Managing the 21st Century Classroom discusses the hidden perils of technology that can reduce academic success. It notes that students today know different things than in the past due to technology. The document outlines strategies for using games, relevance, projects, and asking students to improve engagement. It recommends reducing multitasking while reading to improve learning and notes the differences in how students read online versus print. Suggestions are made for writing using real genres, blogging, peer responses, and Wikipedia. Formative assessment and evaluating creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication are presented as alternatives to standardized tests.

1. Managing the 21st Century
Classroom: How
Technology’s Hidden
Perils Can Lead to
Reduced Academic
Success
presented by
Willy Wood

3. “If some pundits are
convinced that kids today
know nothing, it may well be
because they know nothing
about what kids today
know.”
-Cathy N. Davidson

4. Instruction

5. “Memory is the residue
of thought.”
-Daniel Willingham

6. People don’t
remember what we
teach. They
remember what
they think about
what we teach!

7. Strategies: General
• Games
• Relevance / Inquiry
• Projects / “Boss Level
Challenge”
• Ask the Students

8. Reading

9. “Better
Attention
Always
Equals
Better
Learning.”
-John
Medina

10. Arousal

11. Medium Arousal Level is Best

12. Stimulus Driven
Attention

13. Controlled Attention

14. “Multi-tasking, when it
comes to paying
attention, is a myth.”
-John Medina

15. “…A person who is
interrupted takes 50
percent longer to
accomplish a task.
Not only that, he or
she makes up to 50
percent more
errors.”
-John Medina

16. Four Ways Reading Differs
on the Web:
1. Interactivity
2. Hyperlinking
3. Searchability
4. Multi-media

17. “To be everywhere is to
be nowhere.”
-Seneca

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19. Strategies: Reading
• “No Link Clicking” Rule
• Summarizing, Journaling,
Discussing, etc.
• Before, During, and After
Reading Activities to
Scaffold Understanding

20. Writing

21. “A student typically
writes research papers
only in school, one per
term, at an average…of
forty-two pages of papers
for each semester’s
classes. During the same
period, the average
college student writes
500 pages of e-mail.”
-Cathy N. Davidson

22. Strategies: Writing
• Ditch Academic-Only
Writing and “Fake
Genres”
• Use Genres Found in
the Discipline
• Blogging About Content
• Peer Response / Online
Conversations
• Wikipedia Articles

23. Classroom
Management

24. Assessment

25. The “4 Cs” of the Internet
1. Creativity
2. Critical Thinking
3. Collaboration
4. Communication

26. “The first rule of holes: When
you’re in one, stop digging.”
-Molly Ivans

27. Strategies: Assessment
• Ditch EOC Tests and
Standardized Tests
• More Formative
Assessment
• Peer Feedback / Peer
Grading
• Assess the “4 Cs”
• End Year with “Boss
Level Challenge”

28. “If something is
worth doing, it
is worth doing
badly.”
-G. K. Chesterton

29. “Anything
worth doing is
worth doing
slowly.”
-Mae West

30. Thank you
for your kind
attention!