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How does/will 21st Century Learning look different from learning in 1990?

Bucks IU's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Regardless of what tools are available
• How we assess our students needs to reflect the learning styles, habits, and needs for 21st Century skills.
• Kids come with expectations—come from homes where the tools exist
• technology within schools will change the face of education

Category: directly related to how assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching can occur, and impacts on the ways it can occur

• losing creativity??????
• kids see schools as disconnected from technology so they disconnect themselves from the environment- we are not connecting with them in a “relevant” way
• Critical Thinking becomes paramount – Students need to be able to analyze all of the readily available information that they find…
• And subsequently more relevant
• How do educators and students learn to use the tools - Practical applications integrated with curriculum and classroom instruction
• Happens EVERYWHERE—needs to be home, school, etc…

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• Immersion—lab model vs laptops—
• charter schools are moving ahead of the game
• learning styles- some people need the interactivity (multi-sensory learning)
• Be able to discern what are the best tools to use for any given task…
• Less affected by “place” – less formal…
• The ability to make learning mobile will provide for more significant concrete experiences
• Learning can become more personal – interest based while adhering to expected standards…
• Differentiate based on interest, not ability –
• Who is involved - Kids are sponges
• Where does it happen - Student centered
• How do they know what students are doing with the tools outside of the classroom - Results of practical assignments illustrating mastery and higher order thinking skills
• How do they know what students are doing with the tools outside of the classroom - Learning is evolving to take advantage of new tools as developed
• Heterogeneous groups, multi-tasking activities

Category: directly related to the responsibilities of higher education to support needs in education

• Ubiquitous computing

Category: Change in methodology

• Students are often the authors of their learning
• Technology integration will not be an “issue” because it is a regular part of their daily practice.
• Tools like CPS devices are good, but have appropriate uses and tasks
• In the 21st century, more kids are teaching teachers in certain areas, and this is ok. The model of the “sage on the stage” is taking a back seat to “guide on the side.” Teachers are going to have to be ok with messing up or not knowing as much as the students.
• We want students to take risks. Teachers are going to need to do the same.
• Digital natives will become the immigrants
• Teachers not prepared to deliver –

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Gap between teachers and student
• IT and curriculum need to come together
• How do educators and student learn to use the tools?
• 21st Century Learning will not become a true reality until the NATIVES become the seasoned teachers… - The student-teacher model slows the process.

Category: directly related to the impact of interaction between students and the people with whom they interact as students and members of the community, including parents

• multi-tasking with electronic devices- no attention span
• How do educators know what tools are available - Until decision-makers are tool users, the front-line “visionaries” have to keep fighting for funding and implementation. Once the decision-makers “get it”, updating and expanding technology makes as much sense as updating textbooks and curriculum tools.

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Learning environment is more open, the teacher is a facilitator,
• In twenty years, teachers will be using technology as a part of their regular teaching practice
• Parents—parent involvement
• Community will continue to play an even greater role…

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Socio-economic gaps
• - author’s note – NCLB and high stakes testing and subsequent test prep is driving the Ed. Tech developers to focus on testing applications as opposed to true learning applications of technology…
• Who is involved - Global community
• Classrooms are going wireless, but not necessarily a laptop, but a PDA. Each classroom will be equipped with some sort of LCD screen, etc.
• FACILITIES - what facilities are available - Lab vs integrated networked classroom
• TOOLS: how do you know what is available
• see k-12 kids with ubiquitous technology- laptops at every desk, ipods, handsfree devices
• develop technology that will do everything- there will not even be a question of having a computer for every person
• students come with their own equipment
• Where does it happen - Everywhere- lab, classroom, home, on the road,
• What facilities are available - Individual learning/communication tools- handhelds, communication tools, everything is networked and wireless
• How do educators and students learn to use the tools - All students have tools/access
• How do they make sure the tools keep working - Tools adapt to situations
• Smartboards replacing chalkboards
• Assumptions are made that technology is available
• Technical considerations to how the infrastructure supports increased technology.

Category: Training needed

• What facilities are available - Communication and sharing/collaboration tools are available in libraries, malls, etc.
• Workshops are offered for teachers, but often, year after year, it is a constant recycling of the same teachers.
• RECOMMENDATION: train the LEADERSHIP
• 21st Century Learning will not become a true reality until the NATIVES become the seasoned teachers… - Many tech-savvy teachers are “learning to teach” by implementing age-old strategies…
• How do educators know what tools are available - Need to move away from “tech visionaries” to a point where everyone learns to use them and directs students to use them effectively

Capital IU's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Web pages
• Teachers/districts posting web pages
• E-mail
• Overload of Technology/Initiatives

Category: directly related to how assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching can occur, and impacts on the ways it can occur

• Real time information for stakeholders – parents, students, etc
• Real time assessments that parents, administrators and teachers have access to
• Data driven decision making
• Grades and attendance online
• Converting to electronic filing cabinet
• Electronic Databases

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• Dynamic resources and Curriculum instead of static
• Security and ethics
• Curriculum - delivery system (impact of PSSA’s)
• Lots of changes in the tools, but no changes in the way we teach
• Drop barriers
• More entrepreneurial
• Globally aware
• Civic awareness
• Printed texts less important than quickly updatable information
• Robust, ubiquitous Internet today... can be used for learning
• Advent of Wikipedia - like collaborative sources of information
• Students need to learn that the sources of information need to be evaluated for accuracy
• So much information that it is difficult to use and synthesize

Category: directly related to the responsibilities of higher education to support needs in education

• Problems :colleges are not producing teachers that are ready to use technology

Category: Change in methodology

• Collaborative and student driven as opposed to teacher driven
• More individualized
• Project based
• Student has some ownership of delivery method
• Different learning groups may be taught with students from around the globe
• Changes in budgetary priorities texts vs. Internet
• Distance-learning makes teaching more entrepreneurial

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Recommendations: additional professional development for IT
• Recommendations: including IT minimum skills to professional contracts
• Recommendations: Help integrating into Curriculum
• Recommendations: Mentors for teachers to help them in their classroom

Category: directly related to the impact of interaction between students and the people with whom they interact as students and members of the community, including parents

• Instant messaging swarms/mobs social activism

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Networking opportunities sparse
• Public schools are to slow to change they need to change faster
• Problems: budgeting for many district they can’t raise taxes enough to get the technology needed
• Recommendations: funding to support the TCO of integrating tech
• Recommendations: Get PDE to fund

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Connecting to internet
• Problems: support
• One to one computing
• Chalkboards are going, smartboards and whiteboards
• Technology support will be more important and must be immediate
• The expectations of technology is much higher
• Video conferencing
• May not have school buildings or buildings like today
• Anytime/Anywhere
• Transparency
• Cost of technology down

Category: Training needed

• Problems: professional development

Edinboro's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• IT: How applicable to different environments?
• IT: What is the ideal?
• IT: Balance – sometimes better doing it the old way, also need to use technology as a tool.
• Technology is more than just a computer
• Costs of technology have fallen and can even be a money saver, but the quantity spent on technology has risen. It may even be a balance.
• An issue may be that lower income schools receive a lot of grants for technology, but it does not work if the complete structure is in place. This includes teachers who know how to use it and the techs to support it.
• Online classes: Pedagogy skills not well taught online
• Online classes: Overall, do not work well – don’t do their work
• Online classes: Provides an option but not the sole answer
• More predominate

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• Students must learn to evaluate information effectively.
• Computer use is needed more for jobs now. You have to teach technology for kids to be successful.
• There are some different social skills that need to be learned, such as email etiquette.
• Students more visual: Reaching more senses – not just reading,
• Curriculum can be more condensed
• More choices are available towards curriculum – one to one learning
• Need to direct students as to what is right/wrong and how to use technology in life

Category: Change in methodology

• More group learning (collaborative) as opposed to lecture
• Not four walls in the classroom
• Global and interactive
• Creating knowledge that using previous knowledge
• Teacher facilitator and not direct instructor
• Collect data and tools to complete/quantify
• Inventive
• Real life application
• Innovative and creative
• Online courses vs. classroom
• Broader scope
• Online classes: If good student – can do well
• Need to break the “one size fits all” idea

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Teachers: Use of technology in classes is a given.
• Teachers: Faster paced profession now – demand and pace is greater, mundane work is replaced.
• Teachers: Accountability is greater for keeping work graded and updated.
• Administrators: Communication is faster and more frequent.
• Administrators: This is a great increase. Portfolios are more easily accessible digitally.
• IT: Expectation is the technology will work.
• IT: The demand is much greater than in the 90’s.
• IT: May need more IT employees to address increasing needs for servicing.
• Recommendations to Admin: Will new hires need qualifications in technology? Recommendations to Admin: Principals need to be adept at using technology.
• Recommendations to Teachers: Must stay up on new technology and programming.
• Recommendations to Teachers: Must be creative about obtaining new resources
• Differentiation instruction and everything is going to look different
• With the increasing use of technology in the classroom, there is a definite need for tech support to keep things working.
• Some teachers may be using the technology as a crutch instead of “teaching”. Also, some teachers who are less tech savvy may not be as effective as those who are.
• More differentiated in 21st century -- no time restrains
• Not your typical school day any more.
• Teacher is more of a coach, facilitator - they have access to info but need someone to direct how to use it in a positive way – know that there is danger on the web

Category: directly related to the impact of interaction between students and the people with whom they interact as students and members of the community, including parents

• Technology can’t replace teachers – need someone to help w/ ethics/social skills.
• People skills may lack if students are always in front of the computer

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• PSSA assessment needs to reflect technology values of educators and needs to be restructured to be authentic
• Economics are effected – how is it funded, this will effect area, districts, schools
• Breaking cycles of schedule – if we break schedule, we will have to create new funding ideas
• Grants - won’t last as long as you may need it, not garaunteed to get it.

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• More computers in the building
• More computers that work
• Electronic storage and record keeping
• Instant access to records and grades
• Instant feedback from observations
• Lack of resources for both rural and urban, they each have a different nature of need. Rural have connectivity issues and urban have resource issues.
• Ipods. Various records are being kept on computers now.
• Attendance, grades, even homework assignments.
• One to one mobility is ideal

Category: Training needed

• Need massive professional development

Kings College's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Citing sources have changed (APA/MLA)
• Books replacement becoming outdated
• More teacher input
• Non-tech oriented “immigrant” teachers are threatened and don’t know how to let kids incorporate the new resources.
• Different schools are effected due to availability of funding and technology support – life span of equipment – durability.

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• digital curriculum –

Category: Change in methodology

• Open-forum so that schools will look more like a business
• Open curriculum- Integrated curriculum/cross-curricular
• Differentiated instruction
• Collaboration
• Moving away from lecture-based format to project-based format
• Student essentially learning on their own- teacher a facilitator
• How we use technology
• Teachers SHOULD be guide on the side rather than sage on the stage; getting better at getting closer to this goal
• More hands-on, problem solving, cooperative learning, WebQuests; rather than strictly read, digest, regurgitate textbooks
• Instruction is more interactive; controlled chaos, more interactions
• Learning is more fragmented, segmented, meaningful segments.
• More authentic learning opportunities
• Students more empowered

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Recommendations- Re-examine the budget and identify focus/priorities
• Learning is going to change as you see the viewpoints of others around the country and around the world.
• New technology effects all positions – teachers need to learn all the new technologies, tech folks need to keep up with the new technologies – administrators need to be statistically oriented – classroom needs to change to support new computers, etc.

Category: directly related to the impact of interaction between students and the people with whom they interact as students and members of the community, including parents

• Standards now.!
• Globalization!

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Money, culture, location
• Learning continues at home, over summer, at friends’ houses, libraries, outside school hours and opportunities
• More parent engagement – better communication (electronic) –

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Communication facilitated- more opportunity/better now
• More support information for students
• Brighter: more immediate satisfaction, multimedia
• Leveling playing field with greater access (online) to resources independent (to some extent) to district budget and resources
• Global classroom
• New tools- video conferencing, global resources
• Technology more seamless in and around our schools- classroom-based, wireless, mobile labs, handhelds,
• Computers in every child’s hand –
• Mobile computing – open source software (low expense)
• Anytime, anywhere access to internet.
• security and control.
• Distance Learning – video on demand.

Mansfield's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Need the visual aspects
• What about the social, environmental, mental needs
• Do we educate not in groups or from various locations or continue in the centralized location
• what research exists?
• attention disorders

Category: directly related to how assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching can occur, and impacts on the ways it can occur

• Accountability

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• teach internet safety, security

Category: directly related to the responsibilities of higher education to support needs in education

• Partnerships with Higher Ed. To provide students with the needed tools to succeed and have higher ed provide new teachers with the needed skill to teach in this environment.

Category: Change in methodology

• more open classrooms; no longer teacher centered
• virtual schools--home schooling
• teacher will exhibit a different type of leader--a facilitator moving toward assisting student’s learning rather than being the knowledge base
• eMissions learning projects
• teacher facilitator
• simulated experiences
• collaboration experiences--online blogs, etc.
• (?) proxys (filters) less stringent--needing access to more areas that are usually blocked
• online degrees?

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• what role does maturity play is student achievement in virtual classrooms/virtual schools
• will decentralization occur in schools as students learn from home; will the brick and mortar school disappear or become a place where students gather from time to time
• geographic location will determine whether we move from larger campuses to smaller community-centered technology center.

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• What about funding for global students
• grants available (“Getting to One”)
• costs of sustainability--keeping equipment updated

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Personal computing devices
• World-wide learning??
• Have both the standard class as well as incorporating the option for global students
• Asynchronous learning
• Multi-paced students
• A system without boundaries
• technology is different
• means of communication is changing
• virtual classrooms in which teachers may or may not be in the same state
• physical school may change, but may not necessarily disappear because of need for socialiization
• socialization may become electronic; virtual socialization
• IM, myspace--students communicating through e-mail
• Blended Schools--remediation, keep charter school students and keep on roles
• less than 10% of students are involved in learning such as Blended Schools
• in next 20-30 years as this technological generation’s students enroll in schools, there will be a higher expectation that technology will become an important part of education
• virtual physics, virtual chemistry
• software can serve as motivation because of students growing up in a digital world
• tools such as Blackboard can help extend learning
• Instantaneous, constant electronic communication
• Email security and proper communications.
• Harness eCommunications for education.
• Act 183 high speed connection to deliver curriculum
• Web based delivery (distance learning)
• video conferencing
• small remote devices (feedback)
• elimination of textbooks (online textbooks)
• growth of available technology equipment
• access to school applications at home--supplemental access
• opportunities for advanced learning
• ConnectEd--application that allows a voice message sent to all parents of what their children encountered in their school day

Seton Hill's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Media feedback
• Cyber learning
• principal- people with other skills- support
• student’s know more than teachers in technology
• PSSA’s focus more on math and science as opposed to creativity
• PSSA’s limited in what it can measure
• Teacher creativity is being limited by high stakes testing
• submission of homework
• research, power libraries

Category: directly related to how assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching can occur, and impacts on the ways it can occur

• Immediate Assessment

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• More to teach, more to learn
• some subjects obsolete, like typing
• getting teachers to look at different subjects and software
• teaching oriented to math and science knowledge

Category: Change in methodology

• More time on computers
• kids are more active in their learning process
• students are more able to dictate their learning
• inclusion, differentiated instruction
• Student presentations have become very different- power point and videos, etc

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Decentralization
• 360 degree involvement-parents, teachers, students, administrators
• All by yourself- online, kids at home and on-line learning
• Teachers have less autonomy (NCLB)
• Creativity comes from students who have a teacher will stay after school

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Budgets
• budgeting is different-
• some schools have a computer/student, some still have dial-up
• widening the economic gap
• different communication with parents and homework

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Communication-enhanced via new technologies (cell phones, e-mail, web postings)
• Collaborative Tools

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