By Heather Carver
21st Century Learning What will our Students Need? How Does that Look in the Classroom How can eLearning help? Where Do I Start? 3 Steps to 21st Century Learning e An ability to be: Autonomous learners Life long learners Literate and numerate Deeply proficient in areas of interest Collaborative learners Problem solvers Confident with high levels of self esteem Self aware Emotionally intelligent Socially adept Globally aware Creativity is the new commodity It makes some things we’ve always done much easier. It makes it easier to differentiate the learning. It makes it easier to track student learning. It provides audiences for our students to address. It provides thinking, planning and presenting tools that allow for greater creativity, collaboration and assessment opportunities. It brings the world into our classroom to learn from, share our understandings and to collaborate with. It lets our students work in the ways they’ve become used to outside of school. It allows for flexible anywhere anytime learning. Independent study Peer tutoring Team Collaborative work in small/ mid sized groups One on one learning with the teacher Lecture format with teacher at the centre stage Project based learning Technology based learning with mobile computers Distance education Research via internet with wireless networking Student presentation Performance based learning Seminar style instruction Hands on projects Naturalist learning Social/ emotional/spiritual learning Art based learning Story telling Team teaching Potential Resource – is differentiated Professional Learning for teachers. Access your survey results (view continuum) In each area of eLearning approx 3 suggestions are provided for you to explore. All the samples and tools you will need to implement in your classroom are right there. Use the Journal to keep track of the sites and pages you want to come back to and to note down the things you think you might like to have a go at. Fill in the goal setting sheet Record your decisions on the spreadsheet at Google docs.