by: Janine Grace M. Dadap

1. The 21st century Digital Learner

2. The 21st century dawned as the
beginning of the Digital Age
Time of unprecedented growth in technology and its
subsequent information explosion.
Tools for information access and management made
such an impact on the way we live, work, shop and
play.
Identify the life, career, and learning skills that define
the skills needed for success in the 21st century
world.
Common skills across most of the studies include:

3. 1. Creativity and Innovation
 Think Creatively
 Work Creatively with Others
 Implement Innovations
2. Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving
 Reason Effectively
 Use Systems Thinking
 Make Judgements and Decisions
 Solve Problems
3. Communication
 Communicate Clearly
4. Collaboration
 Collaborate with Others
5. Information Management
6. Effective Use of
Technology
7. Career and Life Skills
8. Cultural Awareness

4. Information, Media and
Technology Skills

5. 1. Information Literacy
 Access and Evaluate Information
 Use and Manage Information
2. Media Literacy
 Analyze Media
 Create Media Products
3. ICT (INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS
AND TECHNOLOGY) Literacy
 Apply Technology Effectively

6. Integrating 21st Century
Skills with Content

7.  Connecting the content
knowledge to real-world
applications and problem
situations that enable
students to see how what
they are learning connects
with their lives and the
world around them. The
work that is asked of
students must be authentic
work that is relevant and
that mirrors real life.
 Emphasizing deep
understanding of the
learning by focusing on
projects and problems that
require students to use the
content knowledge in new
days and to extend their
understanding through
collaboration with others.

8.  Helping students understand and
monitor the thinking processes
they are using by including
metacognitive activities taht ask
students to reflect on their use of
thinking structures and the
effectiveness of the thinking
strategies they employed."The
highest ranked skills for students
entering the workforce were not
facts and basic skills; they were
applied skills that enable workers
to use the knowledge and basic
skills they have required."
 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" (Apple, 2008) by
providing oppurtunities for
creating and verifying their own
entries in collaborative sites and
evaluating contributions of others.

9.  Engaging students in
solving complex problems
that require higher order
thinking and application of
content and that result in
new perpectives and
solutions to problems.
 Providing opppurtunities 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 who take
responsibility for their own
learning and who learn to
work effectively with
others.
 Helping students to make
connections between
subjects, concepts and ideas
and with others, including
those outside of the
classroom.

10. How Should Instruction
Change to Prepare Students
for Success in the 21st
Century?

11. 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

12. The 21st Century Teacher

13. The 21st Century Teacher, what are the
characteristics we would expect to see in a
21st Century Educator. Meet the demands
of the Digital Education, the 21st Century
Educator should acquire the following
characteristics:

14. The Adaptor
The Visionary
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
The Learner
The Communicator
The Model
The Leader

15. Facilitating 21st Century Learning
1. Resources
 this is the physical and electronic tools and materials available
to the teacher in the classroom.
2. Skills
 Technical skills refers to the ability to operate the resources
provided to you.
 Pedagogical skills make up for deficits in technical ability and
the more important of the two.
3. Curriculum
 Integrating curricula that support ICT intergration are
dynamic. The selection of tools and resources are curriculum
driven.

16. The Digital Divide
Digital native is a term for people born in the
digital era, i.e., Generation X and younger. It
is also reffered to as the "Generation" or is
described as having been born with "digital
DNA". It speaks and breathe the language of
computers and the culture of the web into
which they were born.
Digital immigrant refers to those born before
about 1964 and who grew up in a pre-
computer world. It deals with technology as
naturally as those who grew up with it.

17. Digital Immigrants
fall into the
following three
major groups:
Avoiders
Reluctant adopters
Enthusiastic adopters
Natives fall into
the following three
major groups:
Avoiders
Minimalists
Enthusiastic participants

18. Categories According to a Person's
Relationship to Technology
Avoider, The Luddites are true avoiders of modern
technologies.
Minimalist, Members of this group use technology
reluctantly.
Tourists, these are the people who feel like visitors in
the digital world.
Enthusiastic or Eager Adopter, This group has fun
with technology!
Innovator, Members of this group are not only
enthusiastic, they work with technology to improve it.

19. Thank You For Listening!
I hope you enjoyed and
learned :)
- Janine Grace M. Dadap