Parkview Parent Blog - Newest Entry - 2/22/09
21st Century Learning
Recently I read an observation from a high school student (probably not in Iowa) who said that she has to “power down” when she goes to school, a place where her opportunities to collaboratively interact with cognatively demanding content are to far and few between. Outside the four walls of her school, she powers up tool in her 21st Century digital environment (iPhone/iTouch, wikis, collaborative digital note-taking, google docs, digital recording devises, social networking sites, threaded discussions, podcasting, twittering, and on and on) and returns to an environment in which she navigates with ease.
Our students come to us as digital natives, experts who effortlessly navigate the digital landscape. Our mission is to maximize student use of digital tools that maximize thri collaborative interaction with complex learning that can occur outside of the four walls of our school building, not depedent on a particular operating system, and unconstrained by a period or bell schedule.
The great news is that we have expertise right here within our school district to move teaching and learning to a higher levels incorporating 21st Century skills.
