Old+&+New+Learning

Some of the Key differences between the learning styles of the Digital Natives and the Digital Immigrants.

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 * A Table to show some of the key differences between the Old and the New Classroom. ||  ||
 * = **20th Century Classrooms ** ||= **21st Century Classrooms **
 * = Time-based ||= Outcome-based ||
 * = Focus on memorization of discrete facts ||= Focus on what students KNOW, CAN DO and ARE LIKE after all the details are forgotten ||
 * = Lessons focus on lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and application ||= Learning is designed on upper levels of Bloom’s – synthesis, analysis and evaluation ||
 * = Textbook-driven ||= Research-driven ||
 * = Passive learning ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Active learning ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others around the world – the Global Classroom ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Teacher-centered: teacher is center of attention and provider of information ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/coach ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Little or no student freedom ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Great deal of student freedom ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">“Discipline problems” – educators do not trust students and vice versa. No student motivation. ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">No “discipline problems” – students and teacher have mutually respectful relationship as co-learners; students are motivated. ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Fragmented curriculum ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Grades averaged ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Grades are based on what was learned ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Low expectations ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">High expectations – “If it isn’t good, it isn’t done” We expect, and ensure, that all students succeed in learning at high levels. Some may go higher – we get out of their way to let them do that. ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Teacher is judge. No one else sees student work. ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Self, Peer and Other assessments. Public audience, authentic assessments. ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Curriculum/School is irrelevant and meaningless to the students. ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Curriculum is connected to students’ interests, experiences, talents and the real world. ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Print is the primary vehicle of learning and assessment. ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Performances, projects and multiple forms of media are used for learning and assessment. ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Diversity in students is ignored. ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Curriculum and instruction address student diversity. ||
 * = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and math ||= <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned to living and working in a globalized new millennium. ||


 * <span style="COLOR: #27119c; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">Some interesting readings on the 21st century learner and their needs. **

http://www.wisc.edu/depd/series/06_4168.pdf A paper presented to a University of Wisconsin - Annual Conference on Distance teaching and Learning 2006

//**How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy**// - By **George Lorenzo**, **Diana Oblinger**, and **Charles Dziuban** [|**http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/HowChoiceCoCreationandCul/40008**] This paper confirms that our students are digital natives but still need to be taught explicitly the skills to use web 2.0. //**"**It is wrongheaded to think that undergraduates—because they have grown up in a digital age—are better at understanding the technology they use as it relates to researching information"//