As I viewed Wesch video I thought about how much education has changed in the last 20 years. And how much technology has become a crucial part of everyday lives. Something that stuck out in my mind is the jobs of the future has not been created yet; So how do you prepare students for the future especially since a majority of educators do not have the 21st century skills of today. A website for 21st Century Learning.
The way students learn and interact with others has also changed in 20 years. We use to sit quietly and listen to the teacher and not really expected to challenge what we were learning or talk about it with other students. With students of today, social interaction and communication is a vital part of their life. Texting, twitting, facebook, my space and youtube are all outlets for the kids of today to express their thoughts and feelings. I think as educators we need to take advantage of this social media. Make these tools a new learning environment and go beyond the traditional teaching methods.
I came across this website and was really impressed with what it said about the future of learning.....I wanted to share what it said the keys to the future of education
1. It’s PERSONAL: where information and learning programs can be personalized and tailored to your own passions, talents, interests and needs. And where you
can share your own talents and skills with millions—for both fun and income.
2. It’s INTERACTIVE: with new digital platforms and templates to make it easy,
simple and fun to learn by doing, playing, creating, producing and interacting—a new
world of creative experiences.
3. It’s GLOBAL: the ever-expanding world-wide Internet owned by no one, used
by everyone; where the combined knowledge of humankind is now available to virtually
all at the tap of a digital keyboard or a touch screen.
4. It’s INSTANT: for the fi rst time in history, the ability to learn anything “just in
time”, when you need it, as you need it, at your request, and in your own way.
5. It’s MAINLY FREE: or nearly so—one low-cost click-at-a-time. The World
Wide Web, browsers, search engines and digital platforms make it easy to access
much information free, and to download other information for a few cents. Even free
international phonecalls.
6. It’s EASILY SHARED: the new world of collaborative networks to share your
abilities with anyone, anywhere. To store—free online and on community websites—
your family photographs, videos, music and even your digital multimedia portfolios
to demonstrate what you know and what you can do.
7. It’s CO-CREATIVE: if we can dream it, we can now do it—together with millions
around the world. Now we can merge our own talents into multi-talented global
teams, to produce new innovative answers to major global problems.
These seven keys have already unlocked new doors to transform industries, countries,
communities, commerce, communications and companies. They have the power
to reinvent every aspect of lifelong learning, teaching and schooling. But when these
“tipping points” link with other sweeping changes, the impact will be even greater:
It is interesting how technological advancements have telescoped in time, yet our schooling styles and classrooms have barely changed at all for the last 100+ years. And the monetary statistic that the 2nd article you posted points about about how it'd take 29 billion to put a computer in every classroom around the world and we spent 87 billion in Iraq in one week... it's sickening. But I'm a pacifist, so anything having to do with how much money we spend in war will always piss me off :) Thanks for finding and sharing such enlightening websites Darlene!
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