VirtualMV/Digital Learning Technologies/Overview

Welcome....
Before we consider the whole topic of Digital Learning Technologies it is useful to understand how we arrived at this point, what we mean by digital learning technologies and some of the challenges we will need to face.

So what do people think of teaching and learning and education? Here is a list of some inspirational quotes and educational quotes

21st Century Teaching & Learning
Some think of 21st Century learning as just technology, however it encompasses all facets of student learning. Technology is an enabler or tool that assists. The 21st Century learner is a 20th C learner with add-ons (upsized!)

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. See Global Flow of Tertiary-Level Students (2012)
 * 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


 * and to show some technology enhanced learning in CPIT
 * You (Tube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn9P_5P3iew

.. and from the past

 * Go to slideshare and look up presentations on John Dewey

Resources

 * The 21st Century Skills Teachers and Students need to Have (https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_QMWKR23OPGZE53NERIbTdvMWM)
 * Framework for 21st Century Learning. Retrieved May 2, 2013 from http://www.p21.org/overview
 * 2013: 14 Technology Concepts every teacher should know about