Ah...a webpage that has it all...especially The 22 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher MUST HAVE! The National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) require teachers to "update" their teaching. If we don't, we won't be any help in getting our students to meet the Common Core State Standards.
So the webpage I found lists the 22 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher MUST HAVE! (click here if you somehow missed the first link...possibly you were worried about the mass amounts of snow on the way...) And then it not only lists the skills we should have but also the tools we should use to practice those skills! Possibly many of the tools are tools you might already be using!
Here are the skills in the nutshell (there's 22, so it's pretty big nutshell)...
Teachers should be able to:
1. Create and edit audio
2. Use social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners
3. Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students
4. Use digital images in the classroom
5. Use video content to engage students
6. Use infographics to visually stimulate students
7. Use social networking sites to connect with colleagues and grow professionally
8. Create and deliver asynchronous (what??) presentations and training sessions
9. Compile a digital e-portfolio for their own development
10. Be able to detect plagiarized works in students' assignments
11. Create screen capture videos and tutorials
12. Use and provide students with task management tools to organize their work and plan their learning
13. Use polling software to create a real-time survey in class
14. Understand issues related to copyright and fair use of online materials
15. Use digital assessment tools to create quizzes
16. Use digital tools for time management purposes
17. Use note taking tools to share interesting content with your students
18. Annotate web pages and highlight parts of text to share with your class
19. Use online sticky notes to capture interesting ideas
20. Use file sharing tools to share docs and files with students online
21. Create engaging mind maps
22. Leverage the power of digital storytelling in your classroom
The good news is that if you have no idea what one these really important skills that you MUST HAVE is, you can click on the link (here it is again!) and scroll to find a tool that will help you explore that particular skill.
Happy hunting!
That is a big nutshell and its a scary one as well! Sadly, I would be shocked if half of the teachers in my school even knew how to do five of these skills. Education has a lot of work to do...
ReplyDeleteHey Elena, cool blog. I think that these skills are going to take awhile to build in teachers, because eventually we'll start getting kids who grew up learning totally digitally. I think if I could create digital quizzes that then self-corrected, this would save me a LOT of time. However, I wouldn't get as big a picture of what individual students know and do not know.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for posting this! I am working hard to brush up my own skills and I am thankful for this class because without it I wouldn't have been forced to actually experiment with and try alot of different tech tools that are out there. It is so important in this day and age that students and teachers are technologically inclined. I am happy to report that I am able to do most of the things of the list, but, admittedly, I still need work!
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