21st century-skills

Module 1

Learning with Emerging Technologies:

Theory and Practice

SUNY Empire State College

Spring 2013

Jennifer CoeLindsay DeSormeau

Hatti Langsford

1. The role of change2.What are Emerging Technologies?3.How do we learn?4.What skills and abilities will we

need as we educate into the future?

Four Parts of Module 1

The Role of

Do we drive technology?Or is technology

driving us...

We need to think not just about what technology is and how we learn in it's context; but where technologies are emerging from; and how they are

changing how we learn...

What are emerging

technologies?

Veletsianos gives 5 criteria for technologies to be considered emerging:

1.They may or may not be new2.They are "evolving organisms that

exist in a state of 'coming into being'"(Veletsianos p.13)

3.They "go through hype cycles" (Veletsianos

p.14)

4.They are not yet fully understood or fully researched

5.They are "potentially disruptive but their potential is mostly unfulfilled" (Veletsianos p.16)

Veletsianos, G. (2010). A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education. In Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (pp. 3–22). Retrieved from http://www.icde.org/filestore/News/2004-2010/2010/G.Veletsianose-bookEmergingTechnologies.pdf

Defining "Emerging Technologies"

• Video and podcasting• Digital presentation tools• Brainstorming and organizing

tools• Blogs and blogging• Social networking• Lecture capture tools• Student response systems,

surveys, polls• Educational gaming• Open Educational Resources

Categories of Emerging Online Technologies

How do we learn?

Application to Learning with

Emerging Technologies:

• Learner-Centered• High learner

engagement• Interaction

between learner and content

• Interaction between learners and facilitator

• Interaction between learners

Learner interaction Is essential!

21st Century Learning Skills

Framework for 21st Century Learning

Perhaps it is less relevant to consider what specific technological skills

we will need and instead to do the same things that successful

humans have always done...to employ good critical thinking skills,

standards of ethics, and pliant adaptability in the face of change.

What really matters?