21st century pedagogy

what song is playing at the beginning??

Books, tables and calculators are all still very much part of a 21st Century learning but students are not expected to learn through drill and practice. We teach them to ask questions, to problem solve and collaborate. My students are learning about significant sites in Australia. They used Google Earth, they used a blog to connect globally with students in England and they were taught how to discern quality sources of information on the internet. This is 21st Century Learning.

When the kids don't know where Iraq, or Afghanistan or Australia when they lack is number sense because they never learned basic math tables and are calculator dependent, and when they no longer like to read books because they never developed reading fluency skills the critical thinking and 21st century paradigm is meaningless. Chinese students are learning all those skills and many more as are the wealthy kids in American prep schools - hello 21st Century

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Isn't it interesting that we seem to always resort to an either/or mentality. Part of teaching is being open to things that are new and inviting, things that motivate and engage, things that will help learners at all ability levels to be a part of the environment in which they find themselves at whatever capacity or to whatever degree it is possible for them to attain. The world is but a mouse click away. Shouldn't we help our children to discover it?

Professormom2; "help learners at all ability levels to be a part of the environment in which they find themselves at whatever capacity or to whatever degree it is possible for them to attain"

GEZZZZ, can you be anymore mushy and imprecise? "all levels", "whatever capacity/degree", "possible"?? You MUST be a prof of ED

The reason for either/or (in the REAL world) is the only resource that matters; TIME.

The limits on a Teacher to get learning done are so constrained that you must choose

No, we're not advocating burning books in favour of computers.  It's about striking the right balance. We cannot ignore the potential of Web 2.0 in creating powerful learning networks for exchanging ideas, knowledge. Abe Lincoln used the technology of his time: books and quills. I'm sure that wouldn't be the case if he were alive today.

so let me get this straight...we have to digitize education and put everything into a computer and the classroom has to be turned into an IMAX theater for these kids to learn? is that what were saying now? a long time ago a man named Abrham Lincoln read things called books by candlelight and he became one of our greatest presidents. so apparently teachers have given up on those crazy book things and just want to plug the brats into the matrix. honestly have you all given up?? very sad...

I do not think anyone is saying give up books. What people are in favor of is engaging today's learners. If we do not recognize that kids today are different than kids even 10 to 20 years ago, we are not educating ourselves with ways to make learning more meaningful. What is wrong with reading a book digitally? Students identify with it. Change is a part of history and today. Let's not be stuck in the past.

I totally agree with the ideas in this video. If an architect, doctor and teacher were teleported from the 1850s to the modern day, the teacher would be the only one still familiar with their own practice. It is time to reinvent the way teaching and learning happen. Social constructionism argues we are all potentially teachers and learners, In a truely collaborative environment - we can be both.