2. Preparing Students for the 21st Century Students need to be able to retrieve, evaluate, and manipulate real-world information to enrich their problem-solving skills. It is more than just delivering instruction, the students need to interact with the information gained. Instructional reform needs to become part of the educational realm of teaching that begins to integrate technology for real-world situations that will create life-long learning.
3. Preparing Students for the 21st Century http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE&feature=related
4. 21st-Century Knowledge and Skills These skills are needed to succeed in work, school, and life: Knowledge of core subjects 21st century themes Learning and innovation skills Information, media, and technology skills Life and career skills
6. Linking Educational Reform & Technology Moving from Teacher-centered to Student-centered instruction The student needs to understand the world around them and not imitate the content. Puzzlement phenomenon Knowledge
9. Computer: The tool to enhance learning by providing real-world data to manipulate
10. Lesson: it needs to be student-centered, problem based, technologically authentic
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12. “Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” Joe Exline
13. Questions Must I use a inquiry-based learning approach in my classroom to use computers as a tool? Won’t I have to spend a great deal of time to develop these units of instruction? Won’t every student need a computer to use it as a tool?
