This
URL is important to me because today’s mobile technology enables children to
have nearly 24-hour media access, and many students are spending close to eight
hours per day using entertainment media, according to new research from the
Kaiser Family Foundation. Yet, when students enter the typical K-12 classroom,
they’re forced to “power down” in order to learn. But it doesn’t have to be
that way. And, in a growing number of schools that have embraced 21st-century
teaching and learning, it’s not.
Voice
amplification systems, digital projectors, document cameras, interactive
whiteboards, personal response systems, and other handheld devices; these are
among the many technologies that are quickly becoming essential tools for
helping 21st-century teachers engage their students’ interest and make learning
more interactive.
This
URL is important because it discuss Learning for the 21st Century, a report
from a new public-private coalition known as the Partnership for 21st Century
Skills (www.21stcenturyskills.org), articulates a vision of how schools can
best prepare students to succeed in the first decades of the 21st century.
This URL has a film
that looks specifically at the ways that the latest digital and mobile
technologies can potentially transform the ways that young people communicate,
collaborate, and learn. Each film looks specifically at the ways in which the
latest technologies including the mobile and digital technologies that are at
the heart of the Mobile Learning Institute program can potentially transform
young people's educational experience. Each leader begins from a personal frame
of reference, arguing for the urgency of releasing students from traditional
American models of schooling. Each also suggests that the key to transforming
contemporary education rests in giving kids the tools to produce, share, and
evaluate their own knowledge
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