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The Digital Learner And 21st Century

Teacher

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The 21st Digital Learner• The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the Digital Age – a

time unprecedented growth in teachnology and its subsequent information explosion. Numerous studies and reports have emerged over the past decade that seek to identify the life, career, and learning skills that define the skills needed for success in the 21st century world.

• There are some differences in how the skills are categorized or interpreted, there are also many commonalities. Common skills across most of the studies include:

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1. Creativity and Innovation

Using knowledge and understanding to create new ways of thinking in order to find solutions to new problems and to create new products and services.

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Think Creatively• Use a wide range of idea creation techniques

(such as brainstorming)• Create new and worthwhile ideas (both

incremental and radical concepts)• Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate ideas in

ordere to improve and maximaze creative efforts.• Demonstraet imagination and curiosity

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Work Creatively with Others• Develop, Implements, and communicate new ideas to

others effectively• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives;

incorporate group input and feedback into the work.• Demonstrate originally and inventiveness in work and

understand the real wolrd limits to adopting new ideas.• View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that

creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes.

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Implements Innovations•Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.

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2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Applying higher order thinking to new problmes and issues, using appropriate reasoning as they effectively anlyze the problem and make decisions about the most effective ways to solve the problem.

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Reason Effectively•Use various types of reasoning (e.g, inductive, deductive, etc.) as a appropriate to the situation.

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Use Systems Thinking

•Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems.

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Make Judgement and Decisions• Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments,

claims and beliefs• Analyze and evaluate major altenative points of view• Synthesize and make connections between

information and arguments• Interpret information and draw conclusion based on

the best analysis• Reflect critically on learning experience and

processes

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Solve Problems•Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways• Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions

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3. Communication

Communicating effectively in a wide variety of forms and contexts for a wide range of purposes and using multiple media and technologies.

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Communicate Clearly

• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts

• Listen effectively to decipher meaning including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions

• Use communication for a range of purposes (e,g to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade) and in diverse environment (including multi-lingual) utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact.

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4. CollaborationWorking with others respectfully and effectively to create, use and share knowledge, solutions and innovations.

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Collaborative with Others• Demonstrate ability to work effectively and

respectfully with diverse teams• Exercise flexibility and willingness to be

helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal• Assume shared responsibility for collaborative

work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member

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accessing analyzing, synthesizing, creating and sharing information from multiple sources.

5. Information Management

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6. Effective Use of Technology

Creating the capacity to identify and use technology efficiently. Effectively and ethically as a tool to access, organize, evaluate and share information

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7. Career and Life Skills

Developing skills for becoming self-directed, independent learners and workers who can adapt to change, manage projects, take responsibility for their work, lead others and produce results.

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8. Cultural AwarenessDeveloping cultural

competence in working with others by recognizing and respecting cultural differences and work with others from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.

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Information, Media and technology

Skills

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Information LiteracyAccess and Evaluate information

•Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)• Evaluate information critically and

competenly

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Use and Manage Information• Use information accurately and creativity

for the issue or problem at hand• Manage the flow of information from a wide

variety of sources.• Apply fundamental understanding of the

ethical/legat issues surrounding the access and use of information.

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Media LiteracyAnlayze Media• Understand both how and why media messages are

constructed and for what purposes• Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how

values an dpoints of view are included or excluded, and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors

• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of media

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Create Media Products•Understand and utilize the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics, and conventions•Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expressions and interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments.

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ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy

Apply Technology Effectively• Use technology as a tool to research, organize,

evaluate, and communicate information• Use digital technologies (e.g, computers, PDA’s,

media player, GPS, etc)• Apply a fundamental understanding of the

ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies.

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The 21st Century TeacherThere are essential skills for the digital learners that

teachers should consider in giving appropriate activities and assessments to their learners. We know they are student centric, holistic, they are teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, that they must be 21st century learners as well. But teachers are more than this. To meet the demands of the digital education, the 21st century educator should acquire the following charteristic.

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1. The Adaptor the 21st Century teacher is an adaptor. Harnessed as we are to an assessment focused education model the 21st Century Educator must be able to adapt the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways.

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• They must also be able to adapt software and hardware designed for a business model into tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and abilities.

• They must also able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience. When it all goes wrong in the middle of a class, when the technologies fail, the show must go on.

• As an educator, they must understand and apply different learning styles. They must also be able to adapt our teaching style to be inclusive of different models of learning

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2. The VisionaryImagination, a key component of adaptability, is a crucial component of the educator of today and tomorrow.

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• They must see the potential in the emerging tools and web technologies, grasp these and manipulate them to serve their needs.

• The visionary teacher can look at others ideas and envisage how they would use these in their class.

• The visionary also looks across the disciplines and through the curricula. They can make links that reinforce and value learning in other areas, and leverage other fields to reinforce their own teaching and the learning of their students.

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3. The Collaborator Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, Msn, MySpace, Second life- as an educator we must be able to leverage these collaborative tools to enhance and captivate our learners, we too, must be collaborators; sharing, contributing, adapting and inventing.

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4. The Risk TakerHow can you as an educator to know all these things? How can you teach them how to use them? There are so many, so much to learn.

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• A 21st Century Educator must take risks and some times surrender yourself to the students knowledge.

• Have a vison of what you want and what the technology can achieve, identify the goals and facilitate the learning.

• Use the strengths of the digital natives to understand and inavigate new products, have the students teach each other.

• The learning pyramid shows that the highest retention of knowledge comes from teaching others. Trust your students.

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5. The learnerWe expect our student to be long learners. How many schools have the phrase “life long learners” in their mission statements and objectives. We too must continue to absorb new possibilities and experiences. We must endeavor to stay current. The 21st Century teacher or educator must learn and adapt.

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6. The CommunicatorsThe 21st Century Teachers are fluent in tools and technologies that enable communication and collaboration. They know how to use different media in communaction. It allows students to be able to express their insights and share their thoughts in a topic or any issues that concern them.

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7. The ModelThe Digital teacher must model the behaviors that are

expected from their students, Today and Tomorrow more so, there is an expectation that teachers will teach values.

The educators are often the most consistent part of pour student life. Teachers will see the students more often than their parents.

The 21st Century Educators also models reflective practice, whether it’s the quite, personal inspection of their teaching and learning, or through reflective via blogs, twitter and other medium, these educators look both inwards and outwards.

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These teachers also model a number of other characteristics. These are not necessarily

associated with ICT or the curriculum, but are of equal importance. They Model:

• Tolerance• Acceptance• A wider view than just their curricula areas• Global awareness• Reflection

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8. The LeaderLeadership, like clear goals and objectives is crucial to the success or failure of any project.

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Facilitating 21st Century LearningICT is an abbreviation for Information and Comunication Technologies. Tyhis is a vast variety of tools and technologies encompassing personal computing, the internet, phones, fax and everything in between. In facilitatying 21st Century learning, there are three factors that administrators and educators are deliberately considering in the implementation of technology in Education.

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1. Resources This is the physical and

electronic tools and materials available to the teacher in the classroom.

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The availability of tools like:• Interactive whiteboards• Calssroom desktop computers• Pods of laptops or one to one programs• PDA’s, ipods and cellphones• Educationally focused software• Learning and content management systems• Video and audioconferencing• Media production facilities• Learning spaces for the 21st Century

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2. skills• Skills, fall into two categories; Technical and

Pedagogical. By technical skills, it refers to the ability to operate the resource provide to you. The ability as a 21st Century teacher to asdapt, adopt and modify. The confidence and compentence to teach and facilitate the use of these technologies. The second category, pedagogical skills, is the more important of the two. Strengths in pedagogy can and will make up for deficits in technical ability

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3. Curriculum Does our curricula reflect 21st Century learning? Are our assessement models reflective of the world our students are in or will be in ?

integrating curricula that support ICT integration are dynamic. The use of ICTs is mandatory and global, inclusive and specific. The selection of tools and resources are curriculum driven. These units are constantly reviewed.