DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Teachers' Challenges for 21st Century Learning - 9 views
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Recreating and retooling the teaching practice is a must to well serve students in today’s 21st century learning ecosystem. The real question isn’t ‘will we need teachers’, but ‘what will teachers need to be able to do’ in the new environment.
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The teachers’ challenge is threefold. One – to change his/her own foundational beliefs and practices; two – to coach students to become self-directed learners where they do two thirds of the heavy learning lifting toward achievement; three – integrate technologies in meaningful, relevant ways. Each of these is a challenge that requires high quality employee-directed and employer-directed professional development.
