{"id":46,"date":"2014-01-29T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/?p=46"},"modified":"2014-01-29T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:28:30","slug":"content-vs-skill-our-roles-as-21st-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/2014\/01\/29\/content-vs-skill-our-roles-as-21st-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Content vs. Skill: Our Roles as 21st Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, entitled\u00a0<\/span>“Handing out iPads to Students isn’t Enough<\/a>,” and a prompt from @Think_teach that inspired this next post. What is our role as 21st Century educators?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is it our role to teach students the content (knowledge and facts) that they need to move forward in life? Or, is it our job to teach them the skills (critical thinking, application etc.) that they need to move forward?<\/p>\n

It is in my opinion, that in era where information is available at the “click of a button” that we should be teaching them the skills to locate, analyze and apply this information, not merely memorize it. I understand that a certain level of content understanding is important and necessary, however should we be using the content to teach them the skills they need, or using the skills they have to teach them the content?<\/p>\n

As @Think_teach suggests this may differ for each student, but I might also add per subject. I know that in my English course we use the content (poetry, fiction, film etc.) to teach a skill (analysis, communication, application). It is true that without the knowledge of the text that they may not be able to practice their skill, but where does the true value lie, in the content or skill?<\/p>\n

As we fast forward into the 21st Century, and the implementation of technology into the classroom, knowledge is only the starting point; we need to teach them how to apply their knowledge and as the article suggests encourage the creation of new information and\/or technology.<\/p>\n

I am interested in hearing your feedback. Please leave a comment.\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

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It was a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, entitled\u00a0“Handing out iPads to Students isn’t Enough,” and a prompt from @Think_teach that inspired this next post. What is our role as 21st Century educators?\u00a0 Is it our role to teach students the content (knowledge and facts) that they need to move forward in life? … Continue reading “Content vs. Skill: Our Roles as 21st Educators”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,7,13,10,11,9,8,5],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-21stc","tag-content","tag-creation","tag-facts","tag-ipad","tag-knowledge","tag-skill","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/sarahbylsma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}