VirtualMV/Digital Learning Technologies/Overview/21st C Teaching
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Features of 21 Century Teaching
- Traditionally - text book based, slow, library based books
- New - Forums, wikipedia (includes authenticity issues)
- Problems with us - students can know - or quickly find out - more than we know - while we are teaching!
- Global (e.g. When asked a question some female Asian students will turn to their neighbour discuss the question, and may feed answer back.
- Need to be activity based and have lots of variety
- Need to give student skills to search and filter information
- Need to be interactive with students
Skills to be a 21st Century educator
- Blogging
- Social Media
- Interclassroom communication
- Cultural literacy
- Socratic seminar
- Community engagement
- Information literacy
- Networking
- Computers
Activities to engage learners
Corich (2008)[2] suggested the following activities can be considered to engage a variety of learning styles from the different generational groups
- Using visual metaphors
- Provide materials specific to each group
- Using language appropriate to each group
- Varying delivery methods
- Using graphics in support materials
- Provide items of intellectual interest for mature students
- Adding audio to online presentations
- Supply materials in different formats (paper, electronic, audio, visual)
- Provide formative assessment opportunities
- Allow students to work at their own pace
- Try to make materials interactive
- Provide opportunities for web based research
- Incorporate online learning activities
- Add extra materials such as online crosswords and quizzes
- Increase the use of group work
- Use Internet to create research activities based
References
- ↑ 9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator. (2011, Aug) Retrieved from http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2011/08/9-new-skills-you-need-to-be-a-21st-century-educator/
- ↑ Corich, S. (2008) Developing strategies to deal with the multiple generational groupings within the tertiary classroom. pp. 201-207. Retrieved from http://www.citrenz.ac.nz/conferences/2008/201.pdf
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