This document summarizes a presentation given by Michelle Rose to educators about how to prepare students for the 21st century. It discusses how today's students need to collaborate, communicate, and have authentic learning experiences. It proposes that educators act as "change agents" by providing access to information, global social interactions, and multimodal learning tools. Specifically, it recommends the website Rcampus as a free, secure, easy-to-use platform that allows educators to create online learning modules and collaborative activities for students.

1. 21st Century Residents in our Time
A presentation
to
“Change Agents”
By Michelle Rose
Walden University
Submitted to Dr. Debra Chester
February 6, 2013

2. Who are 21st Century
Residents?
In a world that is changing and technology that simultaneously
evolves to suit the changes, we need to be mobile in our strategies
to embrace the technologies and the changes to facilitate our
students. Our students are the residents that will run the 21st
Century. They are youths of today.
They have a need to do, participate, collaborate, initiate, create and
communicate. How can we as educators facilitate the needs of our
students?

3. Change Agents?
As educators, we are the Change Agents.
We can effect changes that will ensure our
students have pertinent preparation for
function in the society.
• Democratization of Knowledge
We have the power to offer our students
to free access to information, real world
experiences

4. Participatory Learning
• Children participating in learning activities.
• According to Vygotsky, children develop
cognitive skills through social interaction. We
provide social interactions for our students
here. However, we can widen the scope of
interaction by going global.

5. Authentic Learning
In order for our students to learn; it is best to help
them to gain experience through interaction. We
should provide authentic and real-world
experiences for them.

6. Multimodal Learning
The way we present lessons and planned learning
activities are just not attractive anymore.
We need to ‘get with the times’

7. Ever heard of the virtual classroom?
Nowadays, ‘web 2.0 tools are offering strikingly
different, more participatory and interactive
ways for people to learn…’ (Lemke & Coughlin,
2009). We have free access to valuable
resources, courses and information sources
and experts (Lemke & Coughlin, 2009). Why
should we teach the same way, when students
learn in different ways?

8. Here’s the Assistance you’ve always
wanted….
https://www.rcampus.com/index.cfm?
This is a website that allows educators the
freedom to create and implement learning
modules with students.
It is free and has open access;
Highly secure;
Collaborative;
Easy and quick and lifelong

9. About Rcampus
They are Highly secure
• To protect the privacy of both faculty and
students, we take extra measures to provide a
highly secure environment and do not share,
publish, or sell any personal or confidential
data.

10. They are Collaborative
Students and faculty can
collaborate in a number of ways, through
communication tools within their courses,
websites, communities, and ePortfolios, to
collaboration on building and sharing content.

11. Will our students understand how to
use it?
We are User-Centric
• Our tools are truly user-centric -
users are in control. Our intuitive
interface also allows access to all
related tools seamlessly from any
single location.

12. Can we afford it?
They offer Flexible Licensing
• RCampus offers various licensing, hosting and
cloud options to meet every need and every
budget.

13. How will we implement this?
We are Scalable
Start small and expand per your
institution needs.
We could begin with my class as a pilot
project with regular observations,
reports and feedback from colleagues.

14. What about lesson plans?
Who wants more work?
We are Comprehensive
• Do all your work within a single login
- whether it is managing your courses
and academic work, or collaboration
and networking with others.

15. Is it complicated?
They are Easy-to-use
• Save time with our intuitive toolset to streamline your
teaching and learning needs. We are our own users, so
we've designed our system to be easy-to-use. You can
quickly build courses and classes, websites, ePortfolios,
rubrics, and much more.

16. References
Hargis, J., & Schofield, K. (2007). Integrating online learning into elementary classrooms. In R. Blomeyer, & C. Cavanaugh (Eds.),
What works in K–12 online learning (pp. 33–47). Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.
Retrieved from the Walden University Library using the Education Research Complete database.
Lemke, C., & Coughlin, E. (2009). The change agents. Educational Leadership, 67(1), 54–5 9.
Moreno, R., & Mayer, R. (2007). Interactive multimodal learning environments. Educational Psychology Review, 19(3),
309–326.
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