21st Century Learning is a new, modern line of thought about how education must be achieved in today's world, and how it must relate and interact with the many emerging technologies of the 21st century. Teachers still use old-school methods for tutoring students in traditional classroom settings. Having been educated decades ago, teachers are not able to adapt their tutoring techniques easily to new technology, and the fundamental principles of 21st century learning are designed to increase the connection between student learning and the new technologies that are available today.
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| Computers are examples of technology essential to student-centered research in 21st century learning |
The internet, computers, and smartphones have all facilitated access to an incredible variety of information about all kinds of topics imaginable - information that people once had to look for hours in libraries, skimming through thick encyclopedias. Before all of this technology existed, the most efficient method for learning was for teachers to provide the information to students through lectures and explanations of materials given in textbooks. But the key fundamental of 21st century learning is that students must do their own research now to learn, and to simply be supervised by teachers. Another important aspect of 21st century learning is community events hosted by schools that let students incorporate their learning into the real world.
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| The development of web 2.0 has been a wonderful asset to 21st century learning |
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When the internet transitioned from web 1.0 to web 2.0 at the turn of the century, this marked the start of a new era. For years after the internet's original launching, people could only view traditional web 1.0 sites where they could read and learn info. But then sites transitioned to web 2.0 - people can now both read and interact/edit. Web 2.0 sites include numerous social media forums like Facebook and Instagram through which people can interact with each other. Another trademark characteristic of other web 2.0 sites is users' ability to edit given information (on sites like Wikipedia, which depend on collaborative revision), or to comment their thoughts about existing materials. The blog I am writing right now is a web 2.0 sites; with the development of 2.0, it became possible for internet users to start their own websites where they would voice their thoughts or provide their own information. Web 2.0 is important to 21st century learning, because it allows students not to just do their own research via technology, but to do so collaboratively and gain greater knowledge from becoming the "internet providers" of the very same information that they are learning. Through revision and discussion in a collaborative environment, students learn more than just from simple research and reading.
Technology has redefined the ways in which students learn, giving birth to the concepts of 21st century learning, and the more recent rise of web 2.0 has created new room for social interaction and collaborative learning in a virtual setting. The days of physical classroom learning from teacher lectures are fading...
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