Re: A View of 21st Century Learners

Of course, I left out a word on one of the slides. Sheesh


With all the noise, it seems incomprehensible that there's more to say, but ...

We *really* need to get a grip on who are the 21st Century Learners. It's not about the numbers. It's about the learning.

Music:
The End of the Beginning from
the album A View from the Top
by Nightowl

Category:

Education

Tags:

• 21st_century
• education
• learners

[Mimizhusband]

Found this via Dr. McCloud's weblog.

Thanks for creating a simple yet significant picture of reality. I used another video to start the 07-08 school year. This is now my choice to create some urgency in my students.

I am considering trying to summarize the "2 Million Minutes" DVD, but your work here is dead on.

Thanks.

[ubex]

Thanks for your kind words.

Some of my own students will be posting their own version of "I am a 21st century learner" in the next few weeks.

We need to start to reshape this conversation.

[dragonsinger57]

great video - i estimate that i spend more time online (at 50) than my 17 & 20 yo children! - mind you i'm also a teacher and passionate about ICT

[ubex]

I'm trying to convince a bunch of us "learners" to post rebuttals. We have GOT to get over the idea that the only learners are people in schools and start addressing the issues of how to get people engaged.

[daddyslackful]

@daniinnc If you're talking about just decoding text - then yes, I guess practice is always good. Concepts, Ideas, information, opinions - CONTENT - is the reason we started reading in the first place. You can get all those things from video, songs, speech..

[daddyslackful]

@trailertrashrnr get fit, eat healthy, die anyway..

[daddyslackful]

@ubex I think you are right, but consider:



Schooling happens in school - learning happens the minute you arrive on this earth. Continuing to confuse the two concepts will do little to push education systems and institutions forward..

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child" George Santayana.

[daddyslackful]

@jackiegerstein Agreed. It's a case of buzzwords obscuring accurate communication and meaning at the moment. Once everyone stops being starstruck by digital tools, the sooner we can get on with using them effectively rather than talking in vague terms about their use in education..

[daddyslackful]

@ghostlady59 Who's "we" and are you talking about learning or schooling? These are very different things that occasionally overlap..

[daddyslackful]

@Divadj2009 Why? Are you a teenage female in your mid-30's at primary school?

[daddyslackful]

Human beings are natural learners. It is the 21st century. That makes everyone a 21st century learner..

at least this guy is pointing out the fact that it doesn't just happen in classrooms to the MTV audience (whatever that is)..

[trailertrashrnr]

you better start getting out and exercising more you look like your 65.

what good is knowledge if your dead?

[Divadj2009]

From NZ: Thanks for that information. I would like to have seen it from Teenage point of view and from a Primary age child point of view, even a female(30s-40s) point of view.

[MPTutor1]

good....