Innovative Teaching and 21st Century Skills

Week 2 at The Mind Lab 

This week our in class task was to work collaboratively to create a short film about 21st century learning skills.

We chose to create a iMovie trailer that demonstrated how ICT could be used to enhance student learning.

According to the ITL 21CLD Learning Activities Rubrics (Microsoft Partners in Learning, 2015), use of ICT for learning should enable students to engage in knowledge construction activities that would otherwise be impossible or extremely challenging to complete without the use of ICT.

We used the Use of ICT for Learning rubric to plan a theoretical learning sequence that involved collaboration between a New Zealand school and a Japanese school. The aim of the collaboration was to promote knowledge construction around greetings and basic language skills; and the development of a shared understanding of the similarities between our two cultures. The students from each country would practise their language skills by engaging in real-time interactions via Skype or Facetime. They would then have an opportunity to use these skills to interact with people during the completion of a school exchange program.

How did we do against the rubrics? 

Please feel free to leave some constructive feedback 😊