Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged 21st-Century-Education
Making an impact
Nov 27th
On Oct. 30 I wrote about a presentation I gave to our High School student body on Oct. 29th. To date it was one of the hardest presentations I’ve had to give. Talking to students about their spaces, about their future, and trying to make an impact that lasted well after the 45 minute presentation. I wore jeans, a loose shirt, and wanted them to view me as a friend, not another adult telling them to “Get off of facebook”.
Today, I visited two of the facebook.com groups that our students here started and that I used in the presentation. As you may More >
Fear + Unknown = Bubble
Aug 28th
Some great discussion from the e-mail I posted from a former student of mine who is finding his new school more restrictive than what we had in place here last year. I say last year because we have tightened the belt a little on students here. He was also in my teentek.com class last year and hacked up our themes and was the system admin for the site for the year. He also would get frustrated with students wasting time on “stupid flash games” and took it upon himself to seek and destroy flash games as student downloaded them. He knew More >
Technology to push teachers
Jun 5th
Some interesting conversations have come out of my last post “Goodbye to your job.“
Now do I seriously thing that the Microsoft Surface is going to make teachers obsolete? No, but I do believe a product like the Microsoft Surface is going to push teachers to rethink education. Especially if students are already telling me “You won’t have a job.”
Absolutely!
What excites me is not the Microsoft Surface itself but the technology. My favorite part of the video below is the part where the guy is standing and playing with Google Earth on a wall, or flat surface. That is the technology that More >
Bloom’s Taxonomy Revisited
Jan 8th
Bloom’s Taxonomy the foundation for most educators, and education through the last part of the 20th Century looks at Lower-Order Thinking Skills and Higher-Order Thinking Skills. Most educators no matter where they have been educated at one time or another have probably come across Bloom’s Taxonomy. The problem is, created in 1954 does it still apply today?
Found on the American Psychological Association’s (APA) web site is a new look at Bloom’s Taxonomy written for the learner of the 21st Century.
What does this new taxonomy mean for teaching? Has anything changed? I for one find it refreshing that we have taken this More >
