1st online Activity

1. The 21st Century Digital Learner
&
The 21st Century Teacher

2. The 21st Century Digital Learner
• The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the Digital
Age – a time of unprecedented growth in technology
and its subsequent information explosion.
• New technologies and tools multiply daily.
• While there are some differences in how the skills are
categorized or interpreted, there are also many
commonalities.

3. Common skills across most of the studies include:
• 1. Creativity and Innovation
♦ Using knowledge and understanding to create new ways of thinking
a.) Think Creatively
- Use a wide range of idea creation techniques
- Create new and worthwhile ideas
- Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate ideas
- Demonstrate imagination and curiosity

4. b.) Work Creatively With Others
- Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to
others effectively
- Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives
- Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and
understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
- View failure as an opportunity to learn
c.) Implement Innovations
- Act on creative and innovative ideas.

5. • 2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
♦ Applying higher order thinking to new problems and issues
a.) Reason Effectively
- Use various types of reasoning in an appropriate situation
b.) Use Systems Thinking
- Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce
overall outcomes in complex systems.

6. c.) Make Judgments and Decisions
- Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and
beliefs
- Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view
- Synthesize and make connections between information and
arguments
- Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best
analysis
- Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
d.) Solve Problems
- Solve unfamiliar problems in both conventional and innovative
ways
- Indentify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of
view and lead to better solutions

7. • 3. Communication
♦ Communicating effectively in a wide variety of forms and contexts for
a wide range of purposes and using multiple media and technologies.
a.) Communicate Clearly
- Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and
non-verbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values,
attitudes, and intentions
- Use communication for a range of purposes and in diverse
environments
- Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge
their effectiveness

8. • 4. Collaboration
♦ Working with others respectfully and effectively to create, use and
share knowledge, solutions and innovations.
a.) Collaborate with Others
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse
teams
- Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful
- Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the
individual contributions made by each team member.

9. • 5. Information Management
♦ Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating and sharing information
from multiple sources.
• 6. Effective Use of Technology
♦ Creating the capacity to identify and use technology efficiently,
effectively and ethically as a tool to access, organize, evaluate, and
share information

10. • 7. Career and Life Skills
♦ Developing skills for becoming self-directed, independent learners and
workers who can adopt to change, manage projects, take
responsibility for their work, lead others and produce results.
• 8. Cultural Awareness
♦ Developing cultural competence in working with others recognizing
and respecting cultural differences and work with others from a wide
range of cultural and social backgrounds.

11. Information, Media and Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
– Access and Evaluate Information
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
– Use and Manage Information
• Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem
at hand
• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
• Apply fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues
surrounding the access and views of information

12. • Media Literacy
– Analyze Media
• Understand both how and why media messages are
constructed and for what purposes
• Examine how individuals interpret messages differently,
how values and points of view are included or excluded
and how media can influence beliefs and behaviors.
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal
issues surrounding the access and use of media

13. – Create Media Products
• Understand and utilize the most appropriate media
creation tools, characteristics, and conventions
• Understand and effectively utilize the most appropriate
expressions and interpretation and diverse, multi-
cultural environments

14. ICT (INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS
AND TECHNOLOGY) LITERACY
• Apply Technology Effectively
– Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and
communicate information.
– Use digital technology, communication/networking tools, and
social networks appropriately to access, manage, integrate,
evaluate, and create information to successfully function in a
knowledge economy
– Apply fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues
surrounding the access and use of information technologies.

15. Integrating 21st Century Skills with Content
These Skills are about the thinking processes and
behaviors students will use as they learn subject
area content and work with others to deepen their
understanding of the content. As the 21st century
skills are integrated into content, some key design
principles include:

16. • Connecting the content knowledge to real-world applications and
problems situations that enable students to see how they are learning
connects with their lives and the world around them.
• Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning by focusing on projects
and problems that require students to use the content knowledge in new
ways and to extend their understanding through collaboration with others.
• Helping students understand and monitor the thinking processes they are
using by including metacognitive activities that ask students to reflect on
their use of thinking structures and the effectiveness of the thinking
strategies they employed.
• Using technology to help students access, analyze, organize and share
what they are learning and allow students to independently locate
appropriate tools for the task.
• Providing opportunities for students to become “Creators as well as
consumers of published information”.

17. • Engaging students in solving complex problems that require higher order
thinking and application of content and that result in new perspectives
and solution to problems.
• Providing opportunities for students to work collaborative as they gather
information, solve problems, share ideas, and generate new ideas.
• Developing Life and career skills by creating opportunities for students to
become self-directed learners.
• Helping students make connections between subjects, concepts and ideas
and with others, including those outside of the classroom.

18. Instruction that meets the needs of today’s
students will incorporate:
• A variety of learning opportunities 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 and beyond the
classroom
• High levels of visualization and the use of visuals to increase
understanding
• Frequent, formative assessments including the use of self-assessment.

19. The 21st Century Teacher
There are essential skills for the Digital learners that
teachers should consider in giving appropriate
activities and assessments to the learners. We know
they are students centric, holistic, they are teaching
about how to learn as much as teaching about the
subject area. We know too, That they must be 21st
Century learners as well. To meet the demands of the
Digital Education, the 21st Century Educator should
acquire the following characteristics:

20. 1. The Adaptor
The 21st century teacher is an adaptor.
Harnessed as we are to an assessment
focused education model the 21st century
Educator must be able to adapt the curriculum
and the requirements to teach to the
curriculum in imaginative ways.

21. 2. The Visionary
Imagination, a key component of adaptability,
is a crucial component of the educator of
today and tomorrow.

22. 3. The Collaborator
♦ As an educator we must be able to leverage these
collaborative tools to enhance an captivate our learners.
Also we must be a collaborators; sharing, contributing,
adapting and inventing.

23. 4. The Risk Taker
♦ A 21st century educator must take risks and some times
surrender yourself to students knowledge.

24. 5. The Learner
♦ We expect our students to be life-long learners.

25. 6. The Communicator
♦ The 21st century teachers are fluent in tools and
technologies that enable communication and collaboration.

26. 7. The Model
♦ The digital teachers must model the behaviors that are
expected from their student.

27. 8. The Leader
♦ Leadership, like clear goals and objectives is
crucial to the success or failure of any project.