Thursday, November 25, 2010

21st Teaching

I'm happy to see references coming out about 21st Century Teaching. As much as educators may know about the 21st learning skills, integrating them into course experience is another.

I will start here with a couple brief references because this topic will undoubtedly warrent
more than one post:

So to start -- here's a faculty site which provided professional development to this end:
http://www.cte.usf.edu/. The goals are quite modestly stated, but they are there, and the tools are there to get people started. E-learning is essential for all deliveries, given the fact e-practice is pervasive in 21st century living.

Additionally, Bloom's digital taxonomy connects learning objectives to web2.0 tools for demonstrating knowledge at different levels, and also includes the verbs related to the Web2.0 capacities.