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New Literacies & Project-Based Inquiry:

Collaborating Locally & Globally

Hiller A. SpiresProfessor

NC State University

Since 2007

CED Delegation to Beijing 2007

US Asia Conference Board 2008

NC/China Summit 2008, 2010, 2012

Chinese Scholar Junzheng Zhang 2009

New Literacies Institutes Beijing 2010, 2013Student Summer/Winter Camps 2011-2013

Beijing Inst. for Science & Technology 2011

Chinese Scholar Professor Dan Li 2013Partnership with Suzhou N. A. High School

My Involvement with China

Teachers from US & China Share Perspectives on the Importance of Teaching 21st Century Skills

(Spires, Morris, & Zheng, 2013)

Spires, Morris & Zhang, 2012

Having Our Say: US & Chinese Teachers’

Perceptions

2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

High-speed, stable, consistent internet connection

Globally Competent & Civic Minded

STEM & STEAM Knowledgeable

Creative Problem Solvers & Critical Thinkers

Effective Communicators & Collaborators

How the demand for skills has changedEconomy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US)

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Valued Performances for Now & the Near Future

Expert thinking and problem solving involves effective pattern matching based on detailed knowledge. The set of skills used by the stumped expert to decide when to give up on one strategy and what to try next.

Complex communication requires the exchange of vast amounts of verbal and nonverbal information. The information flow is constantly adjusted as the communication evolves unpredictably.

How do you Problem Solve & Collaborate?

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Life and Career Skills

Learning and Innovation Skills—4Cs

Critical thinking - CommunicationCollaboration - Creativity

Information,Media, and Technology

Skills

Core Subjects—3RsAnd 21st Century Themes

http://www.p21.org/

Embracing the 3 Rs + 4 Cs

Toward a New Learning Ecology

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Old Learning Ecology

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New Global Learning Ecology

Technological Pedagogical Content

Knowledge (TPACK)

Adapted from Mishra & Koehler, 2006

TechnologicalKnowledge

ContentKnowledge

PedagogicalKnowledge

Context

Project Based Inquiry (PBI):Process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem,or challenge

Teacher’s Content Knowledge:Expertise in English, History Physics, Calculus, etc.

Technology Tools:AudacityAnimatoPreziFlipGridWikispacesWeeblyVoki, etc.

Ask a CompellingQuestion

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Evaluate & Revise

Publish Share

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Design Studio Showcase

A Project Based Inquiry Approach to Learning

Spires, Hervey, Morris, & Stelpflug, 2012.

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Anderson & Krathwol, (2001); Spires et al (2009)

Traditional F2F Learning

Blended Learning

• F2F + Online • 24/7/365 Learning• Just-in-Time Learning

What is Blended Learning?

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How You Can Connect Your Classroom!

• Global Education Collaborative• Rafi.ki • Flat Classrooms• Global School Net • ePals • Progressive Writing

Students generate complex intellectual products to demonstrate learning

Students learn and collaborate in similar ways found in career and work environments

Students are critical consumers and producers of content

Teachers are facilitators and academic coaches for high quality student learning

So let’s give it a go . . . .

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Dr. Hiller Spireshaspires@ncsu.eduNewlit.org

ReferencesAnderson, L. W. and David R. Krathwohl, D. R., et al (Eds..) (2001) A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing:A

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ReferencesKoehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2008). Introducing TPCK. In AACTE Committee on Innovation and Technology (Ed.), Handbook of

technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) for educators (pp. 3-29). New York, NY: Routledge.

Lee, J., Hollebrands, K., Spires, H., Young, C. & Wiebe, E. (2010, April/May). Toward a new learning ecology in 1:1 learning environments. Paper presented as part of a symposium at AERA, Denver, CO.

Little, S. E., & Ray, T. (2005). Managing knowledge: An essential reader (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2006). Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge. Teachers College Record, 108(6), 1017–1054.

Saato, M., R.C., & Darling-Hammond, L. (2008). Improving teachers’ assessment practices through professional development: The case of National Board Certification. American Educational Research Journal, 45 (3), 669-700.

Senges, M., Brown, J.S., & Rheingold, H. (2008, December). Entrepreneurial learning in the networked age. Paradigmes, 1. 125-140.

Spires, H., Wiebe, E., Young, C., Hollebrand, K. Lee, J., & Hollebrand, K. (2009). Toward a new learning ecology: Teaching and Learning in 1:1 Learning Environments. Friday Institute White Paper Series: Raleigh, NC. See http://fi.ncsu.edu/podcast/white-paper-series/2009/04/22/toward-a-new-learning-ecology/

Wesch, M. (2008). A portal for media literacy. Retrieved February 23, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s