Why Learn With Technology?
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Why Learn With
Technology?
Why Learn With
Technology?
What kinds of skills do students need?What kinds of skills do students need?
Lower income students use computers more often for repetitive practice,
whereas higher-income students use computers more often for more
sophisticated intellectually complex applicationsHenry Jay Becker “Who’s Wired and Who’s Not:
Children’s Access to and Use of Computer Technology” Children and Computer
Technology, Vol. 10, No. 2 Fall/Winter, 2000
Old and New Skills: Old and New Skills:
• Communicating• Communicating• Collaborating• Collaborating
• Judging• Judging
• Knowing• Knowing
New 21st Century skill:
Interpreting images and sounds in historical, scientific, aesthetic or
imaginative contexts
Old 21st Century skill:
Using images, sounds and animation effects as raw material for communication purposes
• Communicating• Communicating
New 21st Century skill:
Taking responsibility for differentiated roles and tasks
Old 21st Century skill:
Expanding the pool of collaborators to include people outside the classroom
• Collaborating• Collaborating
New 21st Century skill:
Learning coherent standards to evaluate information
Old 21st Century skill:
Applying different criteria to evaluate multiple sources of information produced for
different purposes
• Judging• Judging
New 21st Century skill:
Learning to understand a predefined canon in various disciplines via textbooks
Old 21st Century skill:
Learning how to construct knowledge from a fluid set of “building blocks” available online
• Knowing• Knowing
Equity?