Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century
Posted 26 Feb 2016 11:02am
By Leigh Hynes -Hynessight Blog
I came across this video recently and thought it was one of the better ones I had seen because it could be a really useful video to show parents and whanau of our learners, who often yearn for an education similar to the one they received. It really tells the tale of how different education needs to be in the 21st century.
It starts by questioning if the role of the teacher is obsolete. Students can obtain facts, dates, content and formula on anything, anytime, anywhere so where does that leave the role of the teacher?
There are a whole lot of other ICT skills as well.
- Bookmarking - so to find resources again easily
- Paraphrasing - rewording to show understanding
- Mashing - using a number of apps together
- Experimenting - taking risks
- Attributing - not stealing others work
- Subscribing - allowing easy access to useful resources
- Posting - exposing opinions and creativity in a safe context
- Uploading - sharing work to the world
- Editing - adjusting, trimming, adding value
- Reflecting - a metacognitive activity to really show deep understanding
- Locating - sorting through millions of resources to find the right one
- Tagging - adding a label to enable easy searching later
- Twittering - using the power of 140 words and mixed media wisely
- Commenting - being positive and aiding understanding
- Searching - finding exactly what you want online
- Integrating - mixing one medium with another
- Networking - finding and knowing the right people at the right time
- Linking - making connections
Do our learners know how to do these? And can they do them reliably, responsibly and with integrity? Do they know how to be professional - to avoid plagiarism, pirating, and slander? Do they honour copyright, crowdsourcing and confidentiality?
The video gives some examples of kinds of problems that could be put to students to answer in many different ways.
- How many grains of sand on the average beach?
- What is the current relationship between India and Pakistan?
- Which organisation would you give money to for hunger relief?
- Where would the best place in the earth be to live according to data?
- What are the top rated jobs in your country and what are the common skills for those jobs?
- Which is the best presentation programme?
- What are the key ideas in Youtube's terms and conditions?
The video also addresses the idea of behaviour management when using devices. This is a favourite topic of mine as I often see teachers trying to manage behaviour through removal of "privileges" of using devices.
This post was taken from the blog Hynessight by Leigh Hynes. You can see the original post here.