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What are Web 2.0 classroom tools?  

According to EDC (2010), "Web 2.0, a term we use almost everyday, is actually an ambiguous concept referring to a large and shifting set of technological tools" (p. 2).

 

  1. Tools that create or support a virtual learning environment.

  2. Tools that support communication and cultivate relationships.

  3. Resources to support teaching and learning.

  4. Tools enabling students to create artifacts representing what they are learning (EDC, 2010).

What are 21st Century Learning Skills?

 

 

  • Critical Thinking

  • Creative Thinking

  • Collaborating

  • Communicating

Creative Thinking Skills

From the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Framework;

  • Use a wide range of idea creation techniques

  • Create new and worthwhile ideas

  • Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts

  • Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively

  • Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives

  • Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas

  • View failure as an opportunity to learn

 

 

Critical Thinking Skills

From the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Framework;

  • Analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs

  • Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view

  • Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments

  • Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis

  • Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes

Communication and
Collaboration Skills

From the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Framework;

  • Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts

  • Listen effectively to decipher meaning

  • Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g., to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade).

  • Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness

Web 2.0 classroom tools can have a profound effect on learning. This website is a resource for teachers to help them infuse technology in the classroom that promote creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking.  It is my hope that the online resources might encourage teachers to try tools they have never considered using.
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