2. Elements of a 21st Century Classroom
• People often talk about the classroom of the future as something that
would be nice to have yet is unattainable today. While we can never
discount the affordability issue, the elements to create an engaging,
technology-enabled environment that is appealing to 21st-century
learners are available today.
• -Nancy Knowlton
3. 21st Century Classrooms
• Children have the opportunity to
take much more responsibility
for their own learning as
teachers move from being the
sage on the stage to the guide
on the side.
4. Let's consider the elements of a 21st-century
classroom.
• Instead of the concept of "the
classroom of the future," we Interactive
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Whiteboard
need to talk in terms of "the
21st-century classroom," which
is real today. It can make a
remarkable difference in how Teacher Student
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teachers teach and learners
learn.
Interactive
Modular
Response
Structure
System
7. In these21st century
classrooms , information
and communication
technology(ICT)becomes
integral to the teaching
and learning experience.
8. Does technology enhance educational
experiences?
YES!!! YES!!!!
• There are tangible and positive • It helps to define the very nature
effects on teaching and learning of the experience, which could
when technology is infused. not happen without technolgy.
9. What does a 21st Century learner look like?
A 21st Century learner appears to be someone who is
engaged in educational gaming and multi-user virtual
environments (MUVEs), collaborating through social
media (blogs, wikis), listening to Podcast lectures on
iPODs and Smartphones, watching YouTube videos,
connected to and communicating with the global
village through wireless laptops and PDAs. Always
plugged in, always on, 21st Century learners are
mass-consumers of information on demand at the
speed of thought. –David Ligon
10. What does a 21st century teacher look like?
I think there are three types of 21st Century teachers. There are the early adopters who have fully
embraced the use of technology in the classroom (blogs, wikis, podcasts, Smartboards, online
assessment tools, cloud resources). These tech savvy educators truly define what we would normally
think of as 21st Century teachers. Then there are the teachers who struggle with the technology, but
want to learn and incorporate modern tools into their instructional practice. Although they are not on the
cutting edge, they nonetheless want to relate to the high-tech world their students live in and teach in a
way that addresses the needs of those digital learners. Finally, there are the anachronistic rejectionists-
-essentially technophobes who want nothing to do with technology in instruction and who are quickly
becoming obsolete, soon to be left behind in the dust of the modern age. For that contingent, their days
are numbered, and will likely die out altogether in the mid-21st Century. –David Ligon
