Last Wednesday evening nearly 100 South Lanarkshire teachers
turned out to hear me talk about 21st Century Learning Tools.
Jaye Richards did an excellent 15 minute job of warming up the
audience with a great thought piece and the whole evening was
organized by Andrea Reid (who is now on Twitter). Here are most
of the slides that I refered to during the presenation: I also
referred to the following links: Use generators to liven up your
lessons and to set learning / home learning objectives in a more
creative way. Some good examples include: Fodey – Includes the
famous wizard text and the newspaper generator Wordle – Turn
paragraphs of text into beautiful work clouds (try it with your
exam syllabus departmental development plan or anything else you
can think of!) Smoke Signal Generator - Make smoke signals come
out of your location. 2. 21st Century Students 21st century
students are a new bread of student. They exist in a high tech,
multimedia and glamorized world. We need to be prepared for this
in our classr