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Lesson
Four: 21st Century Workforce Readiness
http://lone-eagles.com/social-lesson4.html
Required Submissions for Lesson Four 1. View a minimum of 5
minutes of this 49 minute exceptional Video: Cedar and Silicon http://vimeo.com/17005134 (Five minutes) 2. Explore: http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm
and review briefly the project summary and course outline. Click on
Lesson one and 3. Conduct the Jing hands-on activity listed here. You can create similar how-to
videos using free software for Mac and PCs without
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Required Submissions Checklist:
____ Create a Jing video capture and share the link via the class listserv.
____ Email your instructor on what worked, and what didnÕt and your candid feedback on this lesson.
Jing and more:
Camtasia is only for more advanced work. Many other screen capture programs exist, screenflow is one popular one.
Reflector 2 is a $14 app for PCs and Macbooks that has an airplay and record feature allowing you to create instructional videos from an iPhone or iPad.
From http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/download/ Expect newer and better mobile screen capture software to be continually evolving.
Less is More
Less
is more in our age of information overload. Attention spans are shortening, the
oral communications medium of instruction video is on the rise and reading is
diminishing. The use of web pages is on the decline,
the uses of videos and apps are on the rise. Repeated from lesson one: See the top graphic at the link
below, but donÕt feel obligated to read the article ÒThe Web Is DeadÓ: www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1
College costs are up 600% since 1980, and in question is how much
college loan debt makes sense.
Social media marketing, mobile commerce, mobile learning, and
accelerating change means the need for just-in-time searching and learning
solutions will be increasingly in demand. Your mobile device is likely to be
your conduit to what you need to know - in the near future.
The very nature
of education is changing.
Industrial age education was to prepare workers for lifelong
careers, often as factory workers. College degrees held the promise of one
career for life, perhaps as an educator in K12 or higher ed. Today, by the age of 35 one can expect
to have already held a dozen different jobs. We can be expected to be changing
jobs every few years Ð typically moving into jobs that didnÕt exist a few
years before.
High Points:
You are likely to be reading on a smart phone on a daily basis what
you didnÕt know you needed to know, via feeds from the smartest sources you and
your friends in your Òpersonal learning networkÓ can find.
Educators are no longer the ÒSage on the StageÓ but must serve as
the ÒGuide on the Side.Ó Mastery learning and facilitating peer mentoring are
made possible by a combination of new online tools, quality resources created
by others, and pedagogies (ala Khanacademy.com) Consider yourself as an info-broker challenged to identify and
deliver the very best existing rich
media instruction, from diverse global sources, to your students, with
emphasis on teaching them to find their own such learning resources, as
self-directed learners, while building effective collaboration skills with
others.
The 21st
Century Workforce Readiness Imperative:
Everyone Both
Learner and Teacher, Both Consumer and Producer,
All the Time.
Students,
starting in primary school, must learn entrepreneurship, such that
entrepreneurship will be a lifelong option. This requires self-directed
learning skills, effective online collaboration skills, and managing their
digital identity and reputation in a mature manner. Teaching creativity and the
innovation process is juxtaposed to current trends focusing on standards and
teaching to the test.
Educational
institutions are slow to change, but students with digital devices are just the
opposite; able and committed to keep each other up to the same instant of
progress.
Optional but strongly recommended:
The
Free Ebook below is a quality treatment of how one can leverage all these trends
to self-educate. This free Ebook below is a shorter version of the $10 book at
Amazon.com : DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher
Education
Free download of Edupunk's guide, sponsored by the Gates
Foundation is at this link http://www.scribd.com/doc/60954896/EdupunksGuide
See
also: http://diyubook.com/ Note how Anya is using social media to
promote herself!
Note also that
the Gates Foundation funded her in this free ebook effort which relates to the
Khan Academy video mastery learning video instruction themes. (You viewed this
video in the Welcome to this class.)
OPTIONAL:
Explore: Ning
Tutorials on How to Create a Successful Social Network
Ning
has sophisticated video tutorials on best practices for creating a social media
site: http://creators.ning.com
http://creators.ning.com/inspiration/index.php
Click
on best practices at the page above.
OPTIONAL:
View this Video:
Media
Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World
http://www.edutopia.org/media-literacy-skills-video (Seven Minutes)
Help Students Use Social Media to Empower, Not Just Connect
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-empowers-students-andrew-marcinek
Blogger Andrew Marcinek on using social media to empower students as
thinkers, learners, and collaborators.
Social Networking at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy
http://www.edutopia.org/science-leadership-academy-social-networking
Learn how principal Chris Lehmann and his colleagues use technology to run
a high school altogether differently.
How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/social-networking-how-to
Why teachers should embrace networking, and how they can use it to
improve education.
The Importance of Digital Citizenship in Social Media http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-digital-media-citizenship
Learn the fundamentals of integrating social and digital media into our
lives.
Social-Networking Sites Draw Teens In
In the largely unsupervised digital world, youths set the
rules.
http://www.edutopia.org/dg-social-networking
Edutopia discussion on social media in schools
http://www.edutopia.org/groups/administrators/6831
Lesson Feedback:
You're invited
to privately email your instructor:
1. What areas, if any, did you have trouble with during this
lesson?
2. What questions remain now that you've finished this lesson?
3. Approximately how much time did you devote to this lesson?
5. Tell your instructor what you liked best, and least, in this lesson's explorations.