WORKSHOP D: 21ST CENTURY LEARNING REDUX – TECHNOLOGY

‘APPS’ TO ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS

20th-Century Classroom: Presentations are typically developed in advance outside of class with educators as primary developers

21st-Century Classroom Presentations are developed both inside

and outside of class with students as co-

developers or as primary developers

20th-Century Classroom Educator is the presenter and students are the audience Emphasizes exposition: displaying and explaining information

21st-Century Classroom Activity- focuses on students as participants and

the educator as guide or mentor

Activity- discovery and application: finding,

assessing, synthesizing, information

20th-Century Classroom: Is the primary site of access to course content, and access is “linear”-students cannot return to previous class presentations 21st-Century Classroom

Access to course content is augmented by electronic

sources and media, access is recursive or on-demand

allowing students to return to content when and as

often as they’d like.

20th-Century Classroom Students and educators have access to one another primarily in the classroom

21st-Century Classroom

Students and educators have access to one another

via virtual means, online discussions, email, chat,

social networking, etc.

20th-Century Classroom Discrete disciplinary silos are often established and preserved

21st-Century Classroom

Interdisciplinary connections are encouraged and

disciplinary silos are seen as porous or even

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Content v/s Concept

http://visionandchange.org/finalreport

Reference

Rankin, W. Abilene Christian University

www.iThinkEd.com, 2007