This document discusses the role of 21st century educational technology and the digital learner. It outlines 8 skills needed for 21st century learners: creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, information management, technology use, career/life skills, and cultural awareness. It also describes 7 characteristics of 21st century teachers: being an adaptor, visionary, collaborator, risk-taker, learner, communicator, model, and leader. Teachers must help students develop these skills by using new technologies, tools, and teaching methods that engage and prepare students for the digital age.

1. THE ROLE OF 21ST CENTURY
IN EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
BY: IAN DAVE ABRASADA

2. “THE 21ST CENTURY DIGITAL
LEARNER”
THE 21ST CENTURY DAWNED AS THE
BEGINNING OF DIGITAL AGE- A TIME OF
UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH IN
TECHNOLOGY AND ITS SUBSEQUENT
INFORMATION EXPLOSION.

3. SOME DIFFERENCES IN HOW THE SKILLS ARE
CATEGORIZED OR INTERPRETED, THERE ARE ALSO
MANY COMMONALITIES
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 a new products and services.
THINK CREATIVELY:
* Use wide range of idea criterion techniques
*Create new and worthwhile ideas.
*Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate ideas in
order to improve and maximize creative efforts.
*Demonstrate imagination and curiosity.

4. 2.Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
-Applying higher order thinking to new problems
and issues, using appropriate reasoning.
* Reason Effectively - use various type of reasoning
(e.g inductive and deductive)
* Use Systems Thinking – Anayze how parts of
whole interact with each other to produce overall
outcomes in complex systems.

5. 3. 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
nonverbal communication skills in variety of forms and contexts.
* listen effectively to decipher meaning, including , knowledge , values
, attitudes and intentions.
* Use communication for a range purposes (e.g., to motivate ,instruct
and persuade)

6. 4. COLLABORATION
- Working with others respectfully and effectively to create, use and share
knowledge, solution and innovation.
Collaborate with Others
* Demonstrate ability and effectively and respectfully with diverse teams.
* Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary
compromises to accomplish common goal.

7. 5. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
- Accessing , analyzing, synthesizing, creating, and
haring information from multiple sources.
6. EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY
-Creating the capacity to identify and use of technology efficiently ,
effectively , and ethically as a tool to access , organize , evaluate and share
information.

8. 7. CAREER AND LIFE SKILLS
- Developing skill for becoming self-directed independent learners and
workers who can adapt to change, manage projects, take responsibility, foe their
work, lead others and produce results.
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.

9. THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHER
- There are essential skills for the
digital learners that teachers should
consider in giving appropriate
activities and assessment to their
learners.

10. CHARACTERISTICS IN 21ST CENTURY TEACHER
1. THE ADAPTOR
-The 21st century is an adaptor. Harnessed as we
are to an assessment focused education model in
the 21st century Educator must be able to adapt the
curriculum and the requirements to teach to the
curriculum in imaginative ways.

11. 2.THE VISIONARY
- Imagination a key component of adaptability, is a crucial
component of the educator of today and tomorrow.
* they must see the potentia in emerging tools and web
technologies .
3. THE COLLABORATOR
- Ning Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN, Second Life - as
an educatorwe must be able to leverage these
collaborative tools to enhance and captivate our learners.

12. 4. THE RISK TAKER
- How can you as an educator know all these things? How can you teach them how to use them?
There are so many, so much to learn
* must take risk and some times surrender yourself to the student knowledge.
* Have a vision of what you want and what the technology can achieve.
5.THE LEARNER
- We expect our students to be life long learners. How many schools have the phrase “life long
learners” In their mission statements and objectives.

13. 6. THE COMMUNICATOR
- THE 21ST CENTURY teachers are fluent in tools and technologies that
enable communication and collaboration. They know how to use different media
in communication.
7. THE MODEL
*The digital teacher must model the behaviors that are expected from their
students.
* The educators are often the most consistent part of students life.

14. 8.THE LEADER
* Leadership, like clear goals and objectives is
crucial to the success or failure of any project.