Why Learn With Technology?

1. Why Learn With Technology?

2. What kinds of skills do students need?

4. Lower income students use computers more often for repetitive practice, whereas higher-income students use computers more often for more sophisticated intellectually complex applications Henry Jay Becker “Who’s Wired and Who’s Not: Children’s Access to and Use of Computer Technology” Children and Computer Technology, Vol. 10, No. 2 Fall/Winter, 2000

8. Old and New Skills: • Communicating • Collaborating • Judging • Knowing

9. • Communicating Old 21st Century skill: Interpreting images and sounds in historical, scientific, aesthetic or imaginative contexts New 21st Century skill: Using images, sounds and animation effects as raw material for communication purposes

10. • Collaborating Old 21st Century skill: Taking responsibility for differentiated roles and tasks New 21st Century skill: Expanding the pool of collaborators to include people outside the classroom

11. • Judging Old 21st Century skill: Learning coherent standards to evaluate information New 21st Century skill: Applyingdifferent criteria to evaluate multiple sources of information produced for different purposes

12. • Knowing Old 21st Century skill: Learningto understanda predefined canon in various disciplines via textbooks New 21st Century skill: Learning how to construct knowledge from a fluid set of “building blocks” available online

13. Equity?