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The 21 st Century Teacher Mardene R. Carr/Kadian Stewart

The 21 st Century Teacher Mardene R. Carr/Kadian Stewart. How to be collaborative, adaptive and tech-savvy communicators who can operate in the 21 st  century classroom . Profile of the 21 st Century Student. Baby Boomers TV generation Typewriters Memos. Gen X

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The 21 st Century Teacher Mardene R. Carr/Kadian Stewart

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  1. The 21st Century Teacher MardeneR. Carr/Kadian Stewart

  2. How to be collaborative, adaptive and tech-savvy communicators who can operate in the 21st century classroom.

  3. Profile of the 21st Century Student • Baby Boomers • TV generation • Typewriters • Memos • Gen X • Video games • Computers • E-mail • Net Gen • The Web • Mobile devices • Instant messenger • Online communities

  4. Profile Cont’d • Stats on Net Gen: • 100% use it to search for information on colleges, careers & jobs • 74% use instant messaging as a major communication vehicle • 54% of students (7-12 grade) know more IM screen names than home phone numbers • 81% e-mail friends & relatives • 70% instant message • 56% prefer the Internet over the telephone Howe & Strauss, 2003

  5. Profile Cont’d • Digital natives living in a digitally focused world: • Digitally literate • Mobile • Experiential • Comfortable using technology • Familiar with Collaborating • Self-Teaching

  6. Teachers’ Role and Responsibility • Provide a collaborative learning environment • Learning new skills • Learning new technology • Use technology effectively • Don’t overuse the technology

  7. 21stCentury classroom

  8. 21stCentury classroom • Desk top computers • Thin clients • Notebook Computers • Netbooks • Tablet PCs • E-Readers

  9. Collaborative Software Packages

  10. Collaborative Hardware Packages • Audio conferencing systems. • Video conferencing systems. • Web conferencing systems.

  11. Advantages of Collaboration

  12. Using technology in the classroom

  13. Audio Visual Solutions for the Classroom

  14. Projector

  15. Interactive White Boards

  16. Digital Cameras

  17. The 21st Century Teacher is “wired”

  18. Trends • Abundance of resources and relationships are easily accessible via the Internet. • Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models. • There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning.

  19. Trends • People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to. • The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and expectations of IT decentralized support. • The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving changes in the structure of student projects.

  20. Challenges • Economic pressures and new models of education competing with the traditional models of education. • Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance. • Institutional barriers present major challenges to moving forward with emerging technologies.

  21. Challenges • The prevailing methods of instruction impede the most effective application of technology • Don’t know how to make new technologies transform teaching • Instructional workload • Often too much emphasis on the technology itself and lack of support for teachers

  22. Challenges • Lack of clear direction, sustained commitment, and financial incentives needed • Merely providing tools is unlikely to provide a significant increase in effective use of technology in instruction

  23. 21ST Century Teacher Adaptive Collaborative Risk taker Tech-Savvy Understand where technology fits Know how to find useful (free) resources

  24. Resources • . • http://moodleshare.org/ • http://help.edmodo.com/edmodo-in-action/ • http://www.learnnowbc.ca/educators/MoodleMeets/ • http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/onecomputer.html • http://www.teach-nology.com/ • http://www.21stcenturyschoolteacher.com/ • http://www.21things4teachers.net/ • http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/

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