digital technology and learning
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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’
