21st+Century+Learner

= Turning On The Lights =

Small Group Summary:
- When asked about school, students around the world all answer the same: School is BORING - Educators need to talk with students about how they want to learn - PD should not occur without students present to share their thoughts and opinions about their own learning - Even when students are able to share their thinking, they are skeptical that anything will change in their education, based on the input that they give to adults. - Students believe that teachers think of technology as tool, when in fact, they should be thinking of technology as a basis for everything students do

Pull Quote:
Unlike in the corporate world, where businesses spend tens of millions researching what their consumers really want, when it comes to how we structure and organize our kids' education, we generally don't make the slightest attempt to listen to, or even care, what students think about how they are taught. 

Special Report: The Digital Learner
This is unacceptable and untenable. It's also dangerous. We treat our students the way we treated women before suffrage -- their opinions have no weight. But just as we now insist that women have an equal voice in politics, work, and other domains, we will, I predict, begin accepting and insisting that students have an equal voice in their own education. Or else our students will drop out (as they are doing), shoot at us (ditto), sue us, riot, or worse.
 * Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner
 * [|Wii Love Learning: Using Gaming Technology to Engage Students]
 * [|No More Pencils, No More Books: A School of the Future Readies for Launch]
 * [|Tech Without Support: IT Snags Hamper Schools' Technology Use]
 * [|Zero-Thumb Game: How to Tame Texting]
 * [|Train Yourself: A Guide to Online Tutorials]
 * **//Video://** // [|The Sound of Learning: Albano Berberi] //