Reading Reflection Chapter 3

    You need to think about the future, or destination of the project. You need to identify the core concepts and processes. Think about what the students are going to know after the project is complete.

    The 21^st Century skills include, skills, attitudes, and habits. Also including that the students remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.

    A team examined research; they conducted literature reviews, explored workforce trends, and interviewed educators. As a result, they produced a model that highlights Digital-Age Literacy, Inventive thinking, Communication, and High Productivity. To be information literate, person much at able to recognize when information is needed and they have to have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

    There are 8 learning functions. Ubiquity: learning inside and outside the classroom, and all of the time. Deep thinking: we might give students the courses to find raw or filtered information but they have to find ways to get a higher was of thinking. Making Things Visible and Discussable: Students need more then just instructions, we as teachers need to show them and make things easier for them to understand. Expressing Ourselves, Sharing Ideas, Building communities: give students a way to write out how they are feeling like on a blog and if old enough, sites like MySpace. Collaboration: Teaching and learning with others. Research: Teach you students different strategies for researching, not just clicking no the first thing in Google. Project management- planning and organization. Reflection and Iteration: go back a look at what you have created, look and see how your ideas revolved and grew over the course of the project.

    I think that this chapter has a lot of good information about the projects we are creating. When we begin our projects, we have to show the students the big idea so they know that they are aiming for. And I think the learning functions are very useful for not only the students for the teachers as well to guide their students.