Tag: 21st Century Technology

• Merging Literacies in the 21st Century

  Let’s learn together about how to promote literacy in the 21st century. Merging traditional literacy with digital literacy and other literacies.

  Deborah McCallum

  March 11, 2014

  Big Ideas in Education

  21st Century Technology, Big Ideas in Education, digital literacy, Literacy, love of reading, reading, techhubs

• It is not about Technology. It is about Pedagogy.

    In this era of rapid evolution of informational technology, new pedagogies are necessary to meet the demands of our connected world. This includes providing equal access and opportunity for students to partake, share and build knowledge in virtual spaces. Educators are creators, facilitators, curators and collaborators of knowledge in the 21st century, and technology plays a […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 25, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Ed-Tech, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology

  21st Century Technology, Big Ideas in Education, deep learning, edtech, education, Educational Technology, knowledge, Knowledge Building, Learning, new pedagogies for deep learning, Pedagogy, professional development, schemas, Student learning, teaching

• New Pedagogies needed for Edtech Integration

  Technology has always existed, and there is nothing really new to teach our students. If we can consider this argument for a moment, and consider the implications of what it means for Education. If technology has always existed and evolved, then learning has also had to evolve across time and space. The newest and rapidly […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 22, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Ed-Tech, Educational Leadership, Educational Technology

  21st Century Technology, Big Ideas in Education, edtech, Educational Technology, Learning, New Pedagogies, new pedagogies for deep learning, Pedagogy, Student learning

• The Psychology behind helping students to ‘Connect the Dots’ to the Future

  As Steve Jobs once said: You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the […]

  Deborah McCallum

  June 8, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Big Ideas in Education, Cognitive Psychology

  21st Century Technology, cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Digital footprints, higher order thinking skills, metacognition, Technology in Education

• 6 Reasons to Promote 21st Century Skills vs 21st Century Tech

  “Any educator that aims at completeness must be at once theoretical and practical, intellectual and moral.” Aldous Huxley, Words and Their Meaning, 1940. There are many skills that go into creating that ‘complete’ learning experience that we want for our students. Theory, practical, intellectual and moral principles all play important roles in the development of […]

  Deborah McCallum

  April 24, 2013

  21st Century Learning, Learning Skills

  21st Century Education, 21st Century skills, 21st Century Technology, Aldous Huxley, Big Ideas in Education, digital citizenship, edtech, education, Education Technology, Learning Skills, Media Literacy, Pedagogy, Plato, Skill, Socrates, Technology