21st Century Literacy Classroom - so far

Earlier this year I planned out how I would attempt to implement 21st century literacy in my classroom.  I wrote it as a final requirement for graduate credit through the K12 Online Conference.  It also requires an evaluation of the plan.  The year’s not over, but here it is.  I actually intended to do this earlier, but my blog went down completely, then still had missing categories after I got it back up.  The blog is back!  What is School 2.0? lives again!  Woohoo! 

I also had to delay because I didn’t get computers into my room until late November, 1/3 of the way through the school year.  It is a little hard to integrate technology into the classroom, if you don’t have technology in the classroom.  Yes, I know other teachers do it all the time.  It’s called a computer lab.  We did learn in the computer lab the online safety part of Digital Citizenship.  We used Netsmatzkids and MrGruff.org.  Both are great sites for teaching primary students about online safety and avoiding cyberbullying.

Now that we are up and running, we have a 2:1 student:computer ratio…kind of.  I explained in a post last summer that the I would be getting thin client computers in my classrooms.  The disadvantage of their inexpensive terminals is that they all share on processor and one internet connection.  Flash web sites, videos, and any programs beyond Office, really bog them down.  However, they work just fine for most Web 2.0 tools.

That brings you up to speed on where we are as of a couple weeks ago.  I’ll tell you in the next post how our 21st Century Literacy Classroom has gone up to now.

Here is the beginnings of a graphic to help explain/represent the 4 cornerstones I plan to use for our 21st Century Literacy Classroom.

1. Digital Citizenship
2. Critical Reading
3. Authentic Writing
4. Global Collaboration

It needs clipart/images.  Any suggestions?

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K12 Online Conference

 If you attend no other education conferences this year, you should attend this one.  The k-12 Online conference is a completely online conference (you can attend it at home in your pajamas) that focuses innovative ways to use web 2.0 tools and technologies used to improve learning.  The preconference keynote today is again delivered by the excellent David Warlick.  The conference will officially run for two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26.  It’s better live, because you can interact, but if you miss it, you can still enjoy the podcasts recorded  by the presenters and conveners.   You definately don’t want to miss this.

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