digital technology and learning

Learning 20.2:A 21st Century

Perspective on Learning,

Teaching and Technology

Advances in technology information and communication have changed the way learning and teaching are carried out

The internet broke through and everything changed

An internet which doubles in size every 120 days

Getting information off the internet is like filling a cup from a waterfall

Browsing is out Engaging experiences are in

Our students do things differently from 10 years ago

Almost 66 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video by 2014

We’ve had a

The world is now connected

We are educating a web savvy generation who expect a

higher level of engagement

1,400,000 UK pupils have their own web page.

One size does not

fit all

Blue Ocean Thinking: The ‘Architecture of Participation’

After all… Learning, like life, is a river,not a reservoir

Its about a journey… …unique to each of us

…unique to each of our students

Across the years…

..SHIFT HAPPENED!

From Paper based culture

To Screen Based Culture

Sources of information

Print Visuals Animation Videos

Sources of information

Audio Wikis/blogs Internet Conversations

Motorola: The 2033 concept features an organic memory application, which would theoretically capture memories directly from your brain.

What do 21st century learners experience

In your classroom?

Industrial teaching is not an efficient way to teach

After ten minutes you’ve lost 35% of them

After 25 minutes you’ve

lost 75%

Which leaves you with a beginning and an end, but no middle!

Don’t say anything important here!

Start End

Learning Tools

Modes of Communication

With these tools our students can explore, react, customise, respond, engage, inquire, interact, rewind, pause, query, test, repeat

Digital NativesBorn with IT

Digital NativesBorn with I.T.

They don’t know any other way!

This means that as educators we are faced with even more challenges than the last decade.

Our students are:Tech savvy

Multi taskersPersonal

Hands onVisual

Goal orientatedCollaborative

Social

They get information anywhere

Where’s the conflict?

Traditional 21st century teacher educator

Opportunities for Informal Learning

New Sources

We have always sought to provide authentic education addressing the “whole child”, the “whole person”

In order to support our students continued growth for the rest of

this century we need to develop...

•Critical Thinking and Problem Solving •Collaboration across Networks •Agility and Adaptability

•Initiative and Entrepreneurialism •Effective Oral and Written Communication •Accessing and Analysing Information •Curiosity and Imagination

Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap:

effective global collaborators

http://flickr.com/photos/pingnews/491430005/in/photostream/

Students with 21st Century Skills Require Teachers with 21st Century Skills

As educators we have to keep up:

Technology LiteracyMedia LiteracyOnline CommunicationInternet Tools

JESS 21st Century Skilled Teachers:

Computer SavvyCreativeCriticalConstructiveConnected Communicative

Embrace 21st Century learning for JESS students

Explore emerging toolsEngage with your learnersOffer more creativity, less controlCelebrate their potential

Aim High!

Technology can empower students to:

otake command of their learning oinspire their learning omotivate them to be lifelong learners.

Welcome to the second decade of the 21st Century

It’s the time of a different kind of learner

Time for a different kind of school:

Time for our ’Blue Ocean’