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Buzz So What? New Forms
21st Century Skills, Literacies
& Fluency
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Educational Consultant
GloballyConnectedLearning.com
Langwitches.org/blog
Buzz
21st Century Skills, Literacies & Fluency
What does it mean
to be educated?
The
illiterate
of the
21st Century
will not be the ones
who cannot read and
write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn and
relearn. Alvin Toffler
21st Century Skills, Literacies & Fluency
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Media Literacy
Global Literacy
Global Literacy
Network Literacy
Network Literacy
Digital Citizen
Digital Citizenship
Fluency
Speaking French Sideways
Do I want to
drink a cup of
coffee with you?
Do you want to
drink a cup of
coffee with you?
Speaking Up and Down vs. Sideways
It feels
intuitive
unconscious
and smooth.
I know how to
respond to
something
unexpected.
I can relate,
communicate and
connect with others.
I don’t translate,
nor wonder what
comes first? The
verb or the noun?
I am
comfortable
&
not terrified.
I know that a
language is the
sum of words,
common history
and traditions.
“People who speak a common language are connected in more
ways than understanding the words that make it up.
• Communicate
• Collaborate
• Connect
• Create
• Critical Thinking
Skills
• Basic (reading & writing)
• Information
• Media
• Global
• Network
• Digital Citizen
Literacies • Media
• Information
• Digital Citizen
• Collaboration
• Solution
• Creativity
Fluencies
So What?
Looking for…
Clay
Shirky
Change is
not
necessary.
Survival
is
optional.
W. Edwards Deming
Social
Production
Social Networks
Media Grids
Non-Linear Learning
Five Socio-
Technology
Trends
Adapted from Stephen
Wilmarth in Curriculum21
(ASCD 2010) by Heidi
Hayes Jacobs
• Learning to Do
• Knowledge Creation
Social
Production
• Learning to Be
• Defining our identities
• How we connect with each other determines how
learning occurs (Relationships, not technologies)
Social
Networks
• Learning to Know
• Organizing, interpretation, connections &
distribution of information
Semantic Web
• Learning to be and do
• Gaming embeds Gardner’s five minds of the future
• Content not confined to linear structures
Media Grids
• Disciplines are interconnected
Non-Linear
Learning
Five
Socio-Technology
Trends
Adapted from Stephen Wilmarth’s chapter in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
21st Century Skills, Literacies & Fluency
Six New Roles to Empower
Learners
New Forms
What is a
Classroom?
Collaborators
Connected to
Global Perspective
Cross-Subject &
Grade Level
“When we Skyped with Silvia, what happens years ago, makes
more sense. She told us way more than I’d read in a textbook.
She made me put myself in Germany during the night of broken
glass.
“Skyping helps us learn.
When our class Skyped with
Silvia Rosenthal, she told us
more information about the
holocaust and WWII than a
textbook would have told
us. This makes it exciting
for us because we can see
her expressions and it
makes it more real. We can
feel her emotion.
Authentic
Students become
Teachers
Contributors
Researchers
It’s not about the Tools…It’s about the Skills
Buzz So What? New Forms
Resources
• Curriculum 21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
• Curriculum21.ning.com
• Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
• Langwitches.org/blog
Credits
• Buzz image by Clix-
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1019125
• Facebook by EscapedtoWisconsin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69805768
@N00/3292899689/
21st Century Skills, Literacies
& Fluency
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Educational Consultant
GloballyConnectedLearning.com
Langwitches.org/blog

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Editor's Notes

  1. Media Literacy
  2. Global Literacy
  3. Network Literacy
  4. Digital Safety Digital Etiquette Digital Rights & Responsibilities Digital Laws
  5. Literacy vs Fluency: To be literate is to have knowledge and competence while fluency is more…it demonstrates mastery unconsciously and smoothly (21st Century Fluency Project)
  6. Learning vocabulary & grammar only serves the purpose of being able to communicate & connect with people. The use and order of the words is transparent
  7. Clay Shirky- Cognitive Surplus
  8. Social Production Social Networks Semantic Web Media Grids Non Linear Learning Adapted from Stephen Wilmarth’s chapter in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs How does your brain respond to the bullets and summary versus the image? What do you remember better?
  9. Adapted from Stephen Wilmarth’s chapter in Curriculum21 (ASCD, 2010) by Heidi Hayes Jacobs Stephen Wilmarth in Chapter 5 Five Socio-Technology Trends in Curriculum 21
  10. Olympics with 2nd Grade Class in Canada
  11. Connected to Global Perspectives: Christopher Columbus Project