Digital Learning: Strengthening and Assessing 21st Century Skills, Grades 5-8

Preface: Digital Age Learning Requires Digital Age Skills xvii

1 Digital Age Learning: Why Now? Why Me? 1

2 Rethinking Best Practices and Digital Age Learning 23

3 The Digital Learning Process 33

4 Do Try This at Home! Checking Your Digital Age Teaching

and Learning Tool Kit 53

5 Eyes on the Prize! 58

6 Walking the Talk: Evolving Your Practice with NETS for Teachers 141

Appendix A: Connect Your Classroom and Real Life: Career Clusters 156

Appendix B: Multidisciplinary Project: Our Community Fifty Years from Now 165

Appendix C: How to Use the DVD 169

Notes 174

Index 176

DVD Contents

1 English Projects

English 01 Who’s Selling Us Now?

English 02 Who’s Telling the Truth? Whose Truth Is Being Told?

English 03 Web Reader’s Guide

English 04 Learning to Swim in a Sea of Data

English 05 Literature Circles Meet Web 2.0

2 Math Projects

Math 01 Same Problems, Different Answers?

Math 02 How to Lie with Statistics

Math 03 Making Math Meaning, in Teams

Math 04 Down the Drain

Math 05 Redesign Your School in Green

3 Science Projects

Science 01 Do You Hear What I Hear?

Science 02 Troubled Waters

Science 03 On Solid Ground?

Science 04 If Habitats Could Talk

Science 05 Be Earth’s Biographer

4 Geography Projects

Geography 01 Nominate Local Landmarks

Geography 02 Map Your Community!

Geography 03 Lands Like Ours

Geography 04 Invent to Save Lives!

Geography 05 Inform Your Local Leaders

5 Resources

Digital Learning Trends Template (spreadsheet)

Digital Learning Trends Sample (spreadsheet)

PrePost NETS S Assessment

TPACK Activity Types (spreadsheet)

Notes (DVD version in Word)

6 Video Clips

1 Chris Dede Interviews

1 Intro Chris Dede.mov

2 Chris Dede—Vision.mov

3 Chris Dede—Team Learning.mov

4 Chris Dede—Connected Teaching Model.mov

2 David Thornburg Interviews

1 David Thornburg—Online Learning.mov

2 David Thornburg Creativity.mov

3 David Thornburg Math Projects.mov

4 David Thornburg Science and Career Clusters.mov

5 David Thornburg STEM.mov

3 Digital Learning and TPACK Activity Types

4 Doug Johnson Interview

5 Kari Stubbs Interview

6 Margaret Riel Interview

7 MultiDisciplinary Project Videos

8 Tina Rooks Interviews