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September 27, 2007 12:02 PM
21st century skills
*Students need to internalize the SHIFT.
*Kids are creating to demonstrate the SHIFT.
*Students are starving for technology integration, opportunities are not as rich and they are doing it on their own.
*Teachers have to change the way that we're teaching to try to stay abreast with students.
*Students and teachers need to internalize the message.
*SHIFT happens, but struggle happens too. Students still need to learn how to think and problem solve, even though things comes so easily.
*Less interested in teaching them discrete skills and more interested in teaching them essential skills.
*Teaching technology skills is not important as teaching kids connections between themselves and their community and world.
*In an age where people are so connected, there is an increase in isolation. Not communicatively, but emotionally.
*We need to teach them how to communicate on an emotional level.
*Somehow we need to address the issue of lack of emotional connection, through collaboration using technology.
*Service learning has a lot of value that involves them in the community, where the focus is not on the technology.
*Students are not isolated, technology has opened up a different type of connection; A different avenue for communicating that removes social pressures and status issues.
Posted by teresamyers on September 27, 2007 at 12:02 PM in General | Comments (0)
