21st+Century+Skills

[|Educating the Net Generation] - an ebook with embedded hyperlinks [|Framework for 21st Century Learning] - key elements of 21st century learning [|10 Tips] for Creating a 21st Century Classroom Experience [|Engaging Learners with Cell Phones] - 10 ideas for using cell phones

Educational Origami - this is a very complete wiki that incorporates Bloom's Taxonomy into 21st Century Learning and Teaching Assessing 21st Century Learning below:

**Higher Order Thinking.**
Examinations do have a place. A good well structured examination will assess higher order thinking. Examinations can also gain a measure of the the students written literacy/fluency. However some examinations only test lower order thinking skills. If we were to look at the keywords commonly associated with lower order thinking (Bloom's Taxonomy) they are: How often do we see these keywords forming a majority of the content of an examination. Examinations should also include: 21st Century assessments must be inclusive of higher order thinking. Necessary to in higher order thinking are the lower order elements of recall and understanding. To be able to analyse, evaluate or create we must be able to understand, remember and apply. = =
 * list (Remembering)
 * state (Remembering) [[image:blooms_revised_taxomony.jpg width="183" height="222" align="right" link="http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen?bhcp=1"]]
 * identify (Remembering)
 * name (Remembering)
 * describe (Remembering)
 * comment (Understanding)
 * discuss (Understanding)
 * explain (Understanding)
 * exemplify (Understanding)
 * compare (Analyse)
 * analyse (Analyse)
 * evaluate (Evaluate)
 * judge (Evaluate)
 * review (Evaluate)
 * design (Create)
 * constructing (Create)
 * devise (Create)
 * critque (Evaluate)
 * plan (Create)
 * develop (Create)

//(Andrew Churches, Curriculum Manager Computer Studies and ICT PD Cluster co-director//
//Albany Auckland)//

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