Sara's reading reflection #3

When you think of a "big idea" for a project, make it into your own. Your big idea has to do with a concept that is for a project so you want to make it known to other people to help you out. Think of why these concepts are important and how you can make it interesting to your students and reach out to the community for help. Students and teachers also should keep to fit in 21st century skills. 21st century skills help think beyond your skills, attitudes and habits. This skill uses higher-order thinking skills which includes analyzing, evaluating and creating plans. This is the concept of moving from lower-order to higher order. 21st century literacy is how well you can show yourself through certain skills. How you think, communicate, perform skills and plan is part of 21st century literacy. This prepares young aged students to work on their speaking skills and collaborating with other students to better their performance for projects or whatever they are assigned in class. This also prepares you for the future and what job you're going to have. Being independent, aware and productivity sums up what literacy is. Ubiquity is a good way for students to get a feel for different technology and web-based programs to help themselves improve technique and for learning. Deep learning is pretty much high order thinking where they have to be on top of their game to perform tasks and think outside the box. Making things visible and discussable is good because some people learning visually and many people learn by discussing topics. Pictures and graphical representations mean so much than people think. Expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community is the fourth learning function. Sharing ideas is great for students because they use myspace, facebook, and twitter to talk about their day and just to express themselves. This allows searching and using the web to share things. Collaboration is probably one of the most top rated learning function for me because working together is the best way to sum up more ideas. You earn at the same time others learn because you are exchanging ideas. Research is also important because you have to know what type of search engine you're using and which ones will give you a legit website to use. Project management helps students and teachers manage time, source and feedback. Everyone has to have their own way of organizing all their information so that they can plan off of that. Reflection and Iteration is a good way of going back to your information and searching the past for answers. That sounds so cheesy but it is a good way to see how far you've come from the beginning and all that information can help you out in the end. These concepts could be so beneficial to me because i work with two other people that are in my group. We all have a blog to post our work and reading reflections. This helps our project because all of us post helpful tips and websites that we could always go back to and look at.