a useful tool in the lives of our students, we must make personal devices available to all students. …
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