C if for conversations…
In the article, The 21st Century Digital Learner, Marc Prensky states “We just don’t listen enough to our students.” He encourages us to listen to our students and to treat them as consumers of education. Big businesses spend huge sums of money to find out what their consumers think about their advertising and methods of delivery. We don’t need to spend huge sums of money but we do need to be willing to spend the time to ask, to listen and then to respond. Will we be surprised? Will we be chagrined? Will we be intrigued? Will we need to learn ways to integrate technology into our lessons? Probably yes to all. But the largest question to me is what do we lose when we don’t ask?

C is for continual questioning.

B is for Badges

B is for badges.  I just found out about how to create Flicker badges.  What a great way to capture interest on a web site.  The rapidly changing visual kaleidoscope of pictures makes you stop and think - what is the topic?  It reminds me a little bit of Guess the Google which I've used to teach keyword search terms.  However, you have to be careful - some of the score postings would be inappropriate for children.  I wonder how else this can be used in education?

So beware - it can be addictive.

A is for Awesome!

A is for awesome - a horribly overworked word that really should demand a raise.  However, if we go by the dictionary definition of  "inspiring awe" or "very impressive" what better word to describe the content we'll be covering in the Three C's of 21st Century Learning?  The sheer breadth of information that is hovering in cyberspace is amazing, astonishing and astounding.  

  Digitalpedia - an encyclopedia of a digital journey. A it definitely is!