Instead of asking the question "What technolgy skills must students have to face the 21st century?" should we not be asking "What thinking and literacy skills must students have to face the 21st century?" These skills are not tied to any particular sofware or technology-type, but rather aim to provide students with the thinking skill and thus the opportunity to succeed no matter what their futures hold.
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ReplyDeleteYes, this is a good question. Of course, some of the literacy skills are intimately tied in with technology, and this will only increase in the future. So, what are your answers to this question? Maybe you can link this post to the educational vision that your group is developing.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great question! I often think that many of our students know more about technology than us, but do they know how the think about the information they have access to, process it, summarize it, form an opinion on it and then write about it whether on or off line.
ReplyDeleteOnline actvities are definitely connected with higher thinking skills. We just need to give our Ss the right assignements and tools to put them into practice. Have you seen Margie´s global warming videos? they are a great toold to awake Ss crtical thinking and arguing skills.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Kira that the task is more important than the technology for developing critical thinking skills.
What are critical thinking skills?
So the task is the key here!. Depending on what we want our students to develop, the task has to fullfill that objective. But I do believe that before starting using technology with our students we have to make sure they know the basic skills to.. for example reflect on a given topic. And it's better to do it better in a normal face to face environment to later use it in the online one.
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