Partnership for 21st Century Skills

As I scrolled through the website topic named, "Partnership for 21st Century Skills", its main focus is discussing how to intergrate technology within the classrooms in this 21st century era. Twenty first century standards, assessments, curriculum, instruction, professional development and learning environments need to be arranged in order to create a support structure that generates 21st Century effects for today's students.

The information that surprised me on this website was the topic of "Competition beats Collaboration". There is an extensive acceptance specifically in the business and high tech manufactories that inside controversy fosters change. In the survey conducted, creativity takes a clash when people in a work group battle instead of collaborate. The best creative teams are those that have the confidence to portion and discuss ideas. However, when people compete for identification, they halt sharing data. This method becomes devastating because nobody in an assembly has all of the information needed to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Again, I disagree with the fact that competition beats collaboration. Collaborating has been around for a long length of time. It has helped to bring various ideas from others when making a decision as to solving a matter. The more input, the better the outcome is what I believe.

The implication for my students based on this website would  be to help each student implement technology within their learning environment in a way that prepares them for them for the 21st Century!

Reference:

Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (n.d.). A report and mile guide for 21st century skills. Washington DC: Author. Retrieved fromhttp://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Report.pdf

Purpose A Blog Serves

Blogging has many different uses within a classroom. One of the most effective ways that I have noticed is the exhibiting of homework postings, calendars, happenings and other suitable class information. The most effective purpose of blogs in schools appears when students and teachers utilize them as publishing tools. If a teacher trust in what he or she is doing and is certain in his or her tools, it scrapes off on even the most rebellious of students. As a reflective probing teacher, I must move forward in circling back and focus at how what I have done that connects into long term goals (Ganley, 2004a).

Other benefits I believe of using a blog within the classroom, is less acceptable way of trapping the mind and affection of Kinesthetic learners. With this method, they are presented a task that deals with using their hands, and they are excited. Blogging grants the students the ability to use the computer, educating them on how to type and work with other highlights of using a computer. Anything that causes learning is fun and is a beautiful thing. Bloggers think about the world in a contrasting way because anything could become the case of the next blog.

Reference:
Ganley, B. (2004a). bgblogging:October 2004 archives. Retrieved September 25, 2005, from http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging/2004_10.html#004423.