"The 21st Century Learner"
Has the time finally arrived when the academia leaders realize the importance of integrating digital technology into the classroom and move the students of today beyond the boundaries currently holding them back? The focus of the school boards, administration, and standardized curriculum need to address the lesson-plans and chalkboard teaching styles of today into a new direction for today's students to advance their knowledge skills and language by using what is known as WEB 2.0 Tools.
The "21st Century Learner" is asking for a change in how they are taught to a new concept that has always been a skill in-grained in all of us and that new concept is to "challenge me on how to think". However, the challenge goes further in their request and almost to the point of demanding: "let me use use the digital technology available to me to create and share knowledge". These students realize their potential and welcome the teacher to capture their interests and attention by engagement. Engagement in the form that allows them to experience new learning skills beyond the stagnating, traditional curriculum that holds back their creativity and growth.
What is becoming an epidemic without realizing the potential that lies ahead for the future CEOs, athletes, small business owners, and yes, even teachers that sit in the classroom today is that digital technology provides a vision to thinking "outside-the-box" and challenge oneself. These leaders that will move us through the "21st Century" and beyond need to be engaged in the classroom by transforming how they are taught to how they can think.
"However, the challenge goes further in their request and almost to the point of demanding: "let me use use the digital technology available to me to create and share knowledge ". " Important concept here is to create and share the knowledge. It is so important to share with others for genuine real life authentic feedback.
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