2. What do we want to do
with ICT?
We want to create and support 21st Century
Learners/Learning
What characterizes the 21st Century Learner?
How is the environment created to support 21st
Century Learning?
3. How Do You Define 21st-
Century Learning?
http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01
panel.h04.html
The term "21st-century skills" is generally used to
refer to certain core competencies such as
collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and
problem-solving that advocates believe schools
need to teach to help students thrive in today's
world.
The idea of what learning in the 21st century
should look like is still open to interpretation—
and controversy.
4. Perspectives on 21st
Century Learning
I cannot understand why classrooms have
whiteboards but no classroom libraries.
The research, to date, has provided no evidence
that having either computers or whiteboards in
schools has any positive effect on students’
reading and writing proficiencies.
But school and classroom libraries are well
established as essential if we plan to develop a
literate citizenry.
5. Perspectives on 21st
Century Learning
Twenty-first-century learning means that students
master content while producing, synthesizing, and
evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects
and sources with an understanding of and respect for
diverse cultures.
Students demonstrate the 3 Rs, but also the 4 Cs:
critical thinking, creativity, communication, and
collaboration.
They demonstrate digital literacy as well as civic
responsibility.
Learning of this nature demands well-prepared
teachers who draw on advances in cognitive science
and are strategically organized in teams, in and out of
cyberspace.
6. Perspectives on 21st
Century Learning
Success in the 21st century requires knowing
how to learn.
Students today will likely have several careers in
their lifetime. They must develop strong critical
thinking and interpersonal communication skills
in order to be successful in an increasingly fluid,
interconnected, and complex world.
Technology allows for 24/7 access to information,
constant social interaction, and easily created
and shared digital content.
7. Perspectives on 21st
Century Learning
In this setting, educators can leverage
technology to create an engaging and
personalized environment to meet the emerging
educational needs of this generation.
No longer does learning have to be one-size-fits-
all or confined to the classroom.
The opportunities afforded by technology should
be used to re-imagine 21st-century education,
focusing on preparing students to be learners for
life.
8. Perspectives on 21st
Century Learning
But being able to Google is no substitute for true
understanding. Students still need to know and
deeply understand...
They need to be able to … to speak a language
besides their mother tongue.
According to most 21st-century skills’ advocates,
students needn’t actually walk around with such
knowledge in their heads, they need only to have the
skills to find it. I disagree.
Twenty-first-century technology should be seen as an
opportunity to acquire more knowledge, not an
excuse to know less.
9. 11 Characteristics Of
21st Century Learning
1. Learner-centered
2. Media-driven (this doesn’t have to mean
digital media)
3. Personalized
4. Transfer-by-Design
5. Visibly Relevant
6. Data-Rich
10. 11 Characteristics Of
21st Century Learning
7. Adaptable
8. Interdependent
9. Diverse
10. Opportunity to play, develop passion, find
purpose, to be creative and innovative
11. Equality
11.
12. Limits and Challenges of Technology -
Insecurity
…There is a constant insecurity that someone
somewhere is doing it better–faster, smarter, for less
money, with better results. The trouble is that the data
for these “other people” that are undoubtedly “doing it
better” is usually scant:
The desire to maintain, keep up, and “embrace,” it is
possible to run roughshod over common sense and
planning–and miss the why the technology does or
does not work.
Without this careful attention to the ins and outs of
pedagogy and how people learn, such adoption
becomes a me-too contest that works with the
precision of a grenade.
13. Limits and Challenges of Technology –
Blind Adoption
For technology to be effective beyond cursory notions of
“engagement” or publicity, it must be holistically married to
curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Very little coverage actually delves into the cognitive,
emotional, or cultural mechanisms that are enacted by
great technology. It may be a relative lack of pedagogical
expertise, too little experience with instructional design, or
that there is simply little perceived interest in how it all
works.
Technology is expensive, ages fast, and can be irrationally
frustrating when it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. This
can lead to disillusionment by users–learners and
educators–a misplaced anger that can deter future
adoption on shaky logical grounds.
14. Limits and Challenges of Technology –
Blind Adoption
Aggressive technology adoption is a recipe for waste.
Widespread implementation of anything that is hoped
to literally transform learning needs to be done with a
macro view of the entire learning ecology, not an
insecure notion of keeping up with the Jones’.
Understanding why technology works also helps us
understand its limits, not simply to inform future tech
evolution, but to more accurately re-evaluate the role
of teachers, curriculum experts, app developers, and
most critically the communities that technology
should ultimately serve.
15. How can ICT support?
ICTs should be used to effectively marry Content
with Skills.
We already have the content;
So what are 21st Century learning SKILLS?
19. ICT Objectives
We want learners to learn and practice these
skills while using technology
The acquisition of those skills will help reveal the
relevance of the content
The skilled learner will master the acquisition of
content and the application of knowledge
20. A model for Integrating ICT
Integration of ICT into the curriculum requires an
understanding of how ICT could be integrated
into the smaller components of the curriculum.
Thus we must think about:
ICT integration into a topic, and
ICT integration into a lesson
That takes planning!!
21. Systematic Planning for ICT Integration
in Topic Learning
Systematic Planning for ICT Integration in Topic
Learning
Qiyun Wang and Huay Lit Woo
2007
22. End of Presentation
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