Re: A View of 21st Century Learners

Thanks for the great paradigm jarring video! I am considered a digital immigrant - fit your "demographics" BUT know more about technology than my gifted elementary students.  The digital native versus the digital immigrant argument is getting old!

thanks for this.
for the first time in my 10 year technology staff development career- i considered age might have something to do with digital resistance. i actually said it out loud today.
THANKS for jerking me back into reality. i just was *eliminated* from my district- coordinator of technology & staff development- you remind me that there is a place for my passions, among all life long learners of any age.

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.

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.

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

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.

I love the stat about reading 1000 blog posts. Studies are always saying that people don't read anymore, but they only count fiction. I think many of us have transferred from reading novels to reading non-fiction and blogs. Any reading is better than no reading, right?

Man! I can't believe you read 80 novels and wrote 4!

I think you make an excellent point about how the internet is used by not only the young - in fact statistics here in the UK suggest your age group is one of the heaviest users!

And why not? You're probably less preoccupied with Porn and Britney Spears' new video (same thing?), so the content you contribute and consume are most likely more edifying - which only adds to the richness of web.

80 books though? wow...

Good points that you make on the video. 21st century learning is about the skills and ways of living today rather than your age.