Elementary school students share their desire to use more technology for school as many of them already use blogs and podcasts for their own personal learning.
Video summarizes the Are They Really Ready to Work Report. Gives a simple, three-step plan for 21st century instruction: 1. Build a foundation by teaching skills together across curriculum, 2. Exploration into careers, and 3. Application of knowledge.
Note: the music is horrible (probably better to watch without music).
Video uses student perspectives to tell of their interest in gaming and how not enough teachers allow them to create with technology. They need to think, create, analyze and evaluate in order to be engaged.
A short and to the point video with upbeat music. Describes literacy as requiring fluency in decoding print & nonprint materials. This literacy is required to create and communicate ideas in new forums.
Makes the connection between the methods of instruction in the 19th and 20th centuries... desks in rows, students watching and listening to the teacher. Students today are technologically savvy, globally connected, and creative; therefore, our teaching needs to match that and engage them.
Kids are born consuming media but not necessarily creating it; 21st century learning is about becoming the creator or producer. These skills are not all about the workforce but also preparing students for what they need to participate in contemporary society. The role of teachers is to give students access to what they need and the opportunity to be reflective.
A survey of 200 college students and learning today. The students state that they are multi-taskers and need more electronic mediums to create and they no longer rely on textbooks.
Effective, but low on the list because it is focused on college students.
Informational video about what, how, and where 21st Century Learning will occur. This video is 9 minutes in length and quite dated.
This video ended up at the bottom of the list because it would not play.
