Digital age learning involves skills like collaboration, problem-solving, and learning how to learn new information. Schools are challenged to shift from competitive to collaborative models and teach attributes over specific knowledge. The internet requires new literacies like finding, analyzing, and creating online information safely and ethically. Pedagogy must evolve from prescriptive to connective practices, utilizing social and virtual learning. Schools should become learning networks beyond institutional walls. Teachers must facilitate creative and digital learning experiences while engaging in professional growth themselves.

1. understanding 21st century learning
Leadership in Digital Age Education – CSE
Sylvia Guidara 27.04.2012

2. essential questions
• How would you define digital age learning?
• What are the implications for what and how we teach /
engage students?
• If students were asked to define essential literacies for a
digital age teacher, what would they include?

3. our values and norms in education are
being challenged by a shifting landscape
of media and communications

4. Australian Council of Deans – 2001!
๏ Skills of collaboration will supersede the competitive skills
of the old industrial economy.
๏ 21st century learners must be open to autonomous,
assisted and collaborative learning.
๏ Shape students with attributes rather than knowledge.
๏ Shape students who know how to learn what they don’t
know through problem solving.

5. the internet landscape | key concepts
media
social
mobile
real time
convergence

6. Buzzwords
Social Media
gather, communicate,
share, collaborate
Web 2.0
social media tools

7. what would education look like if it resembled
the culture?

8. the community is waking-up
web as participatory platform:
‘us-ness’ | community | connect | network | share

9. new media – new learning
New media forms have altered how youth socialise and learn.
Implications for schools and teaching:
digital virtual
pedagogy pedagogy
social learning

10. the internet landscape matters in education
what’s important: the properties and dynamics of the internet
landscape – not the tools – and how to evolve with them

12. 21st century ICT profiles for students and teachers
International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE]
Students
1. Creativity and Innovation
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Research and Information Fluency
4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
5. Digital Citizenship
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
Digital-Age Teachers
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
2. Design Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
4. Promote Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

13. Interacting effectively with online information:
Shifts in Learning find | sort | navigate | synthesise | critically analyse |
create | participate | interact safely & ethically

14. pedagogy | shifts in learning

15. 21st Century Education
Rethinking the who, what,
where & when of learning.
From prescriptive to
connective practices.
The delivery & distribution
of learning.
Who participates in
the learning process.
21st Century Education
Diverse learning spaces.

16. pedagogy | learning networks
Beyond the institutionalised logic of the school towards the
network logic of the learning community.
Learning institutions rethinking the possibilities around what
can be learnt, where learning can happen and who is
involved in the learning process.

17. Responding to opportunities & challenges
Trying to protect students and instructional time by banning
Web 2.0 or setting policies to keep it “safe.”
Preserving existing programmes and practices by using
technology in a way that ‘fits’ into what is already in place.
Taking a progressive approach by allowing technology to
transform the organisation rather than moving it faster and
further on its existing path.

18. How is your school preparing
students for the digital age?

19. Current technology demands a totally different
approach to instructional design and also teaching
methodology. It requires new skills from both teacher
and student.

20. Sylvia Guidara
www.digimuve.com
twitter.com/digimuve
sguidara@me.com