Reflections about 21st Century Learners

List five common themes, concepts, or ideas you observed when watching the videos.

• Today's learners are required to adapt to change. 
• Kids in school today are making pod casts and use blogs for communicating their ideas.
• Today students have embraced using text messaging, IM and blogs as a form of communication and are much more proficient at them than the adults in their lives.
• In order to engage students in school, current technologies should be welcomed in the class room.
• The old way of teaching is not the way to prepare 21st Century learners for their futures.

What is meant by 21st century skills?

• These are the skills that allow a student to create and problem solve. They could include engineering and design software on project. Using Blogs and pod cast for sharing information with other students and teachers.

Why are 21st century skills important for today's learners?

• Students today want to learn how to think and create. Teaching methods have to shift from stressing the absorption of volumes of factual data and measuring students by their ability to recall it, to one where teachers provide and encourage the use of new technologies as an aid for critical thinking.

What is the role of technology with regard to 21st century skills?

• Technology will enable web based, colabortive learning. Student could work on project and share information with other students all over the world.

Reflection: List three questions or ideas you have related to 21st century skills.

• What will it take for current teachers to learn and accept the needs of 21st Century learners?
• Will there be a need for a physical classroom in the future?
• Will educational technology evolve to the point that implants in our heads will replace the need for external devices? Should we go that far in our embracing technology?