Word Clouds - 21st Century Learning!

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 Hello there!

Since the beginning of the schooling system, teachers had one unified goal in mind: To prepare their students for the future. Raising the future generations has always been a struggle, but in the past centuries it was much easier, because teachers would more or less have an idea about how the future would be for their students.

In 21st century however, where technologic developments happen overnight, there is no telling how the future is going to be. And that's why, in 21st century, we have no choice but to teach our students how to prepare themselves for the future. We need to teach our students, how to teach themselves.

To be successful, our students will need to know how to use technology to their advantage when finding, analysing, evaluating and sharing information. Good thing is that the younger people who were born into an already technology filled world (also called "Digital Natives", ) are prone to using technology more effectively than older people ("Digital Immigrants").

As teachers, we simply need to encourage our students to use technology in an academic context, and let them figure out how to use technology on their own rather than to hold their hand through the entire discovering process, as first hand experience is the greatest teacher of all time.

 

This is me signing off;

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