The document discusses how digital learning has changed and may continue to change traditional education. It notes that digital learning allows students to interact across the internet with peers, rather than just between teacher, student, and content. It also suggests digital learning has shifted education towards learning that can happen anytime, anywhere through participation and production rather than just consumption of information. The document raises questions about how these changes have impacted students and teachers' roles at the Hauser school.

1. Re-imagining Teaching Fall 2011 - The MacArthur Foundation
& Learning

2. Traditional vs. Digital Learning
• Traditional view of education involved interaction between teacher, student
and content.
• What does Digital Learning look like?
• What roles do teachers and students take on?

3. Traditional vs. Digital
Learning - Group 1
• The digital learning
environment is “blown open”.
Students interact with others
across the Internet, often
peers.
• What other ways has learning
been “blown open” or
changed?
• Brainstorm ways learning has
changed in your classrooms.
• What new directions are you
planning to go this year?

4. What type of 21st
Century Learners are our
students? Group 2
• Have the laptops changed the
way students learn here at
Hauser?
• Are we participating in these
shifts from “education” to
learning?
• Learning can happen anytime,
anywhere.
• Shift from consumption of
information to participation in
production where core learning
can take place
• Shift from thinking about
institutions to thinking about
networks
• Has the technology created
obstacles for some students?

5. Have laptops impacted the
way students learn? Group 3
• Are students more or less self-
directed?
• Do they learn in ways that
involve peers as well as
adults?
• Are they involved in activities
that engage their passions and
their interests?

6. Has it changed the
teachers’ role? Group 4
• Do you teach differently?
• Are you doing “stand and
deliver”?
• Has your role changed?
• Do you have new challenges
we need to address?