Let us know more about the digital learners and the 21st century teachers of today.

1. Digital Learner
and
The 21st Century Teacher

2. Let’s know more about…
 The Digital Learner
 The 21st Century Teachers

3. The Digital Learner

4. “Our students have changed radically.
Today’s students are no longer the people
our educational system was designed to
teach.” (Prensky 2001)

5.  The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the Digital Age – a time of unprecedented growth
in technology and its subsequent information explosion.
Numerous studies and reports have emerged over the past decade 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

6. Common skills across most of the studies include:
 Creativity and Innovation
 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
 Communication
 Collaboration
 Information Management
 Effective Use of Technology
 Career and Life Skills
 Cultural Awareness

7. Creativity and Innovation
Using knowledge and understanding to create new
ways of thinking in order to find solutions to new
problems and to create new products and services

8. Applying Creativity and Innovation through...
 Think Creatively
 Work Creatively with Others
 Implement Innovations

9. Think Creatively
 Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)
 Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
 Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize
creative efforts

10. Work Creatively with Others
 Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
 Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work
 Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
 View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical
process of small successes and frequent mistakes

11. Implement Innovations
 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in
which the innovation will occur

12. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
 Applying higher order thinking to new problems and
issues, using appropriate reasoning as they effectively
analyze the problem and make decisions about the most
effective ways to solve the problem.

13. Applying Critical Thinking and Problem Solving through…
 Reason Effectively
 Make Judgments and Decisions
 Solve Problems

14. Reason Effectively
 Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the
situation Use Systems Thinking
 Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes
in complex systems

15. Make Judgments and Decisions
 Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs
 Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view
 Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
 Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
 Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes

16. Solve Problems
 Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative
ways
 Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to
better solutions

17. Communication
Communicating effectively in a wide variety of
forms and contexts for a wide range of purposes
and using multiple media and technologies.

18. Applying Communication through…
 Communicate Clearly
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of
forms and contexts
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
• Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
• Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess
their impact
• Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)

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

20. Applying Collaboration through…
 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

21. Information Management
 Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating and
sharing information from multiple sources.

22. 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

23. 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 results

24. Applying Career and Life Skills through…
 Adapt to Change
 Be Flexible

25. Adapt to Change
 Adapt to varied roles, jobs responsibilities, schedules and contexts
 Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities

26. Be Flexible
 Incorporate feedback effectively
 Deal positively with praise, setbacks and criticism
 Understand, negotiate and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable
solutions, particularly in multi-cultural environments

27. 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.

28. Information, Media and Technology Skills
To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to exhibit a
range of functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and
technology.

29. Information, Media and Technology Skills Includes…
 INFORMATION LITERACY
 MEDIA LITERACY
 ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) LITERACY

30. Information Literacy
Access and Evaluate Information
• Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)
• Evaluate information critically and competently
Use and Manage Information
• Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information

31. 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 view are included or excluded, and how
media can influence beliefs and behaviors
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of media
 Create Media 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

32. ICT (Information, Communication and Technology) Literacy
 Apply Technology Effectively
• Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information
• Use digital technologies (computers, PDAs, media players, GPS, etc.), communication/networking tools and
social networks appropriately to access, manage, 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

33. 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 with others to deepen their understanding of the content.
 Organizing instruction around important concepts and “big ideas” helps students create conceptual structures
for storing, retrieving and using information in new and unanticipated ways
 The keys to integrating 21st century skills into the classroom are application, connections and participation

34. How Should Instruction Change to Prepare Students for Success in the 21st Century?
 we need to plan instruction with an understanding of the “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001) who have grown up
in the Digital Age and who expect learning to be interactive, engaging and up-to-date.
 The focus for instruction shifts from “knowing” to being able to use and apply information in relevant ways.
 we need to plan instruction with an understanding of the “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001) who have grown up
in the Digital Age and who expect learning to be interactive, engaging and up-to-date.

35. The 21st Century Teachers

36. The 21st Century Educator should acquire the following Characteristics:
 The Adaptor
 The Visionary
 The Collaborator
 The Risk Taker
 The Learner
 The Communicator
 The Model
 The Leader

37. The Adaptor
 The teacher should always make their
teaching styles adaptive to the new
curriculum requirements.

38. The Visionary
Teachers should be
imaginative. They need to
foresee the potential of the
emerging technologies.

39. The Collaborator
 Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN, MySpace,
Second life- as a teacher they must be able to
leveragethese collaborative tools to enhance and
captive their learners.

40. The Risk Taker
 Teachers shouldn’t wait for others to take
the initiative, they have to be the lead

41. The Learner
Teachers must continue to absorb new
possibilities and experiences. They must
endeavor to stay current.

42. The Communicator
 Teachers should be fluent in the use of
communication & Information
technologies,

43. The Model
 Teachers should model the behaviors
that they expect from their students-
tolerance, acceptance, a wider view than
just their curricula areas, global
awareness, and reflection.

44. The Leader
 Teacher leads by example championing
processes and modelling skills-walks the talk
and they must set clear goals and objectives
crucial to the success of a project.

45. That’s all and Thank you!!! ^_^
Prepared by:
Shine P. Quinapondan