CHANGES IN EDUCATION
I have spent the last two months dealing with interesting MOOCs which have led me into a new path: I am going to spend more time on self-development and PLN . PLN stands for Personal Learning Network and I have learnt more about it after I finished my two recent courses on line with COURSERA: I have learnt more about WEB 2.0 Tools and how modern technologies are supporting teachers and learners in the process of learning. Thus everybody should be more involved in trying to implement new technologies also to face the needs of the 21st learners. In my second course with COURSERA SHAPING THE WAY WE LEARN ENGLISH I have worked on a Project and I have developed a module for my students who are expected to be working together while they are using the target language and they are more interested in what we are doing.
In my next posts I will talk about the interesting things that I have learnt: as a teacher I am required to be a good learner and also to be able to listen to my students and their needs. Today's world of education is different from mine : we are trying to help our students to become citizens in a different community. They will have to be able to work together and to use more skills, to work and decide about new approaches. Language skills and maths skills together with problem solving activities are a must. Schools are therefore required to be a different LEARNING ENVIRONMENT to meet these high demands.
Right now I have started my new MOOC course with COURSERA and it has to do with literacy matters and Common Core. What is presented is in relationship with the USA but also in my country we are going to cope with a REVOLUTION, which might be involving but also making us - as teachers - a bit worried.
I will try to follow this course to see how they are working, teachers in the USA but also in other countries: the 21st century school and education have just begun and I might work in this new content for the next 18 years.
While I was looking for more information about LITERACY I found these videos which describe what has happened and is going to change in the USA. I am going to discuss these matters in the next posts.
My PLN is also trying to see what is happening around me. I will implement my English lessons with some new ideas which might be useful for me.
ELA /LITERACY SHIFTS
Common core and Literacy
I have spent the last two months dealing with interesting MOOCs which have led me into a new path: I am going to spend more time on self-development and PLN . PLN stands for Personal Learning Network and I have learnt more about it after I finished my two recent courses on line with COURSERA: I have learnt more about WEB 2.0 Tools and how modern technologies are supporting teachers and learners in the process of learning. Thus everybody should be more involved in trying to implement new technologies also to face the needs of the 21st learners. In my second course with COURSERA SHAPING THE WAY WE LEARN ENGLISH I have worked on a Project and I have developed a module for my students who are expected to be working together while they are using the target language and they are more interested in what we are doing.
In my next posts I will talk about the interesting things that I have learnt: as a teacher I am required to be a good learner and also to be able to listen to my students and their needs. Today's world of education is different from mine : we are trying to help our students to become citizens in a different community. They will have to be able to work together and to use more skills, to work and decide about new approaches. Language skills and maths skills together with problem solving activities are a must. Schools are therefore required to be a different LEARNING ENVIRONMENT to meet these high demands.
Right now I have started my new MOOC course with COURSERA and it has to do with literacy matters and Common Core. What is presented is in relationship with the USA but also in my country we are going to cope with a REVOLUTION, which might be involving but also making us - as teachers - a bit worried.
I will try to follow this course to see how they are working, teachers in the USA but also in other countries: the 21st century school and education have just begun and I might work in this new content for the next 18 years.
While I was looking for more information about LITERACY I found these videos which describe what has happened and is going to change in the USA. I am going to discuss these matters in the next posts.
My PLN is also trying to see what is happening around me. I will implement my English lessons with some new ideas which might be useful for me.
ELA /LITERACY SHIFTS
Common core and Literacy
You should also watch this interesting video about today's changes and approaches to education in the USA:
More interesting videos can be found by following this link:
https://vimeo.com/engageny
This video can explain how the work of teachers is going to change: Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) is the term used by experts to talk about this new way for working with students.
I will be posting more in the next weeks and see what is new.
For more information you can have a look at this website:
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