About

My name is Emily Fewster and I am a student at Macquarie University, NSW. This blog is my creative response to EDUC107 Assignment 3, 21st century teachers should….

picture of an e-learning classroom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It is my belief that 21st Century Teachers should embrace technology based learning in the classroom.

Information and communication technology is rapidly changing life both inside and outside the classroom and around the world. In this blog I touch on how good selection and design of learning technologies can:

• help provide students with 21st century skills and knowledge to succeed in an innovative, fast paced, global society and economy.
• provide opportunities for meaningful learning
• be utilised with many styles of teacher pedagogy and practice,
•  support different learning styles and ability (including disabilty), and
• even change the face of education in terms of how, where and when students learn and potentially what they learn.

Posts

Browse through my posts to read more about why I believe 21st Century Teachers should embrace technology based learning in the classroom starting here.

Reference Pages

To find out more about 21st Century Learning Skills you can visit the P21 page above. The TPACK Model page gives you one design approach for weaving content, pedagogy and technology together to achieve learning goals. Technology Affordances is about unpacking the different attributes of a learning technology so you can determine its suitability for your learning outcomes and pedagogical approach.

Technology is here to stay. As a pre-service teacher I am convinced that the little steps I am taking towards upskilling myself on learning technologies will pay dividends for my students, my school and teaching capabilities in the future.

 

Acknowledgements:

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