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Students' exposure to technology varies quite a bit. Some students have cameras, computers, etc. and they use them at home for work and play. Other students have a computer that does not work and they music is played on CDs. Closing the digital gap is a challenge.
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The fact that they know soooo much more than I do. I refer to myself as The Caveman whenever we go to the computer lab/media center. They understand that to get answers on how to mail documents to their home, they're gonna need to have their friends help them because I am not going to have the answer. Truthfully, I'm kinda afraid of screwing crap up. I also know that I don't understand the tech language, it's like learning a new one. Maybe that is why I hate trying to figure out what to do on computers, I don't understand what people are talking about. Those kids coming to me know way more than I do, I know it, unless they don't have access to a computer at home. Other than that, I've got a lot to learn and no one there to hold my hand and teach me day in and day out to make me feel comfortable.
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3/19/2009 4:34 PM
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Today’s learners bring with them several challenges teachers must realize and address in order to teach effectively. Television, the Web, ipods, email, IM’s, texting, and games dominate the lives of many of our kids. There are kids who spend more time engaged in digital distraction than personal interaction. It’s no wonder some kids have a hard time connecting with their teachers or peers. Many current students expect learning to be fun, technology based, immediate, and effortless, and they are let down by work that does not meet their expectations.
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3/19/2009 4:37 PM
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These little learners will challenge me to accept that pen-to-paper writing needs to morph into a more interactive workshop classroom where modeling is constant and contributing is required but fun. I have much to learn, which I have been avoiding for many years. Therein lie the opportunities! I also have the opportunity to shift away from the "only teacher" role. At times they will be the teachers and I the student. Literacy -- both read and written -- will bring an even more dynamic atmosphere to our time together. Somehow I need to work the multiple intelligences into technology.
By Sally on
3/19/2009 4:37 PM
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My experience with 21st Century learners is that they are pretty excited that their teacher is finally catching up to them. I realized this last year when I was teaching a book, A Whole New Mind, to my freshmen. I was over-the-top excited about the ideas that the author introduced and I couldn’t wait for my students to be enlightened as well. Sadly, when some of my students started reading the book, they couldn’t understand my excitement.
I had a conference with one of my students and she basically said “This is nothing new to me, I am not learning anything.” I then had an epiphany that they are growing up in a world that is so technologically different from what I had experienced as a kid. Now, I need to catch up.
By Maura Moritz on
3/19/2009 4:37 PM
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The 21st century learner brings an unbelievable ability to learn to my classroom. They currently have more tools than students have ever had before. It is my job to allow them access to those tools in the classroom. It is difficult to keep their attention therefore, I must challenge them constantly. I believe that it is my responsibility to put them in situations where they must constantly think and problem solve. It is very difficult to motivate them with all of the external things that they can be involved in. I am constantly trying to find ways to integrate technology into my classroom. This technology will hopefully capture their attention and put them in learning environments that maybe they don’t know they are learning in.
By J. Craig on
3/19/2009 4:37 PM
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This awesome opportunity has definitely created some interesting challenges. I knew that there would be people with a “less than ecstatic” view of what we are doing, but I have definitely been surprised by the amount of people with a decidedly negative outlook about this incredible infusion of technology.
In less than a year, we have seen tremendous growth from our students. It has been amazing to see how easily the students adjust to the technology. It seems as if there is almost no learning curve whatsoever. We learn right along with the kids. Our role has changed completely. This presents an interesting challenge for us as teachers. It is also a mind boggling experience for the people who come in to observe what is happening in our classrooms. In many cases folks are impressed by what is happening in the rooms. At the same time, I notice that people are impressed by the things that they DON’T see in our classrooms.
More than anything else, I am excited to see what happens in the coming years. I could not have predicted the results to this point, so next year will surely be astounding.
By Chris Moore on
3/19/2009 4:38 PM
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Today’s learners bring with them several challenges teachers must realize and address in order to teach effectively. Television, the Web, ipods, email, IM’s, texting, and games dominate the lives of many of our kids. There are kids who spend more time engaged in digital distraction than personal interaction. It’s no wonder some kids have a hard time connecting with their teachers or peers. Many current students expect learning to be fun, technology based, immediate, and effortless, and they are let down by work that does not meet their expectations.
By Ben Lacey on
3/19/2009 4:38 PM
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I think that the 1 main challenge brought to my classroom by these 21st learners is that I myself am not one. (Though maybe I'm becoming one?) So much of what I initially brought into my classroom as a teacher 9 years ago was based on my own experiences as a student, where I found enjoyment and success in an "old-school" classroom. (What do you call it? 20th century classroom? Industrial age classroom?) So my natural tendency is to teach things in a way that would have done a good job teaching students like myself. But are these students like me anymore, at all, in any way? The boys still like action movies and are girl-crazy, but it does seem like there are some pretty fundamental differences between them and me when it comes to learning style. They don't want to be talked at, they want to explore independently. They have a short attention span if they're not 'involved' in the learning, and they want the freedom to access all of their different learning/social resources during 'lesson time'. The differences between them and me are really too varied to discuss at length here. But the biggest challenge they bring me is that I have to learn how to be a new type of learner, so that I can better teach this new type of learner.
By Jeff Smith on
3/19/2009 4:38 PM
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These little learners will challenge me to accept that pen-to-paper writing needs to morph into a more interactive workshop classroom where modeling is constant and contributing is required but fun. I have much to learn, which I have been avoiding for many years. Therein lie the opportunities! I also have the opportunity to shift away from the "only teacher" role. At times they will be the teachers and I the student. Literacy -- both read and written -- will bring an even more dynamic atmosphere to our time together. Somehow I need to work the multiple intelligences into technology.
By Sally on
3/19/2009 4:38 PM
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One of the biggest positive aspects of having 21st century learners in the classroom is the fact that the "workload" can be shared. The ability to have the students do a lot of the creation of material for teaching/learning and then share this content with others (inside and outside of the classroom) is something that can be easily done. The fact that the students all have a different level of understanding of technology and its uses is one of the biggest roadblocks to teaching in a 21st century classroom. The students all could be at a different points in the learning cycle. This indicates that learning can be messy (Thanks Karl.) However, this also makes it so the learner's time is best used when they are in the classroom. No longer, in a classroom, would there be time where the students are asked to complete tasks that are designed only by the teacher but in a 21st century classroom, the students would have the ability to become active in the design of classroom activities.
By Brian Hatak on
3/19/2009 4:39 PM
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The fact that they know soooo much more than I do. I refer to myself as The Caveman whenever we go to the computer lab/media center. They understand that to get answers on how to mail documents to their home, they're gonna need to have their friends help them because I am not going to have the answer. Truthfully, I'm kinda afraid of screwing crap up. I also know that I don't understand the tech language, it's like learning a new one. Maybe that is why I hate trying to figure out what to do on computers, I don't understand what people are talking about. Those kids coming to me know way more than I do, I know it, unless they don't have access to a computer at home. Other than that, I've got a lot to learn and no one there to hold my hand and teach me day in and day out to make me feel comfortable.
By Jay Mair on
3/19/2009 4:40 PM
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One challenge is: How can schools remain relevant to students? In a world where almost all factual information is literally a click away (or voice command into the Google App for iPhone), what should the role of schools be? When no person on earth is more than 0.6 seconds away from any other person (connectivity at the speed of light), what does that mean for learning? For collaboration? For schools? How do we help our students develop their own Personal Learning Networks?
The opportunity is: We can do anything. Our students can do anything. We’ve never had the access to knowledge, to ideas, to each other that we do today – we just have to take advantage of it. We must take advantage of it – that’s what we owe our students. That’s the commitment we make when they start Kindergarten with us, to prepare them to be effective learners, workers, citizens, and human beings in the 21st century. Let’s get started.
By Karl Fisch on
3/19/2009 4:40 PM
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One of the biggest positive aspects of having 21st century learners in the classroom is the fact that the "workload" can be shared. The ability to have the students do a lot of the creation of material for teaching/learning and then share this content with others (inside and outside of the classroom) is something that can be easily done. The fact that the students all have a different level of understanding of technology and its uses is one of the biggest roadblocks to teaching in a 21st century classroom. The students all could be at a different points in the learning cycle. This indicates that learning can be messy (Thanks Karl.) However, this also makes it so the learner's time is best used when they are in the classroom. No longer, in a classroom, would there be time where the students are asked to complete tasks that are designed only by the teacher but in a 21st century classroom, the students would have the ability to become active in the design of classroom activities.
By Brian Hatak on
3/19/2009 4:40 PM
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As we have begun to infuse this new technology into our classroom it has been a pleasure watching the students actively engage with the new tools. We were fortunate to have been part of a previous grant where each fifth grade student at East Elementary has access to a eeePC each day. So adding to our 21st Century classroom has been just amazing. When I first learned about all of the technology that we would be implementing I was a bit on edge; I thought, “How am I going to teach with all of this and am I capable of doing a good job for our students.” After having the time and ability to work with the new software I am so excited to teach my students how to be more efficient 21st Century learners, how to work at their own pace and how to create for themselves. Each day presents new challenges - luckily they are ones that are vastly different then they were even two years ago. I believe that children have the ability to actively engage using technology while still following the curriculum, and that it is the teacher’s responsibility to present it that way.
By Nicolette Vander Velde on
3/19/2009 4:41 PM
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Students today are very different from when I was in school. Being technology “natives” is a bit intimidating. They know a lot more about the technology/software than I do so that is a challenge to me. This brings opportunities as well because when I do try to integrate technology into my lessons they pick it up very quickly and are able to help if there are technical issues. They are very computer literate.
By Kori Kruck on
3/19/2009 4:41 PM
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21st century learners bring a variety of challenges and opportunities to the classroom. Some of the challenges entail technological accessibility learners and teachers have encountered prior to entering the classroom as everyone has different experiences. In addition, one of the opportunities I believe 21st century learners bring to the classroom is their knowledge and willingness to share their background experiences with others. Although, I believe many challenges and opportunities are unpredictable due to these very components.
By MT on
3/19/2009 4:42 PM
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One of our biggest challenges is to keep kids actively and physically involved in the content we are teaching them. Students are focused on learning when they see the relationship of the content to their world, their lives, and their interests. The 21st century learner can sometimes be too focused on immediate gratification as well as what does this have to do with them? To try and teach about the world through their eyes does not always take into account all the possibilities out there. The opportunities available with technology today however allows teachers to make the education become visual and therefore more stimulating. The opportunities for students to interact with content is what is allowing students to learn more through interest instead of requirements.
By krista bretz on
3/19/2009 4:43 PM
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These little learners will challenge me to accept that pen-to-paper writing needs to morph into a more interactive workshop classroom where modeling is constant and contributing is required but fun. I have much to learn, which I have been avoiding for many years. Therein lie the opportunities! I also have the opportunity to shift away from the "only teacher" role. At times they will be the teachers and I the student. Literacy -- both read and written -- will bring an even more dynamic atmosphere to our time together. Somehow I need to work the multiple intelligences into technology.
By Sally on
3/19/2009 4:44 PM
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I see many challenges and opportunities that 21st century learners bring to my classroom. The biggest challenge I face is my own lack of technology know-how. I know that technology offers an exciting way to engage students in learning, but I don’t yet have a strong enough command of the tech skills and the expertise to use technology in the best and most productive way with my students. On the positive side, the opportunities technology brings to the class far outweigh the challenges. My students are quick learners, and I am taking advantage of opportunities to improve my skills. I consider my classroom to be a community of learners, a place where we can all learn from each other. We will learn and grow together. Students are excited to work to create new products, to explore new processes, and to learn about the world with the aid of technology. I want to be sure that I am on board, teaching my students critical skills to help them reach their full potential as learners in school and to carry those skills to the world beyond.
By SBA on
3/19/2009 4:46 PM
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In the 21st century, many challenges and opportunities exist when today’s student enters the classroom. The opportunity to connect with students in another dimension via emails, websites, wikis, and blogs opens up an instant information and communication between teachers and students. The opportunity for students to access immediate information beyond what one single teacher can offer, opens up the world to these learners. The ability to connect with my students in a new way is an opportunity and challenge I look forward to as well. I enjoy learning new technology and have students help me as I learn with them. The challenges facing these students, and most important in a teacher’s instruction, is preparing students to be analytical, evaluative, and discriminative thinkers as they encounter information.
By Lauri on
3/19/2009 4:48 PM
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There are many opportunities that arise as we teach the 21st century learners, the same old lesson and ideas from the past are not perceived as engaging. The tools need to be updated in the classroom to bring in the enthusiasm and efforts needed by all learners. They use the technology for their own entertainment; our goal is to show the learning power of technology. Additionally, the resources aren't always available to them at home, so we need to provide opportunities to use them at school. As we teach kids to use technology to further their learning we should also teach them how to problem solve and find alternate resources as needed. They need to learn how to use the tools available to them to the best of their abilities and also be able to transfer skills to new learning in the classroom and beyond. The skills they learn should teach them to also adapt to the new technology that evolves.
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