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Foundation Questions

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Students are expected to learn life-long skills such as learning, thinking, information, communications, technology and work place productivity skills.
Students need to collaborate, analyze information, solve problems, and communicate using technological tools.  
Educators need to teach student the skills necessary to compete as citizens and workers in the 21st century.

Please answer the three questions below following the directions:

 

  1. For each table on the page, enter your top 2 UNIQUE answers for the questions - based on your readings and your classroom experiences.
  2. Put your initials in the box to the right of your responses.
  3. IMPORTANT: If your answer to the question is already posted, then you MUST enter another answer. Thus, the ones who enter the information first have somewhat of an advantage. However, forcing you to come up with another answer also allows you to process the materials at a deeper level.
  4. After all 20 responses are posted, you will go back and vote for the 10 that you think are most important by adding an "X" in the column to the right of the list.

I will tabulate the results and we will then have the top ten lists that will drive the focus of your projects for the rest of this course. Future projects will be expected to address a minimum of one issue from each of the questions below.  

 

Number What are the greatest challenges that educators face today? Initials Vote Here
1  One of the greatest challenges educators face today is dealing with  an industrialized orientated society.  F.S.  
2  Today, technology has helped students become so advance that now educators must try to catchup to them.  F.S.     x       X    x  X x x
3  Educators face a great challeng today because we must prepare students for jobs that have not been created yet.  R. C.            X x x
4  Today we are in the conceptual society where we are the producers.  R. C.  
5  Educators must face personal fears of technology and learn how to use it effectively in the classroom.  C. R.  x  x
6  Educators who are willing to embrace the need for and use technology face an uphill battle with other teachers and an administration who tend to think preparing for standardized testing is the only focus.  C. R. x          x
7  There is a lack of trust that the integration of technology in core curriculum will produce student achievement in an age of accountability.  B.L. x      x     X x
8 There is a lack of understanding and appreciation for the differences in today's student population.  Traditionally trained teachers do not know how to engage what Prensky calls the digital native.  Students who require things faster and abridged and who make better meaning of images and sounds.  B.L. x  x x x x
9  Educators and administrators face the fear of losing control of the students in the classroom and hallways.  BY x  x  x
10  Educators have increasing demands on their time and are reluctant to try new concepts that they perceive will further erode their time management .  BY x    x    x  X X x
11  There is a high demand in teaching our students technology yet  a lack of resources.  PG            X  x
12  The challenge of preparing students for a global competition, education and economics.  A.G.  
13 The fear of  making the student incompetent by over using technology.  M.M.  
14  Educators and school districts need to keep up with up-to-date, latest forms of technology.  A.G.         x   
15  Pedagogy to match with technology available.  M.M. x       x     X
16 In this fast moving world, I believe that one of the greatest challenges facing educators learning to think "outside the box" to motivate their students learn. Educators must gain the skills needed to develop instruction that will engage  their students and promote learning,  M.B.  x  x
17  One of the challenges facing educators is how to offer students technology-infused experiences that go beyond just "using software". Students need to be motivated in ways that promotes student experimentation and critical thinking skills.  M.B. x  x       x     X  X x x
18  One of the challenges facing educators is competing with technological tools such as video games, music players, media players.  Students want for teachers to engage them using these same tools in order to make them want to learn.   E.G.  x
19 Another challenge facing educators today is learning how to integrate technology effectively into the subject area being taught.  An example would be using interactive lessons to engage students into learning math concepts such as measures of central tendency.  E.G.      x        
20  

Educators do not know how to apply technology in their lessons. They are afraid of change and unwilling to change.

  CG  X

 

Number What are the skills that educators must teach to prepare students for the 21st century world? Initials Vote Here
1  Educators must teach values as well as rules and regulations to students to prepare them to the self learning enviroment the 21st century world is turning out to be.  F.S.  
2  Educators must also teach students to be able to defferentiate between the online world and the true world.  Dangers do exist online and because of this, we must all get them ready for it.   F.S. x    x    x  X  X x x
3  Teachers must work as a team to teach academic subjects along with 21st century skills, such as storytelling, editing, processing information and media literacy.  R. C. x    x   x     X  X x
4  In the computer class teachers must teach students to use video cameras, editing software and other equipment to film and create their documentaries.  R. C.  
5  Educators must provide opportunities for students to work with teams and collaborate.  C. R. x     x   x    X
6

 Another necessary skill  for students to be successful in the 21st century is thinking critically to problem-solve.

CG

 

21st Century Skills

  C. R. x    x x X  X X x
7  Teachers must teach literacy, but not only in terms of being able to read and comprehend a variety of genres (high school English), but rather inclusive of document, technological, and quantitative literacy.  B.L. x   x x x X
8  Teachers must teach personal skills development: communication, respect for others, responsibility, resolving problems, working in teams, leadership, self-management , and decision-making.  B.L. x      x      X  x  X X x x
9

Students must know that they are part of a global community environmentally and economically.

  BY  x
10  Students must accept personal responsibility for their actions and conduct and understand that their behavior has consequences to themselves and the community around them.  BY x X
11  Students must learn to respect and accept diversity.  PG x    x  x
12  The educators must incorporate a variety of skills to  reflect the ever changing world of technology.  A.G.  
13  Educators need to teach students the necessary skills to become competent citizens and workers for the 21st century, such as self directed learning, ITC, time management and personal responsibility.  A.G. x     x
14  Educators need to teach students the skills necesssary to succed in a globalization society.  M.M.   x
15  Computer support learning.  M.M.  
16  More and more jobs are requiring skills that are based on scientific and mathematical core knowledge. Students have to develop skills in these critical areas if they are going to compete in the 21st century.  M.B.  
18  Educators need to help students develop skills to collaborate with others. In this day, technology will increasingly demand information sharing on a worldwide scale.  M.B.  x   x  X
19  Educators must learn how to use new technologies such as using wikis or podcasts, look for new strategies or methodologies to present concepts to students using these technologies.  E.G. x   x
20  Educators must also teach students to use technology to communicate effectively through pamphlets, brochures, web pages, powerpoint and other kinds of software.  E.G.  x

 

Number What are the characteristics/expectations of this new generation of students? Initials Vote Here
1  Students now a days expect for technology to work for them.   F.S.  
2 Students today feel that technology must be provided for them regardless of price or actual efficency of such products.   F.S.  x  X
3  Students embrace technology as a tool for communicating, sharing, learning, and creating. C. R.   x     x  x
4  Students are more involved with learning when they can do something with what they learn. C. R.  x       x        X   x
5  Students expect to be engaged: entertained, challenged, actively participate, "use" technology not just see it "PPTs"; they expect to access information on their own, expect others to be efficient with time  - give me the abridged version or get to the point; they expect answers; and they want to self-direct and self-manage their learning.  B.L. x      x    x x
6  Students want to apply technology tools (hardware and software) to present information in a variety of ways.  B.L.  x x x
7  Students are networked socially in a far diffeerent way than previous generations via cell phones, Facebook etc.  BY x    x    x
8  Student expect a "Have it your way" range of choices as consumers.  BY x     x   x  X
9  The charateristics of a the Digital Natives is that they like to receive their information really fast, parrell process and multi task, as well as prefer their graphics before their texts.   R C x   x
10  The digital natives expect the digital immigrant instructors to stop assuming that what worked yesterday to teach will not work today or tomorrow, outdated material.  R C x    x    x x
11  The implematation of technology as a tool to maximaze the resources.  M.M.  
12  Students need to collaborate, solve problems, analyze data and communicate using technology tools. A.G.   
13 Students are expected to learn life-long skills a such as critical thinking, communication, information, technology and productivity skills.  A.G  
14  The adaptation and modification of technology as a one to the benefit of the society.  M.M.  
15  I believe that many students of this generation expect technology to do the work for them and do not want to have to develop critical thinking skills.  M.B. x      x  
16  Students typically do not fear trying new things, experimenting, and enjoy a real challenge.  M.B.  
17  Students expect to have access to computers in class and to be able to get into any website they want even though it is not educational.  E.G. x   x  
18  Students are very inquisitive and like to learn about new real world experiences through the use of computer simulation games.  An example of this would be participating in the Stockmarket Game.  E.G. x      x    x   X x
19

This new Y generation of students expect teachers to know more than them, but the truth is that students know more than the teachers.

  CG  X
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