Chapter2 - students and learning

Before we go over this chapter, let's look at this video first! 

This video is talk about the difference between 21st Century Education and 20th Century Education. We'll see how did the new technology changed our education.

Okay, after we watched this video, I am pretty sure you all have an idea about the difference. So, since the education is changing, how could our learner follow the new style education? What points they need to pay attention? 

Let's look at the next video - The 21st Century Learner

In this video, education experts say digital technologies could transform the way kids learn and participate in their communities. This is the topic that we need discuss in this chapter.

I need to say both of the videos are really interesting, technology affects how students live and communicate and when, where, and how they learn. Having digital technology at their fingertips all the time means that students think, work, and play differently from previous generations.

From cell phone and video games to Facebook and YouTube, digital media are changing the way young people play and socialize in the 21st century.

Here is the Bloom's Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956). It is described learning in six cognitive process dimensions: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.

 

To help students acquire these skills and become synthesizers means not just providing access to technological tools but also employing the pedagogical tools that are more powerful when combined with technology.

NETS-S

1. Creativity and Innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:

a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or process.

b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.

d. identify trends and forecast possibilities.

Citation

Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0, new tools, new schools. Eugene, OR: Intl Society for Technology in educ.

Chapter1 - new world, new web, new skills

The Web2.0, new tools, new school (2007) points out as society and the world of work change, the skill that students need to live and thrive in it also change. The competition will be fierce and can come from anywhere in this flat world. In some ways, students today are ahead of their elders. Technology is second nature to them and they accept and use it without question. Schools lag behind (P.17). I am totally agreed with this opinion. The generation after 80s and 90s are fascinated by the Internet and new technology. They use these new tools and skills during their daily life. Write a blog, post photos, create a video and school at home by distance education. Technology is full of our life. In order to increase schools effectively to educate students, learning and applying new web 2.0 tools are very important.  

"Web 2.0 is an ever-growing array of tools that people use to aggregate and interact with information in ways that are useful to them."(Solomon, G., & Schrum, L, 2007, P.23). Teachers and students can enhance their network through internet. Share ideas and concepts with global people, the interaction between teacher and student, student and student becoming to student and world. Web 2.0 tools can create this wonderful scene.

  NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) for Teachers:

All classroom teachers should be prepared to meet the following standards anf perfomance indicators.

  3. Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum

Teachers implement curriculum plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning. Teachers:

A. facilitate technology-enhanced experiences that address content standards and student technology standards.

B. use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.

C. apply technology to develop students' higher-order skills and creativity.

D. manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment. 

Citations:

Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0, new tools, new schools. Eugene, OR: Intl Society for Technology in educ. 

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"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit,we cannot flower and grow without it."
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