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Transcript of 21st Century Digital Learners and Teachers
By Elma Mae Osana
21st Century Digital Learners and Teachers
ObjectivesTo identify the skills of the 21st Century Digital Learners
To discuss about the 21st Century Teacher
Digital Learners
The 21st Century dawned as the beginning of the Digital Age- a
time of unprecedented growth in technology and its subsequent information explosion. Never before have the tools for
information access and management made such an impact on the way we live, work, shop and play. New technologies and tools multiply the market daily and the new technologies of today are outdated almost as soon as the reach the market. Numerous studies and reports have emerged over the past
decades that seek to identify the life, career, and learning skills that define the skills needed for success in the 21st century
world. While 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:
Creativity and InnovationUsing knowledge and understanding to create new ways of thinking in order to find solutions to new problems
To create new products and services
Think Creatively:
Use a wide range of idea creation techniques( brainstorming)
Create new and worthwhile ideas(both incremental and radical concepts)
Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts
Demonstrate imagination and curiosity
Work Creatively with others
Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
Be open and responsive to new and diverse perpectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work
Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real worldlimits to adopting new ideas
View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of a small successes and frequent mistakes
Implementing Innovations
Act on creatuve ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovayion will occur
Critical Thinking and Problem SolvingApplying higher order thinking to new problems and issues, using appropriate reasoning as they effectively analyze the problem and make decisions anout the most effective ways to solve the problem.
Reason Effectively
Use various of reasoning (e.g inductve,deductive, etc) as appropriate to the situation
Make judgements and Decisions
Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments , claims and beliefs
Analyze the evaluate major alternative points of view
Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
Interpret onformation and draw concluions based on the best the analysis
Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
Solve Problems
Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both convetional and innovative ways
Identifyand ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
CommunicationCommunicting effectively in a wide variety of forms and contexts for a wide range of purposes and using multiple media and technologies
Communicate Clearly
Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbalcommunication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitude, and intentions
Use communication for a range of purpose (e.g to inform, instruct, innovate, and persuade and in diverse environments( including ,ulti-lingual)
Utilize multiple media and technologies , and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact
CollaborationWorking with others respectfully and effectively to create, use and share knowledge, solutions and innovations
Collaborate with Others
Demonstrate abilitity 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 responsiblity for collaborative work and value the individual contributions made by each team member
Information Management
Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating
sharing information from multiple sources
Effective Use of Technology
Creating the capacity to identify and use technology efficiently, effectively and ethicalyy as a tool to access, organize, evaluate and share information
Career and Life Skills
Developing skills for becoming self-directed , indepent learners and workers who can adapt to change , manage projects, take responsibility for their work, lead others and produce results
Cultural Awareness
Developing 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
Information, Media and
Technology Skills
INFORMATION LITERACYAccess and Evaluate Information
Access information efficiently (time and effectively (sources)
Evaluate informatkion critically and competently
Use and Manage Information
Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
Mangae flow of informatkon from a wide variety of sources
Apply a fundmental understanding of the ethical/legal issuse surounding the access and use of information
Media Literacy Analyze Media
Understand both how and why media messages rae constructed and for what purposes
Examine how individuals intepret messages differently, how values and points of vies are included or excluded , and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors
Apply fundamental understanding of the tehical/legal issus surrounding the accsess and use of media
Create Media Products
Understand and utilize the most appropriate medai creation tools, characteristics and convetions
Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate expresisions and interpretations in diverse, multi-cultural environments
ICT LiteracyApply TEchnology Effectively
USe technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information
Use digitaltechnologies, communication/ networking tools and social networks appropriatelt to access, mange, integrate,evaluate and create information to seccessfully function in a knowledge economy
Apply a fundamental understanding of vthe ethuical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information technologies
Integrating 21st Century Skills with ContentThese skills are about the thinking processes and behaviors students will use as they learn subject area content and work woth others to deepen their understanding of the content. All of the frameworks emphasize the need to ground 21st century skills in core content, an expecially in an interdisciplinary fashion. Organizing instruction around important concepts and “big ideas” helps students create conceptual structures for stiring,retrieving and using information in anew and unanticipated ways. As the 21st century skills are integrated into content, come key design principles include:
Connecting the content knowledge to real-world applications and problem situations
Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning
Help Students understand and monitor the thinking processes they are using
Using technology to help students access, analyze organize and share what ther are learning and allow students to independentky locate appropriate tools for th task
Providing opportunities to students to become “creators as well as consumers of published information”
Engaging students in solving complex problems that require higher orded thinking and application of content and that results in new perspectives and solutions to problems
Instruction that meets the needs of today's students will incorporate
A variety of learning ooportunities and activities
The use of appropriate technology tools to accomplish learning goals
Project-and problem-based learning
Cross-curricular connections
A focus on inquiry and the student-led investigations
Collaborative learning environments, both within beyond the classroom
The Characteristics of a 21st Century
Educator
There are essential skills for the Digital learners that should consider in giving
appropriate activities and assessments but what about the 21st Century Teacher, what
are the characteristics we would expect to see in them?
The Adaptor
Must be able to adapt the curriculum
Be able to adapt software and hardware
Be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience
Must understannd and apply different learning styles
The Visionary
Must see the potential in the emerging tools and web technologies, grasp and manipulate them
Can look at others ideas and envisage how would they use these in their class
Looks across the disciplines and through the curricula
Collaborator
Able to leverage these collaborative tools to enchance and captivate our learners
must be collaborators, sharing , contributing, adapting and inventing
Risk Taker
Must take risks and some times surrender yourself to the students knowledge
Have a vission of what you want and what technology can achieve, identify the goals facilitate learning
Use the strength of the digital natives to understand and navigate new products
Learner
We expect our students to be life-long learners
must continue to absorb new possibilities and experiences
must endeavor to stay current
The 21st Century Teacher or educator must learn and adapt
Communicator
Are fluent in tools and technologies that enable communication and collaboration
Know how to use different media in communication
Allows students to be able to express their insight and share their thoughts
Model
Must model the behaviours that are expected from their students
Educators are often the most consistent part of our student life
They model: Tolerance, Acceptance, a wider view than just their curricula areas, global awareness and reflection
Leader
Clear goals and objectives is crucial to the success or failure of any project