Teaching to Support the 21st Century Learner Patricia Kahn

Teaching to Support the 21st Century Learner

Patricia Kahn

Some Background• Summer Evening

Course• Blended• 15 Students• 50% technology

proficient• 50% taking the

course to become ESL certified

What Will be Presented?

• Demonstrate different technologies through practical application, exploration, and collaboration

• Determine how these technologies can be integrated into a learning environment that supports today's learner.

What Will You Gain from this Presentation?

• How learners became knowledgeable about learning theories

• How to integrate a variety of technologies into their pedagogy in order to support these theories.

What Will you Gain from this Presentation?

• Creation of an e-Portfolio that will highlight students’ projects and their reflections on how these technologies can be integrated into their pedagogy.

Structure and Planning

• No surprises

• Look ahead

• Learning Units

Start with what the Student’s Know

• Take the Socratic Approach

• Make the students feel comfortable

• Attend to what people thought they knew and gradually take them into unfamiliar territory

Learn Outside of Class

• Plan the course backwards

• Encourage students to learn outside of class to accomplish their objectives

Engage Students in Disciplinary Thinking

• Knowledge cannot be acquired through rote memorization

• Students need an opportunity to reason, analyze, and construct their own opinion

Create Diverse Learning Environments

• Conduct the class in a variety of ways using different techniques to accommodate different learning styles

Seek Commitment

• Ask students to commit to the class and learning

• Teachers commit to the content that they will be providing will be worth the student’s time

Results

• Reinforced each of the learning theories

• Actively engaged in their own learning

• Became familiar with technology

• Apply in their teaching

Let’s See Some Examples…

• Behaviorist– Reinforcement and feedback

• Cognitive– Built on scaffolding discussed in

Behaviorist Learning Theory

– Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive objectives

– Learner becomes an active participant interacting with new information

Let’s See Some Examples…

• Socialism– Learning occurs through collaboration,

practice, and assessment of prior knowledge, – Learning should not go beyond the learner’s

capabilities or zone of proximal development– Make connections among their peers and

community creating learning environments that promote personal involvement and shared knowledge

Let’s See Some Examples…

http://netdrive.montclair.edu/~martinezj7/personal/index.htmhttp://netdrive.montclair.edu/~kozlowskik1/Languages/http://netdrive.montclair.edu/~costellok/personal/index.htm

Socialism Blogging/DiscussionBeing particularly a visual and interpersonal learner

myself, I really love using the discussion board. 

I like to share information and I am eager and curious to see what others will share.  It is definitely true that others' postings activate thoughts in my brain that would not have been activated otherwise. 

I enjoy seeing things through the "eyes of others" rather than just from my own perspective. 

– Learning occurs by doing

– Knowledge is constructed from the experience

– Learners will develop their own viewpoint or constructs

– See the problem from different perspectives

– Negotiate and generate meanings and solutions through a shared understanding, experience, collaboration, and reflection

•Constructivism

Let’s See Some Examples…

Hi all - this is a tiny presentation of my trip to Belgrade for New Year's. The original plan was to spend New Year's in Paris with my best friend Marie that live in France. But things change and  we wound up in Belgrade.

I really think this presentation would be 80 times better with audio, as it would probably answer questions along the way. Anyway, enjoy!

Not only can I use BubbleShare to present something visually and to stimulate conversation in the language related to a real-life situation, but I could envision having the students create their own BubbleShare stories and share them with their peers (just as we are enjoying doing)! 

This technology absolutely supports constructivist learning theory by presenting the learners with visual images that not only interest them but help them construct their own meaning

By adding the sharing feature, if they create their own "stories", we also capitalize on the interactive communication with their peers and enlarge the scope of learning.

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