Switched On!

or only plugged in?

Which are you?

From this

To this..

...still in some schools today.

Vast majority

Smaller group

Telecom CEO

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Hole in the wall...Sugata Mitra

Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University , UK

• Computers in walls

• Slum areas

• Children teaching

children

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"Education-as-usual assumes that kids are empty vessels who need to be sat down in a room and filled with curricular content. Dr. Mitra's experiments prove that wrong."

Linux Journal

Digital Native?

And yet other digital natives...

Often having more than one!

How many teenagers do you know that need to

be constantly wired to their

cellphone?

So what does this mean in our classrooms?

“A growing number of business leaders, politicians, and educators are united around the idea that students need "21st century skills" to be successful today.”

•student centred topics•students teaching students•collaborative learning•Education for Enterprise (E4E) – meeting a need in the community.•the integration of subjects within the one unit of study.

…“The 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”….

Anne Shaw(2010)

•Communicator

•Encourager

•Flexible

•Modeler

Risk-taker

•Ring master/mistress

•Facilitator

•One who encourages their students to learn with technology not from technology.

Are you willing to become switched on?

So…

References: Books & ArticlesJonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R., & Crismond, D., (2008). What is meaningful learning? In Meaningful learning with technology (pp 1-12). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill-Prentice Hall.

Connecting the Sector ICT Strategic Framework for Education 2006–07 The Ministry of Education, on behalf of the education sector agencies and the National Library of New Zealand, November 2006

Rotherham, A. J. and Willingham, D. (2009). 21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead, Teaching for the 21st Century, 67(1) 16-21. Downloaded 4th April, 2011 from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/21st-Century-Skills@-The-Challenges-Ahead.aspx

Selwyn, N. (2009). The digital native – myth and reality. Aslib Proceedings, 61(4), 364. Doi:10.1108/00012530910973776

Shaw, A., What is 21st Century Education?. Downloaded 9th April, 2011 from http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm ★

Silva, E. (2008). Measuring skills for the 21st century. Washington, DC:Education Sector. Downloaded 14th April, 2011 from www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/MeasuringSkills.pdf

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. Downloaded 9 April, 2011 from http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

★ On obtaining permission to use this article I was also asked to advertise the fact that Anne Shaw is running a workshop in Melbourne(May), should anyone be interested.

Check it out at http://www.chaptersinternational.com/mailer/21st_Century_Classroom.html

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