What Will Teaching in the 21st Century be Like?
Mr. Dancealot proved that standing in front of a classroom and only lecturing does not work. In this video, the students were taking a dance class. The professor never showed them how to dance, he only talked about it. At the end of the video, the students are given a test where they are supposed to actually dance. The students try looking at their notes, but they don't know what to do. This video proves that you need to actually do what you are taught. I agree with this because as the video proves you can tell someone how to do something, but they won't really understand unless they do it.
Roberts
Teaching in the 21st Century was created to inform teachers that they need to do something different in the classrooms of the 21
st century. Roberts feels that with today’s technology students can learn and get information from anywhere. Roberts thinks that teachers need to be the filter for that information. Here are some examples of Roberts’s ideas:
· Students can find information on their own
o Blogs
o Facebook
o Google
· Teachers need to show students how to use that information
o Validate
o Problem Solve
o Communicate
· Teachers need to show students how to create
o Blogs
o Pod Casts
o Animate
· Teachers need to show students tech skills
o Paraphrasing
o Editing
o Tagging
· Students need to know about
o Plagiarism
o Pirating
o Professionalism
· Students should learn to create with different programs and be challenged with online homework
o Skype
o Google Docs
o Flipped Lessons
· Entertainment vs. Engagement
o Engagement is active
o Engagement is learning
o Engagement is meaningful
o Engagement is applicable
o Engagement is solving problems
o Engagement is creativity
I feel that Roberts is correct about teaching in the 21st century. If a person wants to know something all they have to do is look it up on their cell phone. They can ask Siri and she will answer them. Students need to be engaged in learning. Students need to learn how to properly use technology of the 21st century and facilitate them in a classroom. These tools will be used in my future classroom as well.
The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler was a great video explaining why a networked student would need a teacher. The student in this video could do all kinds of things with 21
st century technology. He could use Google Scholar, make posts and comment. He had his own Blog. He used I tunes to watch other University Professors. He used a video conference, Skype and used an RSS reader. The teacher taught him how to use these tools properly. She gave him guidance and taught him how to communicate properly. The student’s teacher also gave him good information and showed him how to organize it. Her goal was that her student would know how to create and solve problems in his future. The video clearly showed how important the teacher was to the student’s success.
Vicki Davis is “turning her classroom upside down!” in the video
Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts. Vicki feels if your classroom is only using pen and paper there will be problems. Students need to be prepared to be digital citizens. Her classroom is empowering her students for success. They are learning to brainstorm and figure things out on their own and with their peers. They are connecting with other students from all over the world in what they call a “Flat Classroom”. I think Vicki Davis is right in teaching and making the children comfortable with the tools of the 21
st century. She is taking students from a rural area and connecting them to the world.
Dr. Stranges’s video,
Who’s Ahead in the Learning Race proved that elementary students at Gulf Shores Elementary are using technology of the 21
st century in their classrooms more than undergraduate and graduate students at USA. I think it is wonderful that these students are learning how to Blog, use QR’s, Google Docs use iMovie’s and more. I am happy to see that USA is also using a lot of these tools and feel that we, as education majors, need to know how to use the same tools that they are using in the classrooms.
Flipping the Classroom by Ms. Munafo is not a new concept for me. My 6th-grade
daughter has a “Flipped Classroom” at least once a week. I think flipping the classroom is a great idea. My daughter is always excited to do something different. She will receive a link in an email to me and then do her lesson at home. The next day she is prepared to discuss the lesson in class. I think if I work with older grades I would love to try flipping the classroom. It gives the students a fresh way to do homework and gives them a better understanding of the material before they enter the classroom.
After reading
Bringing the Locker Room into the Classroom by Craig N. Owens, I feel I can use the idea of students working together in my classroom. I think the children will benefit from problem-solving together and not always relying on the teacher for an answer. I like the idea of problem-based learning and feel the students will get more out of it by working as a team to solve a problem.
