21st Century Education

As I viewed the website http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php several things grabbed my attention. The first was the way the information was presented. It was all easy to read and in terms that even those not in education could understand. Information was easy to locate and informative. Another was the corporations that are involved in putting this site together and working on bringing education into the 21st century. I was surprised at how there are so few states that are working on this. I would like to believe that there are more states out there working on standards that would address the 21st century. I found the mission statement to be very enlightening, to know that there are those out there who know what our students need and are working to get them this. I found the tools and resource section to be very helpful. The link for Route 21 was very interesting. I enjoyed the videos that were presented. This was another site that was easy to navigate and gather information on. The framework that the designers presented was also very informative. It gave a good description of what our students should be learning. After taking time to navigate through this site and several of their links I truly believe that as a teacher I must do more to make sure that my students are learning how to survive in the 21st century. I must include more technology based learning and give the students more opportunities to use these technologies. It is our responsibility as educators to ensure that our students are getting everything they need to be successful citizens in the 21st century society.

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Blogging in the classroom

How can I use blogs in the content that I teach? I work with emotionally disabled middle school students. I teach all academic subjects so I am sure there is at least one that I could use blogs with. The first one that comes to mind would be to creat a homework blog. I would do this for math. I have noticed that even though the students understand the concept in class when they go to do it by themselves they forget how to do it so the result is, I don't get homework back. The students could blog their questions and I would go on and answer them. I would have to set up a certain time that their questions would have to be posted and some of my students do not have access to computers. However the students would also be able to help each other, if one student understood what they were suppose to do, then maybe they could explain it in a different way than I did, which could help the other student understand the content. By using a blog to do this the students would be able to show off what they know and this would also enhance the lesson by allowing the information to "sink in" and then get it again when they check the blogs at night.