The document discusses 21st century education and the implications of digital technologies on teaching and learning. It addresses how literacy is changing in the digital age, how learning is becoming more connective and distributed, and how pedagogy needs to shift from a prescriptive to connective approach. Key concepts discussed include social media, web 2.0, convergence, and new media literacies. The document argues that education needs to resemble modern culture and that learning can occur beyond traditional institutions through networks and communities.

1. teaching and learning
in the digital age
Melbourne University Graduate School of Education
Master of Teaching
Sylvia Guidara 19.10.2011

2. 21st Century Education

3. why english matters
“It's hard to imagine what other department is better
suited to helping us prepare, in practical and profound
ways, for our future, for the highly unpredictable changes
in how we read, write, and communicate that are
reshaping school and work in the Information Age.”
Cathy Davidson, Duke University
https://www.hastac.org/

4. essential questions
• What does literacy look like in the digital age?
• How would you define digital age learning?
• What are the implications for what and how we teach /
engage students?
• If digital age students were asked to define essential
literacies for a teacher, what would they include?

5. 21st Century Education

6. the internet landscape | key concepts
media
social
mobile
real time
convergence

7. Buzzwords
Social Media
gather, communicate,
share, collaborate
Web 2.0
social media tools

8. 21st Century Education

9. What would education look like if it resembled
the culture?

10. The death of ‘they’

11. the internet landscape matters in education
what’s important: the properties and dynamics of the internet
landscape – not the tools – and how to evolve with them

12. The New Media Literacies
play
performance
simulation
appropriation
multitasking
distributed cognition
collective intelligence
judgement
transmedia navigation
negotiation
networking
Source: http://techtv.mit.edu

13. Interacting effectively with online information:
Shifts in Learning find | sort | navigate | synthesise | critically analyse |
create | participate | interact safely & ethically

14. pedagogy | shifts in learning

15. 21st Century Education
Rethinking the who, what,
where & when of learning.
From prescriptive to
connective practices.
The delivery & distribution
of learning.
Who participates in
the learning process.
21st Century Education
Diverse learning spaces.

16. pedagogy | learning networks
Beyond the institutionalised logic of the school towards the
network logic of the learning community.
Learning institutions rethinking the possibilities around what
can be learnt, where learning can happen and who is
involved in the learning process.

17. From Social Networks to Learning Communities

18. reflect
• Are students equipped with competencies to communicate
effectively in digital spaces?
• Can students argue, inform, instruct, analyse etc for digital
spaces?
• How would you teach students to write for (and with!)
mobile devices?

19. Responding to opportunities & challenges
Trying to protect students and instructional time by banning
Web 2.0 or setting policies to keep it “safe.”
Preserving existing programmes and practices by using
technology in a way that ‘fits’ into what is already in place.
Taking a progressive approach by allowing technology to
transform the organisation rather than moving it faster and
further on its existing path.

20. Current technology demands a totally different
approach to instructional design and also teaching
methodology. It requires new skills from both teacher
and student.

21. Teachers are the learning professionals and catalysts.
When you put them in the mix with new technology,
you get powerful outcomes.

22. Sylvia Guidara
www.digimuve.com
twitter.com/digimuve
sguidara@me.com