Self- Evaluation

In your opinion, what are the most important skills for 21st Century learning?
story telling, being creative, making global connections.
What are the most important technology skills to infuse into your learning environment? (Feel free to cite the NETS*S and/or the P21 Framework)
We must have the core subjects at the base of the learning. But we must be able to add in life & career skills, learning and innovative skills, and technology skills.

Tell some ways, via digital tools, you have learned to:
• Create/Innovate - VoiceThreads
• Communicate/Collaborate - google docs, wikis
• Problem-Solve/Critically Think, etc… google earth, thinking how to change your curriculum to include collaborative learning

Changes you can implement TODAY in your teaching (as a result of this class) (don’t necessarily have to be technology-related) - Have the kids make more decisions as far as how they present their know of a topic, especially culminating activities.

Assess yourself and your learning journey this week. Did you…?
• Create more than you consumed? -No, but I did come up with lots of different activities to use various Web 2.0 tools on.
• Contribute to a collective/shared body of knowledge? - yes, I felt that a lot of great ideas came from our group discussions and from the guest speaker D. Schmit
• Participate in digital dialogue? - yes especially through the class blog - I am still toying with the idea of how to best use blogging in my classes, but do know that I do what to incorporate it.
• Use self-directed or discovery learning? (find some answers on your own) - Yes, it is really nice to just sit down and search for classroom ideas. This kind of "forced" me to do the searching I always leave to another time. It also paid off because I was able to find 2 lessons that I really like and plan to use.
Please try to give specific examples of all of the above.

Finally, did you “Think Different”?Yes, especially with the topics from our textbook that we went over. It made me think about different aspects of learning, especially things like story telling, empathy and design.
Or, how has your thinking changed (if at all) as a result of taking this course?