The 21st century dawned as the beginning of the Digital Age - a time of unprecedented growth in technology and its subsequent information explosion.

1. The 21st Century Digital Learner
Prepared by: Reychelle Grace L. Maglasang

2. What is Digital Age?
• Also called as the
information age
• defined as the time
period starting in the
1970s with the
introduction of the
personal computer with
subsequent technology
introduced providing the
ability to transfer
information freely and
quickly.

3. What is Digital Learning?
Digital Learning is
learning facilitated by
technology that gives
students some
element of control
over time, place, path
and/or pace.

4. Time
Learning is no longer restricted to the school
day or the school year. The Internet and a
proliferation of Internet access devices have
given students the ability to learn anytime.

5. Place
Learning is no longer restricted within the walls of a
classroom. The Internet and a proliferation of Internet
access devices have given students the ability to learn
anywhere and everywhere.

6. Path
Learning is no longer restricted to
the pedagogy used by the
teacher. Interactive and
adaptive software allows
students to learn in their own
style, making learning personal
and engaging. New learning
technologies provide real-time
data that gives teachers the
information they need to adjust
instruction to meet the unique
needs of each student.

7. Pace
Learning is no longer
restricted to the pace of
an entire classroom of
students. Interactive and
adaptive software allows
students to learn at their
own pace, spending
more or less time on
lessons or subjects to
achieve the same level
of learning.

8. While there are some differences in
how the skills are categorized or
interpreted, there are also may
commonalities. Common skills across
most the studies include:

9. 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 new
products and
services.

10. 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 ideas in order to
improve and maximize creative efforts
• Demonstrate imagination and curiosity

11. 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 originally and
inventiveness in work and
understand the real world limits
to adopting new ideas
• View failure as an opportunity to
learn; understand that creativity
an innovation is a long-term,
cyclical process of small success
and frequent mistakes

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

13. 2. 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.

14. Reason Effectively
• Use various types of
reasoning (e.g., 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 Judgements 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 on
both conventional and innovative ways
• Identify and ask significant questions that clarify
various points of view and lead to better solutions

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

18. Communicate Clearly
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and
nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and context
• 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) and in diverse environments
(including multi-lingual)
Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their
effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact

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

20. 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. 5. Information Management
• Accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, creating and sharing
information from multiple sources.
6. Effective Use of Technology
• Creating the capacity to identify and use technology
efficiently, effectively and ethically as a toll to access,
organize, evaluate and share information.

22. 7. 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.
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.

23. Information, Media and
Technology Skills

24. 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

25. 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 behaviours
• 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

26. ICT (Information, Communications
and Technology) Literacy

27. Apply Technology Effectively
• Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate, and
communicate information
• Use digital technologies (e.g., 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

28. The 21st Century Teacher

29. To meet the demands of the Digital
Education, the 21st Century Educator
should acquire the following
characteristics:

30. 1. The Adaptor
The 21st Century teacher is an
adaptor. Harnessed as we are
to an assessment focused
education model the 21st
Century Educator must be
able to adapt the curriculum
and the requirements to teach
to the curriculum in
imaginative ways.
• .
• They must be able to adapt
software and hardware
designed for business model
into tools utilized by a variety
of age groups and abilities.
• They must also be able to
adapt a dynamic teaching
experience . When it all goes
wrong in the middle of a
class, when the technologies
fail, the show must go on.
• As an educator, they must
understand and apply
different learning styles. They
must also be able to adapt
our teaching style to be
inclusive of different modes of
learning

31. 2. The Visionary
Imagination, a key component of
adaptability, is a crucial
component of the educator of
today and tomorrow.
• They must see the potential in the
emerging tools and web
technologies, grasp these and
manipulate them to serve their
needs. If we look at the
technologies we currently see
emerging, how many are
developed for education?
• The visionary teacher can look at
other’s ideas and envisage how
they would use these in their
class.
• The visionary also looks across
the disciplines and through the
curricula. They can make links
that reinforce and value learning
in other areas, and leverage other
fields to reinforce their own
teaching and the learning of their
students.

32. 3. The Collaborator
• Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN, MySpace, Second
life – as an educator we must be able to leverage these
collaborative tools to enhance and captivate our learners.
We too must be collaborators; sharing, contributing,
adapting, and inventing.

33. 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.
• A 21st Century Educator must
take risks and some times
surrender yourself to the
students knowledge
• Have a vision of what you
want and what the technology
can achieve, identify the goals
and facilitate the learning.
• Use the strengths of the digital
natives to understand and
navigate new products, have the
students teach each other.
• The learning pyramid shows that
the highest retention of
knowledge comes from teaching
others. Trust your students.

34. 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. We too must continue to absorb
new possibilities and experiences. We must endeavour to
stay current. The 21st Century teacher or educator must
learn and adapt.

35. 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. It
allows students to be able to express their insights and
share their thoughts in a topic or any issues that concern
them.

36. 7. The Model
• The Digital Teacher must model the
behaviours that are expected from their
students. Today and tomorrow more so,
there is an expectation that teachers will
teach values.
• The Educators are often the most
consistent part of our student life.
Teachers will see the students more
often than their parents.
• The 21st Century Educator also models
reflective practice, whether it’s the quite,
personal inspection of their teaching and
learning, or through reflective practice
via blogs, twitter and other medium,
these educators look both inwards and
outwards.

37. These teachers also model a number of other characteristics.
These are not necessarily associated with ICT or the
curriculum, but are of equal importance. They model:
• Tolerance
• Acceptance
• A wider view than just their curricula areas
• Global awareness
• Reflection

38. 8. The Leader
• Leadership, like clear goals and objectives
is crucial to the success or failure of any
project.

39. “Technology is just a tool. In
terms of getting the kids
working together and
motivating them, the teacher is
most important.” – Bill Gates