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John Seeley Brown - A new culture of learning
Insights from this analysisA common thread that we see with all these presentations is that creativity and creativity in collaboration is going to prepare our students for the 21st century. Multi media and technology tools are being invented and updated at such a fast rate that what we are using now what may not even be used in our near future. Our digital natives are finding ways to use their social networking to collaborate and we need to be opened to what we may see unorthodox ways of collaborating. I worry that my students don't know how to collaborate because they are not socially capable because they are constantly focused on their phones and they lack the skills to speak intelligently to one another. I feel that I am not being open to the organic learning that may be happening with there digital knowledge. Students seem very aware about social issues that are happening around them and the world and when I ask them where they heard that, they always respond, "Snap Chat, Google News" or some other social networking site. I have to be open to and accept that the digital tools will be the way students will be collaborating and thinking creatively to find others that think like them or share common educational goals.
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Jeff Albertazzi
11/15/2017 06:44:59 pm
"we need to be opened to what we may see unorthodox ways of collaborating." this struck a chord reading this after a meeting today. It is assumed all teachers are open to this change and schools and districts are ready for it. I had an issue with a student getting onto a computer, sharing the work with herself and turned it in. It is a cat and mouse game keeping up with technology. How do we embrace these new forms of communication and not fight them, but at the same time a process in place to deal with the issues that we can't even think of now.
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Kayla Bryant
11/16/2017 04:58:50 pm
I think that what you said about cell phones is a concern a lot of teachers have, but we really have to start thinking of them as communication and research tools- it seems like students are socially disconnected, but in reality they are more connected and engaged than ever before. We just need to adapt our mindset in order to take advantage of their skill sets, as they are much different from the ones we grew up with! Like you said- technology is changing so rapidly that we as teachers will probably never feel fluent in it, and we will constantly be learners alongside our students!
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