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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Texas Long Range Plan - The 21st Century Learner
Today students of all ages are carrying around cell phones and smart phones. They have the ability to call, text, or email anyone at the touch of a button. They are multi-tasking at all times, though sometimes not very effectively. They walk across the parking lot while texting and talking and I fear they are not observing the world around them, just the world in their hands. The share information through postings, pictures and videos. If they need information, they immediately go to the internet to find it. How do you get the attention of these students?
The Texas Long Range Plan assists school districts, administrators and teachers with this task. Our schools must have a supporting infastructure for technology. Teachers have to be introduced to the technology and trained on how to incorporate it into the daily lessons. Adminstrators are tasked with ensuring that the teachers and the school are meeting the state requirements. It also provides the necessary guidance for teachers to introduce technology to students through the section Introducing the 21st Century Learner. The National Educational Technology Plan (2004) indicates that the technological enthusiasm of our students is causing our schools, curriculum and methods to change. Students need to be able to learn through the technology, which they are more comfortable with than we are. They must also be able to utilize the technology to find information, evaulate the infomration, and move them to the next phase in life - employment.
The Texas Long Range Plan reports that 85 % of K-3 students do homework on a computer. Technology is not new to our younger children. What teachers are finding is that they expected their students to not be prepared for the technological changes in the lessons; however, they are finding that the students are showing them as much as they are being taught. The teachers will need to ensure that the technology does not take over the lesson plan and that the applicable lesson is learned in a way that reaches the student. The teachers must also be willing to let the students show them alternate ways to do things with technology. Gone are the days of read a book and write a book report. Locally, state-wide and nationally, students are now creating virtual stories, lessons, slide shows, videos and online blogs based on information. Many of these new projects are shared by educators and students. They can be found on educational websites as well as places such as You Tube. Teachers are no longer limited to working with just the staff in their own school, they can collaborate with other teachers across the nation and around the world. Many teachers are now taking this opportunity to have collaborative projects with other countries. To think, this concept previously was limited by time and distance when students became pen pals or sent Flat Stanley projects around the world via first class mail.
Where are we headed? I firmly believe that traditional learning - sitting in a desk and the teacher lecturing or the students reading a book - are changing drastically and quickly. Students expect to interact and with the new technological advances they are taking the lead on their own learning. Younger students will have an easier time transitioning to the workforce, as is the goal of the Texas Long Range Plan.
The Texas Long Range Plan assists school districts, administrators and teachers with this task. Our schools must have a supporting infastructure for technology. Teachers have to be introduced to the technology and trained on how to incorporate it into the daily lessons. Adminstrators are tasked with ensuring that the teachers and the school are meeting the state requirements. It also provides the necessary guidance for teachers to introduce technology to students through the section Introducing the 21st Century Learner. The National Educational Technology Plan (2004) indicates that the technological enthusiasm of our students is causing our schools, curriculum and methods to change. Students need to be able to learn through the technology, which they are more comfortable with than we are. They must also be able to utilize the technology to find information, evaulate the infomration, and move them to the next phase in life - employment.
The Texas Long Range Plan reports that 85 % of K-3 students do homework on a computer. Technology is not new to our younger children. What teachers are finding is that they expected their students to not be prepared for the technological changes in the lessons; however, they are finding that the students are showing them as much as they are being taught. The teachers will need to ensure that the technology does not take over the lesson plan and that the applicable lesson is learned in a way that reaches the student. The teachers must also be willing to let the students show them alternate ways to do things with technology. Gone are the days of read a book and write a book report. Locally, state-wide and nationally, students are now creating virtual stories, lessons, slide shows, videos and online blogs based on information. Many of these new projects are shared by educators and students. They can be found on educational websites as well as places such as You Tube. Teachers are no longer limited to working with just the staff in their own school, they can collaborate with other teachers across the nation and around the world. Many teachers are now taking this opportunity to have collaborative projects with other countries. To think, this concept previously was limited by time and distance when students became pen pals or sent Flat Stanley projects around the world via first class mail.
Where are we headed? I firmly believe that traditional learning - sitting in a desk and the teacher lecturing or the students reading a book - are changing drastically and quickly. Students expect to interact and with the new technological advances they are taking the lead on their own learning. Younger students will have an easier time transitioning to the workforce, as is the goal of the Texas Long Range Plan.
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