ABC’s of the 21st Century Learning Environment
There’s a great article by Kimberely Ketterer in the Dec/Jan issue of Learning & Leading with Technology. As I read through the article, it was amazing to me how many of these topics I had talked with people about at either Discovery’s Leadership Symposium or Discovery’s National Institute. The 2010 national institute is almost certainly being planned at this very time. I would like to encourage all Arkansas STARs to register to attend what I consider to be one of the most cutting edge professional development opportunities.
According to Ketterer, the following can be found in a 21st century learning and teaching environemnt:
Access to all technological tools needed for learning
Beacons of global asynchronous conversations
Confident universal engaged learners
Dynamic online information made available anytime-anywhere
Engaged cohorts of learners immersed in simulations
Forecasted possibilities of collaborative solutions to real-world problems
Global awareness through real-time participation inmajor events
Harnessed creativity through multimedia for authentic learning
Innovations encouraged by out-of-the-box thinking
Jpegs that augment reports and storytelling
Knowledge transfer across curricular areas
Legal and ethical discussions fueled by overproliferation of opinion and fact
Morphed teaching strategies from passive delivery to multisensory presen
