The Digital Learner and 21st Century Teacher

1. The Digital Learner And 21st
Century Teacher

2. The 21st Digital Learner
• The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the Digital Age – a time
unprecedented growth in teachnology and its subsequent information
explosion. Numerous studies and reports have emerged over the past decade
that seek to identify the life, career, and learning skills that define the skills
needed for success in the 21st century world.
• There are some differences in how the skills are categorized or interpreted,
there are also many commonalities. Common skills across most of the
studies include:

3. 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.

4. 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 ordere to improve
and maximaze creative efforts.
• Demonstraet imagination and curiosity

5. Work Creatively with Others
• Develop, Implements, 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 originally and inventiveness in work and understand the real
wolrd limits to adopting new ideas.
• View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and
innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent
mistakes.

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

7. 2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Applying higher order thinking to new
problmes and issues, using appropriate
reasoning as they effectively anlyze the
problem and make decisions about the
most effective ways to solve the problem.

8. Reason Effectively
•Use various types of
reasoning (e.g, inductive,
deductive, etc.) as a
appropriate to the situation.

9. Use Systems Thinking
•Analyze how parts of a whole
interact with each other to
produce overall outcomes in
complex systems.

10. Make Judgement and Decisions
• Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and
beliefs
• Analyze and evaluate major altenative points of view
• Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
• Interpret information and draw conclusion based on the best analysis
• Reflect critically on learning experience and processes

11. Solve Problems
•Solve different kinds of non-familiar
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 contexts
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 including knowledge, values,
attitudes, and intentions
• Use communication for a range of purposes (e,g to inform, instruct,
motivate, and persuade) and in diverse environment (including multi-
lingual) utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to
judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact.

14. 4. Collaboration
Working with others
respectfully and effectively to
create, use and share knowledge,
solutions and innovations.

15. Collaborative with Others
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with
diverse teams
• Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making
necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
• Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and
value the individual contributions made by each team
member

16. accessing analyzing,
synthesizing, creating and
sharing information from
multiple sources.
5. Information Management

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 8. Cultural Awareness
Developing cultural competence in
working with others by recognizing
and respecting cultural differences and
work with others from a wide range
of cultural and social backgrounds.

20. Information, Media and
technology Skills

21. Information Literacy
Access and Evaluate information
•Access information efficiently (time) and
effectively (sources)
•Evaluate information critically and
competenly

22. Use and Manage Information
• Use information accurately and creativity for the issue or
problem at hand
• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of
sources.
• Apply fundamental understanding of the ethical/legat
issues surrounding the access and use of information.

23. Media Literacy
Anlayze Media
• Understand both how and why media messages are constructed and for
what purposes
• Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values an
dpoints 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

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

25. ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy
Apply Technology Effectively
• Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and
communicate information
• Use digital technologies (e.g, computers, PDA’s, media player, GPS,
etc)
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues
surrounding the access and use of information technologies.

26. The 21st Century Teacher
There are essential skills for the digital learners that teachers
should consider in giving appropriate activities and assessments to
their learners. We know they are student centric, holistic, they are
teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject
area. We know, that they must be 21st century learners as well. But
teachers are more than this. To meet the demands of the digital
education, the 21st century educator should acquire the following
charteristic.

27. 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.

28. • They must also be able to adapt software and hardware designed for a
business model into tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and abilities.
• They must also 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.
• As an educator, they must understand and apply different learning styles.
They must also be able to adapt our teaching style to be inclusive of different
models of learning

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

30. • They must see the potential in the emerging tools and web technologies,
grasp these and manipulate them to serve their needs.
• The visionary teacher can look at others ideas and envisage how they would
use these in their class.
• The visionary also 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.

31. 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.

32. 4. The Risk Taker
How can you as an educator to know
all these things? How can you teach
them how to use them? There are so
many, so much to learn.

33. • A 21st Century Educator must take risks and some times surrender
yourself to the students knowledge.
• Have a vison 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 inavigate
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.

34. 5. The learner
We expect our student to be long learners. How
many schools have the phrase “life long learners”
in their mission statements and objectives. We too
must continue to absorb new possibilities and
experiences. We must endeavor to stay current. The
21st Century teacher or educator must learn and
adapt.

35. 6. The Communicators
The 21st Century Teachers are fluent in tools and
technologies that enable communication and
collaboration. They know how to use different
media in communaction. It allows students to be
able to express their insights and share their
thoughts in a topic or any issues that concern
them.

36. 7. The Model
The Digital teacher must model the behaviors that are expected from their
students, Today and Tomorrow more so, there is an expectation that teachers
will teach values.
The educators are often the most consistent part of pour student life.
Teachers will see the students more often than their parents.
The 21st Century Educators also models reflective practice, whether it’s the
quite, personal inspection of their teaching and learning, or through
reflective 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 is crucial to the
success or failure of any
project.

39. Facilitating 21st Century Learning
ICT is an abbreviation for Information and Comunication
Technologies. Tyhis is a vast variety of tools and technologies
encompassing personal computing, the internet, phones, fax and
everything in between. In facilitatying 21st Century learning, there
are three factors that administrators and educators are deliberately
considering in the implementation of technology in Education.

40. 1. Resources
This is the physical and electronic
tools and materials available to the
teacher in the classroom.

41. The availability of tools like:
• Interactive whiteboards
• Calssroom desktop computers
• Pods of laptops or one to one programs
• PDA’s, ipods and cellphones
• Educationally focused software
• Learning and content management systems
• Video and audioconferencing
• Media production facilities
• Learning spaces for the 21st Century

42. 2. skills
• Skills, fall into two categories; Technical and Pedagogical. By
technical skills, it refers to the ability to operate the resource
provide to you. The ability as a 21st Century teacher to asdapt,
adopt and modify. The confidence and compentence to teach
and facilitate the use of these technologies. The second
category, pedagogical skills, is the more important of the two.
Strengths in pedagogy can and will make up for deficits in
technical ability

43. 3. Curriculum
Does our curricula reflect 21st Century learning? Are our
assessement models reflective of the world our students are in or
will be in ?
integrating curricula that support ICT integration are dynamic.
The use of ICTs is mandatory and global, inclusive and specific.
The selection of tools and resources are curriculum driven. These
units are constantly reviewed.