21st Century Classroom
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21ST CENTURY CLASSROOMS
INTRODUCTION
The days of constructing four walls with a podium at the front and calling it a school house are over. Today’s students are highly connected and consume information when and where it’s needed. They learn from peers, an online community and experts who share their knowledge through traditional and online publishing resources. ‘21st Century Learning’ is a natural term to bring into any conversation about technology and media being used in current classrooms
21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM S
The 21st Century Classroom will be a place where students move up on Bloom’s taxonomy (the new version) beyond rote memorization skills to creation skills. These classrooms will be intellectually safe, comfortable places that encourage peer interaction and tactile connections with the material students are studying, because these experiences inspire creative solutions and communication skills. Successful classrooms will facilitate networking, small group collaboration, and interaction with the subject of study.
The new definitions for “School”, “Teacher” and “Learner” appropriate for the 21st century: * Schools will go from ‘buildings’ to 'nerve centers', with walls that are porous and transparent, connecting teachers, students and the community to the wealth of knowledge that exists in the world.” * Teacher - From primary role as a dispenser of information to orchestrator of learning and helping students turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. * The 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”. * Learner - In the past a learner was a young person who went to school, spent a specified amount of time in certain courses, received passing grades and graduated. Today we must see learners in a new context: * First – we
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21ST CENTURY CLASSROOMS
INTRODUCTION
The days of constructing four walls with a podium at the front and calling it a school house are over. Today’s students are highly connected and consume information when and where it’s needed. They learn from peers, an online community and experts who share their knowledge through traditional and online publishing resources. ‘21st Century Learning’ is a natural term to bring into any conversation about technology and media being used in current classrooms
21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM S
The 21st Century Classroom will be a place where students move up on Bloom’s taxonomy (the new version) beyond rote memorization skills to creation skills. These classrooms will be intellectually safe, comfortable places that encourage peer interaction and tactile connections with the material students are studying, because these experiences inspire creative solutions and communication skills. Successful classrooms will facilitate networking, small group collaboration, and interaction with the subject of study.
The new definitions for “School”, “Teacher” and “Learner” appropriate for the 21st century: * Schools will go from ‘buildings’ to 'nerve centers', with walls that are porous and transparent, connecting teachers, students and the community to the wealth of knowledge that exists in the world.” * Teacher - From primary role as a dispenser of information to orchestrator of learning and helping students turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. * The 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information delivery, and schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”. * Learner - In the past a learner was a young person who went to school, spent a specified amount of time in certain courses, received passing grades and graduated. Today we must see learners in a new context: * First – we