21st+Century+Learning

media type="custom" key="12507574" Transcript: I have to say that I do agree with a lot of the Prensky Articles. I believe that todays generation and society is largely technology based. It seems to me that the ones running it are the Digital Immigrants that submerged themselves in technology making it easrier to assimilate. Teachers need to adjust. These students minds are conditioned and programmed to work a certain way, which includes stimulation from numerous avenues of technology. We are mere tools for our students to learn so we need to adapt and adapt well so that we can teach how they learn.

Thinkining into the future I imagine my students my first year to be familiar with technology but still have examples of old ways of learning because they are being raised and taught by Digital Immigrants. This allows them to see the best of both worlds. I do agree with technology but I feel some things, math for example need to be taught in its rarest form to be understood, intigrating only calculators and not teaching the work written out could be detrimental to the students fully understanding the basics. This is the major shift I see happening in my students in ten years. These students will be full digital natives being raised and taught by other digital natives. I see some core ares falling behind due to lack of basic training, although I could be wrong. I can only speak from experience and the type of learner I am, I like to see the raw form before I see the easier version incorporating technology. Then again if the easy way is all you know, maybe it will click for those students that way as my method clicked for me. Motivation for these students in ten years will most likely be ALL technilogically driven, so a full technilogically based education may not be a bad thing.One major thing that does worry me though is where do those low socio economic families fall? Will they be left behind? Yes, technology is fun, but it is also expensive. I am interested to see how the education system will keep the students current that cannot afford the most current gidgets and gadgets to learn.

The 21st Century skills look pretty evenly distrubuted. I see that shifting. I believe the technology area will dominate in the next ten years. I do not think its a bad thing I just know that there are a lot of areas that need to be covered andkinks that will need to be worked out so that every student has the same opportunity to learn and to succeed.