Monday, January 24, 2011
21st century learners
Thanks Scott for your thoughtful comments and links. I definitely feel there is a wide gap in out of school and in school literacies and students today are reading, writing and composing in new ways. This might be a great place to blend a focus for our partnership on creativity with critical thinking and new literacies. I look forward to sharing our ideas and have prepared a presentation that underscores the need for seriously considering this kind of professional development for students, teachers and teacher educators. We are all in this together!
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Thanks for all of the great food for thought on this. I just came from a conference on science education and one of the key note speakers talked about connections between neuroscience and education. She is part of the brain U program (http://brainu.org/brainu-about-project). She was asked to speak about this debate. Her response sounded much like what Scott was saying. For me, the importance of having technology as a PDS focal point is not so much about how quickly students/teachers can learn to use the technology but how effectively it can be used to support and enrich student learning. I do recognize that those two ideas are not mutually exclusive given the importance of training in the "effective" piece. However, my thought is that having a support network in technology could help move us beyond the how do I get this "function" to work to how do I design a lesson that utilizes this "function" to enhance and enrich learning. Particularly, can this "function" enrich things like inquiry learning and differentiated learning.
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