ACTIVITY #1 FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

1. Digital Learners and
21st Century
by: Graceous E. Paypa

2. Digital Learners
1. The 21st Century dawned as the beginning of
the Digital Age- a time of unprecedented growth
in technology and its subsequent information
explosion. Never before have the tools for
information access and management made such
an impact on the way we live, work, shop and
play. New technologies and tools multiply the
market daily and the new technologies of today
are outdated almost as soon as the reach the
market. Numerous studies and reports have
emerged over the past decades that seek to
identify the life, career, and learning skills that
define the skills needed for success in the 21st
century world. While there are some differences
in how the skills are categorized or interpreted,
there are also many commonalities.
2. Common skills across most of the students
include:

4. Creativity and Innovation
 Using knowledge and understanding to create new ways of thinking in order to find
solutions to new problem
 To create new products and services
Think Creatively:
 use a wide range of idea creation techniques (brainstorming)
 Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
 Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate ideas in order to improve and maximize
creative efforts
Work Creatively with Others
 Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
 Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real
world limits to adapting new ideas
Implementing Innovations
 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the
field in which the innovation will occur

6. Communication
Communicating effectively in a wide variety of forms and
contexts for a wide range of purposes and using multiple media
and technologies.
Communicate Clearly
Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and
nonverbalcommunication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge,
values, attitude, and intentions
Use communication for a range of purpose (e.g to inform,
instruct, innovate, and persuade and in diverse environments(
including ,ulti-lingual)
Utilize multiple media and technologies , and know how to
judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact

8. Collaboration
 Working with others respectfully and effectively to
create, use and share knowledge, solutions and
innovations
Collaborate 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

9. Information Management
Accessing, analyzing,
synthesizing, creating, sharing
information from multiple
sources
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.

10. 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 result
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

11. Information, media and
technology skills

12. INFORMATION LITERACY
AccessandEvaluateInformation
Access information efficiently (time
and effectively (sources)
Evaluate informatkion critically and
competently
Useand ManageInformation
Use information accurately and
creatively for the issue or problem at
hand
Mangae flow of informatkon from a
wide variety of sources
Apply a fundmental understanding of
the ethical/legal issuse surounding the
access and use of information

13. MEDIA LITERACY
Analyze Media
 Understand both how and why media
messages are constructed and for
what purposes
 Examine how individuals interpret
messages differently, how values and
points of vies are included or excluded
, and how media can influence beliefs
and behaviours
 Apply fundamental understanding of
the technical/legal issues surrounding
the access and use of media
CreateMedia 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

14. ICT Literacy
Apply Technology Effectively
Use technology as a tool to
research, organize, evaluate and
communicate information
Use digital technologies,
communication/ networking tools and
social networks appropriate to access,
mange, integrate, evaluate and create
information to successfully function in
a knowledge economy
Apply a fundamental understanding
of the ethical/legal issues surrounding
the access and use of information
technologies.

15. Integrating 21st Century Skills with Content
These skills are about the thinking processes and behaviors students will use as they
learn subject area content and work woth others to deepen their understanding of the
content. All of the frameworks emphasize the need to ground 21st century skills in
core content, an expecially in an interdisciplinary fashion. Organizing instruction
around important concepts and “big ideas” helps students create conceptual
structures for stiring,retrieving and using information in anew and unanticipated ways.
As the 21st century skills are integrated into content, come key design principles
include:
1. Connecting the content knowledge to real-world applications and problem
situations
2. Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning
3. Help Students understand and monitor the thinking processes they are using
4. Using technology to help students access, analyze organize and share what
ther are learning and allow students to independentky locate appropriate tools
for th task
5. Providing opportunities to students to become “creators as well as consumers
of published information”
6. Engaging students in solving complex problems that require higher orded
thinking and application of content and that results in new perspectives and
solutions to problems

16. 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
beyond the classroom

17. THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF
A 21ST CENTURY
EDUCATOR

18. There are essential skills for the Digital
learners that should consider in giving
appropriate activities and assessments but what
about the 21st Century Teacher, what are the
characteristics we would expect to see in them?
Must be able to adapt the curriculum
Be able to adapt software and hardware
Be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience
Must understannd and apply different learning styles

19. The Visionary
Must see the potential
in the emerging tools and
web technologies, grasp
and manipulate them
Can look at others
ideas and envisage how
would they use these in
their class
Looks across the
disciplines and through
the curricula

20. Collaborator
Able to leverage these
collaborative tools to
enhance and captivate
our learners
Must be collaborators,
sharing, contributing,
adapting and inventing

21. Risk Taker
Must take risks and some
times surrender yourself to
the students knowledge
Have a vision of what you
want and what technology
can achieve, identify the
goals facilitate learning
Use the strength of the
digital natives to
understand and navigate
new products

22. Learner
We expect our students to
be life-long learners
must continue to absorb
new possibilities and
experiences
must endeavour to stay
current
The 21st Century Teacher
or educator must learn and
adapt

23. Communicator
Are fluent in tools and
technologies that enable
communication and
collaboration
Know how to use
different media in
communication
Allows students to be
able to express their
insight and share their
thoughts

24. Model
Must model the behaviours
that are expected from their
students
Educators are often the
most consistent part of our
student life
They model: Tolerance,
Acceptance, a wider view
than just their curricula areas,
global awareness and
reflection

25. Leader
Clear goals and objectives is crucial to
the success or failure of any project