Chapter 2 Powerpoint

Understanding 21st Century Learners

By: Megan Anderson, Audriana Beckman, and Shari Beavers

What is learning?

Learning with

Technology

Media

World Issues

Multicultural Influences

Learning is development of new knowledge, skills, or attitudes as a person interacts with information and their environment.

Technology

21st Century Learners- Need to be prepared to face the challenges of constant

learning and the increased skill requirements for the future.

- Uncertain tomorrow

- Life long learning

- Understanding how shifting knowledge and skills effect their future

Characteristics of 21st Century Learners

Learners expect to:

Be engaged in active and hands on learning

Develop their own inquiry knowledge

Learn without isolation

Active & Hands On Learning

- Explore ideas in their own ways

- Teacher is a facilitator

- Create applications for new knowledge

Inquiry Learning

Knowledge grows at an exponential rate

Used to help gather facts

Develop an accessible “data base” of information

Non Isolation Learning

Learning from multiple formats and resources

Overlap content areas

Share information with others

Challenge their skills

Metacognition

- Used to describe the ability to oversee personal learning and to understand how to regulate their learning process

- Students assess their learning. They are aware of their levels of learning

Motivation

o The desire to see a task to completion

o Internal state that defines what people will do rather than what they can do

o Understand Student Motivation

Keller’s ARCS Model

Attention

Relevance

Confidence

Satisfaction

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

o Verbal/Linguistic

o Logical/Methematical

o Visual/Spacial

o Musical/Rhythmic

o Interpersonal

o Intrapersonal

o Naturalist

Information Processing

Also thought of as “Mind Styles” used to group learners by concrete styles

o Concrete Sequential (Hands On)

o Concrete Random (Trial and Error)

o Abstract Sequential (Verbal)

o Abstract Random (Group Discussion)

Physiological Factors

o Gender differences

o Health

o Environmental Conditions

o Basic Needs (Hunger, noise, lighting, temp.)

References

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