Workshop D: 21st Century Learning Redux- Technology "Apps" to Engage Your Students Overview

1. WORKSHOP D: 21ST CENTURY
LEARNING REDUX – TECHNOLOGY
‘APPS’ TO ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS

2. 20th-Century Classroom:
Presentations are typically
developed in advance outside of
class with educators as primary
developers
21st-Century Classroom
Presentations are developed both inside
and outside of class with students as co-
developers or as primary developers

3. 20th-Century Classroom
Educator is the presenter and
students are the audience
Emphasizes exposition: displaying
and explaining information
21st-Century Classroom
Activity- focuses on students as participants and
the educator as guide or mentor
Activity- discovery and application: finding,
assessing, synthesizing, information

4. 20th-Century Classroom:
Is the primary site of access to course content, and access is
“linear”-students cannot return to previous class
presentations
21st-Century Classroom
Access to course content is augmented by electronic
sources and media, access is recursive or on-demand
allowing students to return to content when and as
often as they’d like.

5. 20th-Century Classroom
Students and educators have access to one another
primarily in the classroom
21st-Century Classroom
Students and educators have access to one another
via virtual means, online discussions, email, chat,
social networking, etc.

6. 20th-Century Classroom
Discrete disciplinary silos are often established and preserved
21st-Century Classroom
Interdisciplinary connections are encouraged and
disciplinary silos are seen as porous or even
arbitrary [1]

7. Content v/s Concept
http://visionandchange.org/finalreport
Reference
Rankin, W. Abilene Christian University
www.iThinkEd.com, 2007