After the latest round of cute kids and tech-savvy college students, I thought I’d put together my own take on who’s a 21st Century Learner.
Let me know what you think.
After the latest round of cute kids and tech-savvy college students, I thought I’d put together my own take on who’s a 21st Century Learner.
Let me know what you think.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Very thought provoking. A great way to turn it back to the audience…we are all 21st century learners whether we realize it or not. I’m wondering where your motivation comes from and how do we instill that in other 21st century learners, aka our students. I know they are learning from things like SNS, You Tube, etc, but in order for them to write, and produce podcasts there is content knowledge they must have, otherwise, the things they produce will be junk. How will they be motivated to blog or produce quality works related to math, history, etc. if they are not interested in these topics?
March 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
The process of creation is learning. How to do this or that better. How to get a feeling. How to set a tone.
Young people’s stories are simple — often simplistic — but they are engaged in creative efforts from the time they leave school until the time they return.
I’m not convinced they need to “quality works related to math, history, etc” … Those are the topics that are important to adults and - frankly - a bit arbitrary. Now, having them write a story set in some other place and time — if they’re interested in telling stories — that’s going to require a lot of background to make it believable.
The problem is that motivation for being creative doesn’t come from having to turn in the work for a grade. It comes from needing to be creative for who you are. My friend, Donal, has convinced me that what separates us from the animals is not tool use, but the creation of art. More and more it seems like the purpose of school it to convince kids that creativity is bad — that art is something rarer than Pro Sports.
I’m not buying it. I set out to tell a few simple stories. It’s taken on a life of its own and not in any of the ways I anticipated. The implication for the New Economy - a collection of collaborators who come together to do as a group hat they couldn’t do as individuals — is very important.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Creativity is something that should be cherished in our society. Creative minds develop creative solutions to the world’s problems. A writer or artist who has the ability to create a story by simply using their gift to provide the medium to tell it extraordinary. Creativity can go a long way. The way content is received depends, a large part, on what kind of creative means we are using in our explanations. Being a good role model for creativity will provide students with that jump start to explore their own creative nature.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:08 am
I liked the video. It made me realize that so many people are 21 Century Learners, and I probably spend 30 hours a week online at least.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Okay, you made your point and well. When I first saw the title I was thinking that this was going to be about me and the fact that I am a 21st century learner in the fact that I am taking classes and learning online. But the point that I miss in my original theory is that unlike previous time periods, most learners were placed in a box called a classroom or world of traditional learning concepts. And the fact that learners don’t have an age limit or style of learning.
I really liked how you mentioned what your learning tools were and they weren’t the conventional types of learning like I learned when I was in school.
Okay you showed us how you were learning and tools that helped you. Now show us what you learned and how those tools made the material more valuable than using other more traditional tools. Show us how you are learning now at age 55 compared to 15 or even 30 years ago.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I maintain that *most* learning NEVER happened in a classroom. Doesn’t today. Didn’t when I was in school. Won’t in the future.
EDUCATION … that’s a different question.
Learning? No, learning happens in the street, in the bedrooms, at the kitchen tables, and in the hearts and minds.
But that’s a good challenge. I need to think of how to represent it.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Awesome video! I loved it and makes me want to produce my own. You have hit the nail on the head with your comment that learning takes place in the street, in the bedrooms, at the kitchen tables, and in the hearts and minds. We can’t teach the things that students need to learn for life. Life’s lessons come from peers, family, and most of all your parents. Bill Cosby was on Oprah the other day and was speaking out about the state of crisis our children are in. He was saying it is ok to walk in your child’s room without knocking first. It is your house. It is ok to say, NO you can’t listen to that music since it has profanity in it. I agree with Bill Cosby greatly and think that his appearance on Oprah could be a PD for parents. So, my answer for “how to represent” that learning occurs outside the classroom would be to use the fact that kids learn from their parents. I’m sure everyone has examples of their child acting like them even if they didn’t teach them that. I always love it when a parents says, “I don’t know where they learned that from”. Of course, your do, you just don’t want to admit it.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Wow! The video really made me sit up and take notice of the technological world we are really living in at this time. All of this is so new to me. I cannot begin to fathom how far we will continue to go before I am even able to catch up with today. I am trying, but this is a whole new world for me. I just wish it all came easy to me as it seems to for you. By the way, I loved the music, Nightowl. Where exactly did it come from?
March 8th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I like the video. I think it sums up everything we have talked about so far in class. First of all, I don’t know how you find the time. Second of all, I have always had the opinion that when I spend time on the computer I am disconnected from my family. I realize that when we watch TV, we aren’t actually connecting with our family but we can at least do this activity together at the same time and share the experience and talk about it again and again. I think it is difficult, maybe even impossible, to spend much time on the computer and still communicate with those in my house. I would say that you are an exception but based on your statistics you’re really not. What’s most impressive to me is that so many people of your generation and older are not intimidated by these technologies. Because I am.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:02 am
the nightowl album is from the Internet Archive
March 9th, 2008 at 12:43 am
The video is thought provoking. After reading more in the Papert book and discussing what I had read with my colleagues at lunch, I have more and more questions. So he says schools haven’t changed in the last hundred years unlike the medical profession. Learners have changed though which is shown in your little video. What we do is different. What tools we use are different. The number of jobs we have has increased. So why is School still the same? It seems to me students who “do well” in school aren’t necessarily the smartest kids. They are the kids that conform to the way school works. They get it. They understand and probably at an early age how they are supposed to behave, act, and learn while at school. Those are the good kids, the ones with bright futures. Are they though really? Or are they just good at following directions?
See I told you, I have a lot of questions. The more I read and think, the more questions come to mind!
March 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am
The future is here just not evenly distributed……
The future seems so dynamic and most people are unaware how information exchange is going to change our world. The revolution will not be televised, it will be webcast.
But a very good video to demonstrate how much information is out there and how people think and process information is changing.
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March 9th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I really like your video. It does make one think about how things are different from when most of us went to school. We live in an age where technology is changing rapidly and if we as teachers and learners don’t get on the train or should I say the shuttle, we will be left on a dead planet.
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