Scaffolding+for+Success+in+a+Digital+World

Session Description:
//21////st// //Century learners are different - fundamentally different, neurologically and behaviorally different.//

21st Century learners like to learn contextually. They like to work collaboratively. They use higher order thinking skills and are deeply engaged with technology. They learn best when their learning activities are based around real time, real world tasks. They value assessment that are transparent and fair; timely and appropriate; qualitative not just quantitative; formative not just summative.

This workshop shows how to engage 21st Century Learners using; · collaboration, · higher order thinking skills, · contextual learning, · technology, · transparent and fair assessment, · timely and appropriate feedback

Using commonly available tools like wikis, social bookmarking and online presentation tools, we will develop straightforward engaging units of work.

Participants will work through the development of a project based unit of learning and structure tasks and assessments that are clear, transparent and formative. Teachers will work through the process of developing rubrics for the different aspects of the learning tasks they are developing.

This workshop will introduce commonly available and user friendly Web 2.0 tools and adapt these to suit the needs of the learner. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is used as a frame work for unit development, higher order thinking skills and the development of assessment tools which provide simple and appropriate feedback for student growth and development. You will learn 1. Formative and summative assessment 2. 4D's approach to project based learning 3. Rubric development

Learning outcomes in detail 1. Understanding 21st Century Learners and relate this to how they learn. 2. Introducing Bloom's Digital Taxonomy 3. 4 D's approach to project & process based learning 4. A sample tool set - web 2.0 tools 5. Assessment 6. Project based unit/task development.
 * · Background
 * · Benjamin Bloom
 * · Anderson & Krathwohl
 * · Digital Adaptation & significance
 * 1) Define
 * 2) Design
 * 3) Do
 * 4) Debrief
 * Social bookmarking
 * Collaboration tools
 * Wiki
 * Online presentation tools
 * Formative vs Summative
 * Rubric development

Presenter Bio: Andrew Churches, Auckland, New Zealand
Andrew Churches is a classroom teacher and ICT enthusiast. He passionately believes that to prepare our students for the future, we must prepare them for change, teach them to question and think, to adapt and modify, to sift and sort. Andrew teaches at Kristin School, an independent school in Auckland, New Zealand. He has been deeply involved in the school's mobile computing program. This program reflects the future that our students and children will be entering into with ubiquitous portable computing and an increasingly digital world.

Andrew is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, this year presenting an institute at ASB unplugged in Mumbai, a workshop and presentation at ISTE in Denver and keynotes in Auckland and Sydney, Australia. He is also a workshop leader for the International Baccalaureate organization. Outside of school, Andrew is an outdoor instructor and an adventure enthusiast. He enjoys sharing and presenting his work, research, thoughts and musings. He is an edublogger, tweeter, wiki author and innovator. In 2008 and 2009, Andrew's wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublogs Best wiki awards. His Blog, also called Educational Origami, was nominated for the best resources sharing blog award. He is a regular contributor to a number of websites and blogs including Techlearning, Spectrum Education magazine and the Committed Sardine Blog, as well as his own edorigami blog. Andrew has refined Bloom's taxonomy to be more inclusive of digital media creating Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.