The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.
Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and do basic math. However, the concept of literacy in the 21st century will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school house, a legacy that still strongly influences today's education environment. A literacy model that extends out of reading, writing, and basic math will have to answer questions like:
What do you need to know, when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse-click away?
How do you distinguish between good knowledge and bad knowledge?
What does it do to the value of information, when everyone is a producer?
How do we address ethics, when we are empowering our students with such prevailing skills?
We have witnessed astounding advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), but the impact has come from how these technologies have changed the very nature of information. It has changed in
What it looks like,
What we look at to view it,
Where we find it,
How we find it,
What we can do with it, and
How we communicate it.
The true effect on instruction today is not in the tools we use, but in our definition of literacy, what the 3Rs evolve into when information is increasingly networked, digital, and abundant. The information and communication technologies that we are using are critical, but only in so much as how useless my schooling would have been without pencil and paper.
We will also take the conversation to the teacher — what does practicing contemporary literacy look like as a professional practice. Teachers should be and should be seen as being master learners — and being a master learner today means being a master of today’s networked, digital, and abundant information landscape, a network learner.
Watch the video below called "Reaching Digital Natives"
The first generation of “Digital Natives” – children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed.
Are you a digital native?
What do you think a digital native is?
Write your thoughts below.
I loved the video.-beza 09langdon
Watch the video below called 'Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media ?'
1. What do you think the video is about?
2. Do you think kids are different today than in the past because of digital media?
3. Do you think kids are better, or worse, or maybe the same?
4. Ask your mom or dad what they think?
5. Ask a person who grew up without computers, or cell phones, or iPods and see what they think.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
As little as we know about the future for which we are preparing our students, it is clear that it will be a place that is governed by information. Accessing, processing, building with, and communicating that information is how we will all make our livings.
Being literate in this future will certainly involve the ability to read, write, and do basic math. However, the concept of literacy in the 21st century will be far richer and more comprehensive than the 3 Rs of the one room school house, a legacy that still strongly influences today's education environment. A literacy model that extends out of reading, writing, and basic math will have to answer questions like:
- What do you need to know, when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse-click away?
- How do you distinguish between good knowledge and bad knowledge?
- What does it do to the value of information, when everyone is a producer?
- How do we address ethics, when we are empowering our students with such prevailing skills?
We have witnessed astounding advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), but the impact has come from how these technologies have changed the very nature of information. It has changed in- What it looks like,
- What we look at to view it,
- Where we find it,
- How we find it,
- What we can do with it, and
- How we communicate it.
The true effect on instruction today is not in the tools we use, but in our definition of literacy, what the 3Rs evolve into when information is increasingly networked, digital, and abundant. The information and communication technologies that we are using are critical, but only in so much as how useless my schooling would have been without pencil and paper.We will also take the conversation to the teacher — what does practicing contemporary literacy look like as a professional practice. Teachers should be and should be seen as being master learners — and being a master learner today means being a master of today’s networked, digital, and abundant information landscape, a network learner.
Watch the video below called "Reaching Digital Natives"
The first generation of “Digital Natives” – children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed.
Write your thoughts below.
I loved the video.-beza 09langdon
Watch the video below called 'Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media ?'
1. What do you think the video is about?
2. Do you think kids are different today than in the past because of digital media?
3. Do you think kids are better, or worse, or maybe the same?
4. Ask your mom or dad what they think?
5. Ask a person who grew up without computers, or cell phones, or iPods and see what they think.
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