Twenty-first century learning in schools.By Bob Pearlman.
Abstract:
There are a lot of changes which started to take place during the 1990’s according to Bob Pearlman. These included globalization and an increased role in technology in work and life. Learning in the 21st century includes information and communication skills, thinking and problem-solving skills, interpersonal and self-directional skills, and the skills to use twenty-first century tools such as information and communication technologies.
This article goes through how the government is planning to spend over 80 billion dollars in re building schools within America which are over 15years old and create a 21st century environment which is able to inspire learning for decades to come. But to do this we need to know what the students want to learn and the skills they need for the 21st century. I think this is really important due to the fact that this is the future, technology is our future and if the future generations don’t know how to function within society and to keep up with the recent technological advancements then we wont be going anywhere and we will be trapped in the past.When thinking about preparing students for the 21st century we need to address a few important questions and Bob Pearlman asks these:
• What learning curricula, activities, and experiences foster twenty-first century learning?
• What assessments for learning, school based and national, foster student learning, engagement, and self-direction?
• What physical learning environments (classroom, school, and real world) foster twenty-first century student learning?
• How can technology support a twenty-first century collaborative learning environment and support a learning community?
Walk into a classroom at New Technology High School (NTHS)in Napa, California, and you will see students at work: writing journals online, doing research on the Internet, meeting in groups to plan and make their Web sites and their digital media presentations, and evaluating their peers for collaboration and presentation skills. Another teacher’s students may also be there in a team-taught interdisciplinary course. These activities have a name and a purpose.
This is called project-based learning, and it is designed to engage students in learning deeply.
A simple strategy was planned out to tackle complex problems and will require critical thinking:
• To learn collaboration, work in teams.
• To learn critical thinking, take on complex problems.
• To learn oral communication, present.
• To learn written communication, write.
• To learn technology, use technology.
• To develop citizenship, take on civic and global issues.
• To learn about careers, do internships.
• To learn content, research and do all of the above.
This strategy can be enforced if students can work on projects that are designed to extract collaboration, critical thinking, written communication, oral communication, work ethic, and other critical skills while simultaneously meeting state or national content standards.
September 12th, 2007
Abstract
The article is about the effects of computer and Internet technology on higher education. While technology has extremely promising benefits for education in the United States, it has mainly been used to facilitate the delivery of content rather than change the ways people are educated. Edward Moleny believes the problem is that most course-management systems were developed at a time when the Internet was seen primarily as a mechanism for information delivery. To improve this, teachers should look toward the evolution of “Web 2.0,” which focuses on new means of creating and presenting data.
Most educators including teachers are noticing a way on how to change the way they teach and the way students learn. It is extremely important for us to look at technology and the advancements which come along with technology and how it can be used as a means of teaching students and for them to be able to use technology to learn in a more collaborative environment.
Within classrooms most educators are allowing students to use technologies but these don’t allow students to think. Management systems such as PowerPoint help but don’t allow students to think. The problem is that most course-management systems were developed at a time when the Internet was seen primarily as a mechanism for information delivery. We need to turn to the web 2.0 where people can now put ‘themselves’ into the internet. People can have a say and students can now be granted to opportunity to ‘collaborative’ learn.
HEY JUDE BLOG
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/
This blog is an excellent learning tool for using web2.0. It has great infromation and links and tools for web2.0.
examples include:
TAGGING
BLOGGING
and she has a few vidoes on researching the internet wisely.
she also has a posting on using blogging within the curriculum which is great because it shows you how to blog within the classroom.
Setting up a shared blog space for groups of students working on different topics, such as: Visual Ventures (electricity); Safety First (issues for different scenarios); New Concepts (cool maths problems to try and solve); Riddles & Poems; Religion (World Youth Day - the latest on the cross, and living the message of Jesus).
This blog gives you everything you need to know when using Web2.0. I think blogs done for this purpose are GREAT..
SLIDESHARE
http://www.slideshare.net/
This site is great for teaching and has alot of great slides using photos and pictures which are put together to create slideshows for people to view on the internet.
Its a web2.0 version of powerpoint and with most teachers using powerpoint in the classroom this is just one step ahead of that. Making it interactive and fun and easy to use for the student and the teacher.
Its a great educational tool where the teacher can upload information on slides and then make it interactive so the whole class can log on at their own time at home and access the infromation. Here is an example of a slide which is already on slideshare this can be used by students to aid them on how to write:
http://www.slideshare.net/piperdavis/the-writing-process-102731/1
A slideshow which is on slideshare about web2.0 and the 21st Century is great in allowing you to understand the concept of web2.0 and where it all came from. Sort of like a mini history lesson. This slideshow is also effective to show to students as it clearly goes through details on web2.0 and what web2.0 actully is.
Web 2.0 is not a webpage but a platform for people to be able to upload anything on the internet and view it and allow others to also view it.
This slideshow also has refelction activities on which students can brake up into groups and do it together. It is very detailed and to the point and it think it is a great learning tool.
http://www.slideshare.net/mrpowers/web-20-4-teachers-081407/38
Teachers across the globe are attempting to prepare their students for “The Real World.” The real world today is much different than “The Real World” from ten years ago, which was different than “The Real World” ten years prior to that. And I don’t think the school system changes to accommodate for this and truly prepares students for “The Real World” of tomorrow.
I found this statement on Mr Powers blog - http://mrpowers.edublogs.org/
this is very true and i totally agree. The world moves at a fast pace and teachers have to allow for students to move with it and learn new things and be up to date with new ideas and technologies. This is important in the world we live in today and therefore i think the techer is the one who needs to learn this first before passing it on to the students.
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