Digital Learners and 21st Century Teacher

1. The 21st Century Digital
Learners
Irene A. Muñez
STUDENT

2. The Digital Age
a time of unprecedented growth in technology
and its subsequent information explosion.

3. Common Skills
- while there are some differences in how the skills are
categorized or interpreted, there are also many
commonalities. It include:
1. Creativity and Innovation
2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
3. Communication
4. Collaboration
5. Information Management
6. Effective Use of Technology
7. Carrer and Life Skills
8. Cultural Awarenes

4. 1. Creativity and Innovation
-using knowledge and understanding to create new
ways of thinking in order to find solutions to new
problems and to create new products and services.
Think Creatively
Work Creatively with Others
Implement Innovations

5. Think Creatively
• Use a wide range of idea
creation techniques (such as
brainstorming)
• Create new and worthwhile
ideas (both incremental and
radical concepts)
• Elaborate, refine, analyze
and evaluate ideas in order
to improve and maximize
craetive efforts
• Demonstrate imagination
and curiosity

6. Work Creatively with Others
• Develop, implement and
communicate new ideas to others
effectively
• Be open and responsive to new and
diverse perspectives; incorporate
group input and feedback into the
work
• Demonstrate originality and
inventivenes in work and understand
the real world limits to adopting new
ideas
• View failure as an opportunity to
learn; understand that creativity and
inovation is a long term ,cylical
process of small succces and
frequent mistakes

7. Implement Innovations
• Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful
contribution to the field in which the innovation
will occur.

8. 2. Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving
-applying higher order thinking to new problems and
issues, using appropriate reasoning as they effectively
analyze the problem and make decisions about the most
effective ways to solve the problem.
Reason Effectively
Use Systems Thinking
Make Judgements and Decisions
Sove Problems

9. Reason Effectively
-use a various types of
reasoning( e.g., inductive,
deductive, etc.) as
appropriate to the situation
Use Systems Thinking
-anyze how parts of a whole
interact with each other to
produce overall outcomes in
complex sytems.

10. Make Judgments & Decision
• 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

11. Solve Problems
• Solve different kinds of non-famillar problems in
both conventional and innovative ways
• Identify and ask significant questions that clarify
various points of view and lead to better solutions

12. 3. Communication
- communicating effectively in a wide variety of forms
and context for a wide range of purposes and using
multiple media and technologies.

13. Communicate Clearly
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using
oral,written and nonverbal communication skills in a
variety of forms and contexts
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, incuding
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 ther effectiveness as prior as well as
assess their impact

14. 4.Collaboration
-working with others respectfully and effectively to
create, use and share knowledge, solutions and
innovations.
Collaborate with Others

15. Collaborate with Others
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully
with diverse teams
• Exercise flexibilty and willingness to be helpful in making
necessary compromise to accoplish a common goal
• Assume shared responsiblity for collaborative work, and
value the invidual contibutions made by each team
member

16. 5. Information Management
-accessing , anaylzing, synthesizing ,creating and
sharing information from multiple sources.

17. 6. Effective Use of Technology
– creating the capacity to identify the use of technology
efficiently,effectively and ethically as a tool to
access,organize,evaluate and share information.
7.Career and Life Skills
-developing skills for becoming self-directed,independent
learners and workers who can adapt to change, manage
projects, take responsibility for their work ,lead others and
produce results.
8. Cultural Awareness
-developing cultural wareness in working with others by
recognizing and respecting cultural differences and work
with others from a wide range of cultural and social
backgrounds

18. Information, Media and
Technology Skills

19. Information Literacy
 Access and Evaluate Information
Information
• Access information efficiently( time) and
effectively ( sources)
• 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
wide variety of sources
• Apply a fundamental understanding of
the ethical/legal issues surrounding the
access and use of information

20. Media Literacy
 Anayze Media
• Understand both how and why media
messages are constructed and for what
purposes
• Examine how individual interpret messages
differently, how values and points of vie 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
 Create Media Products
• Understand and utilize the most appropriate
creation tools,characterestics, and conventions
• Understand and effectively utilize the most
appropriate expressions and interpretations in
diverse,multi-cultural environment

21. ICT Literacy
 Appy technology Effectively
• Use technology as a tool to research,organize,evaluate, and
communicate information
• Use digital technogies, communication/networking tools, and social
networks appropriately to access,manage,integrate, evaluate, and
create information to successfully function in knowledge economy
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal sorrounding the
access and use of information technogies

22. The 21st Century
Teacher

23. 21st Century Teacher
Characteristics
-to meet the demands of Digital Education, teacher
should acquire the following characteristics:
1. Tha Adaptor
2. The Vissionary
3. The Collaborator
4. The Risk Taker
5. The learner
6. The Communicator
7. The Model
8. The Leader

24. 1. The Adaptor
• be able to adapt the
curriculum and the
requirements to teach to
the curriculum in
imaginative ways.
• must also be able to adapt
software and hardware
designed for a business
model into tools utilisable
by a variety of age groups
and abilities.

25. •must be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching
experience.When it all goes wrong in the middle of a
class, when the technologies fail, the show must go on.

26. • understand and apply different learning styles. we
must be able to adapt our teaching style to be
inclusive of different modes of learning.

27. 2. The Vissionary
• must see the potential in
the emerging tools and
web technologies, grasp
these and manipulate
them to serve their needs.

28. • can look at others ideas
and envisage how they
would use these in their
class.

29. • looks across the disciplines and through the curricula.
They can make links that reinforce and value learning in
other areas, and leverage other fields to reinforce their
own teaching and the learning of their students.

30. 3. The Collaborator
• Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN, MySpace, Second life - as
an educator we must be able to leverage these collaborative tools
to enhance and captivate our learners. We too, must be
collaborators; sharing, contributing, adapting and inventing.

31. 4. The Risk Taker
• must take risks and
some times surrender
yourself to the
students knowledge.
• Have a vision of what
you want and what the
technology can
achieve, identify the
goals and facilitate the
learning.

32. • must take risks and some times
surrender yourself to the
students knowledge. Have a
vision of what you want and
what the technology can
achieve, identify the goals and
facilitate the learning.
• Use the strengths of the digital
natives to understand and
navigate new products, have the
students teach each other. The
learning pyramid shows that the
highest retention of knowledge
comes from teaching others.
Trust your students.

33. 5.The Learner
• We expect our students to be life long learners. How many
schools have the phrase “life long learners” in there mission
statements and objectives. We too must continue to absorb
experiences and knowledge. We must endeavour to stay
current. Wemust learn and adapt.

34. 6. The Communicator
• They are fluent in tools and technologies that enable
communication and collaboration. It allows students to
express their insights and share their thoughts in a topic
or any issues that concern them.

35. 7. The Model
• We must model the
behaviours that we expect
from our students. Today
and tommorow more so,
there is an expectation
that teachers will teach
values.
• we are often the most
consistent part of our
student life. Teachers will
see the students more
often, for longer and more
reliably than their parents.

36. • models reflective practice, whether its the quiet,
personal inspection of their teaching and learning,
or through reflective practice via blogs, twitter and
other medium, these educators look both inwards
and outwards.

37. These teachers also model a number of other
characteristics. These are not necessarily associated
with ICT or the curriculum, but are of equal importance.
They model:
• tolerance
• acceptance
• a wider view than just their curricula areas
• global awareness
• reflection

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