Offering real life experiences is a goal of ours at J.R. Gerritts Middle School. We encourage our students to become life long learners and develop skills to help them take charge of their own learning and to create their own learning opportunities.
The Computer Applications Department at J.R. Gerritts Middle School is designed to prepare our students for the 21st Century. Students are engaging in technical applications more and more and we strive to make sure our students are ready.
We not only teach the technical abilities, but also the less concrete aspects. We teach our students how to critically think through a task, work in teams collaboratively and how to reach out to the global community using the technology readily available to us.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Our 21st Century Learners

"Our students must be nomadic, flexible, mobile learners who depend not so much on what they can recall as on their ability to connect with people and resources and edit content on their desktops, or even more likely, on pocket sized devices they carry around with them. Our teachers have to be co-learners in this process, modeling their own use of connections and networks and understanding the practical, pedagogical implications of these technologies." (technology guru, Will Richardson 2008)

Sites to check out:
the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st Century Learner (http://www.ala.org)
the International Society for Technology in Educations's National Educational Technology Standards (http://www.iste.org)
Posted by Mrs. Froze

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