Big Ideas in Education Blog

Tag: Knowledge Building

  • Information Literacy in the 21st Century Classroom

          Information literacy skills are of paramount importance in the 21st Century. Information Literacy is an all encompassing term that includes traditional reading, writing, oral communication, digital literacy, media literacy, digital citizenship and higher order thinking skills. Higher order thinking skills includes critical thinking, and are are necessary for all curriculum areas and…

  • Form Follows Function: Structures in Education: Building Frameworks for Ed-Tech Integration

    I was facilitating student learning about structures with the Grade 3 classes, when an idea struck me. I realised that just as we need to consider many key factors in building the strongest and most useful structures in our society, we need to consider similar factors to build technology frameworks to support edtech integration in our schools. Structures are…

  • 8 Ingredients for increasing Literacy and 21st Century Skills

    8 Ingredients for increasing Literacy and 21st Century Skills.

  • Acquire, Manipulate, Process, Present: My 4 Steps for Knowledge Building

    The education sector essentially uses a variety of programs and strategies to add significant value to the lives of all learners. Each one depends upon unique interactions of both the educator and the learner. We are confronting the new challenges that schools are facing in the 21st century. These include, but not limited to, technology…

  • 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…

  • Blogging in Education

    The continual and unrelenting in-flux of 21st Century Technologies into our realm of communicating, sharing and obtaining information, has influenced the type of Literacy Skills that students need. As a result, it has never been more important for students to learn how to critically analyse and integrate new digital literacies into learning. This includes the use…