This URL is important to me because today’s mobile technology enables
children to have nearly 24-hour media access, and many students are spending
close to eight hours per day using entertainment media, according to new
research from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Yet, when students enter the
typical K-12 classroom, they’re forced to “power down” in order to learn. But
it doesn’t have to be that way. And, in a growing number of schools that have
embraced 21st-century teaching and learning, it’s not.
Voice amplification systems, digital
projectors, document cameras, interactive whiteboards, personal response systems,
and other handheld devices; these are among the many technologies that are
quickly becoming essential tools for helping 21st-century teachers engage their
students’ interest and make learning more interactive.
This URL is important because it
discuss Learning for the 21st Century, a report from a new public-private
coalition known as the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
(www.21stcenturyskills.org), articulates a vision of how schools can best
prepare students to succeed in the first decades of the 21st century.
This URL has a film that looks
specifically at the ways that the latest digital and mobile technologies can
potentially transform the ways that young people communicate, collaborate, and
learn. Each film looks specifically at the ways in which the latest
technologies including the mobile and digital technologies that are at the
heart of the Mobile Learning Institute program can potentially transform young
people's educational experience. Each leader begins from a personal frame of
reference, arguing for the urgency of releasing students from traditional
American models of schooling. Each also suggests that the key to transforming
contemporary education rests in giving kids the tools to produce, share, and
evaluate their own knowledge.
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