Session+Overview

In this session you will learn what Web 2.0 means as well as how using these tools will help teach to the new Colorado State Standards.

This session will also introduce you to:
 * [|Wikispaces (wikispaces.com)>]
 * [|VoiceThread (voicethread.com)>]
 * [|Delicious Bookmarks (delicious.com)>]
 * [|Jog the Web (jogtheweb.com)>]
 * [|Xtimeline (xtimeline.com)>]
 * [|Animoto (animoto.com)]

WHY WEB 2.0??
QUOTE: "The term //personal learning environment// (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms that learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals. PLEs represent a shift away from the model in which students consume information through independent channels such as the library, a textbook, or an LMS, moving instead to a model where students draw connections from a growing matrix of resources that they select and organize.

In an environment where information is ubiquitous and needs only to be located, there is a greater premium on skills that support fast and **//accurate access to information//** and on the **//ability to assess that information//**. In this regard, teaching is less a matter of data transmission and more a **//collaborative exercise in collection, orchestration, remixing, and integration of data into knowledge building//**. The goal for the student shifts from a need to collect information to a need to draw connections from it—to **//acquire//** it, **//disseminate//** it, and **//collaborate//** in its use. Furthermore, the use of PLEs may herald a greater emphasis on the role that metacognition plays in learning, **//enabling students to actively consider and reflect//** upon the specific tools and resources that lead to a deeper engagement with content to facilitate their learning." (abstract from __7 Things You Should Know About Personal Learning Environments (ID: ELI7049))__



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And to be truly overwhelmed check out this directory of Web 2.0 applications [|here]

= COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION = From CDE Draft standards: (to be adopted December 2009) [] This version of state standards will include **four changes** ; 1) adding 21 st century skills, 2)ensuring fewer, clearer and higher standards, 3) adding early childhood, 21st century skills and Readiness Competencies expectations, and 4) mastering concepts and skills….not facts. Each expectation also has an evidence outcome for a student to make meaning of the knowledge and //prove// how they know it. This is intended to engage the student and help them find relevance in the study. The 21st century skills are a part of this evidence element. **// Design Feature 1: 21 //****// st //****// Century Skills //**
 * // "The four important design features… //**

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The speed with which information, business, culture and new knowledge now moves is a new challenge for all of us. Unlike the historical two decade-long apprenticeships of the Renaissance or the understanding that a person stays in a job for a lifetime, shifts in communication, art, technical sectors and the marketplace now demand that our students be nimble and anticipate problems, solve critical issues and work with others in effective and ethical ways, and function under faster time pressures. Retaining only one body of facts for life does not work anymore. The eight to five workdays have been replaced by twenty-four hour schedules. New skills are needed to thrive under these conditions. “21 st century skills” is a term that most commonly resonates as a way to describe the skills necessary to respond and lead well in a globally-based culture. Research (21 st Century Partnership, SCANS report, EPIC, College Board, etc.) points to the importance of five essential skills. These five include **problem solving/critical thinking, information management, collaboration, self direction and innovation**. These skills are prominently embedded in the new standards and change the original version from academic content standards to essential concepts and skill standards. ======