1- Maintain good communication skills

A successful teacher is one that is able to build a rapport with his /her students, one
that can easily connect with his learners and feel their needs as individuals. Open and
clear communication is the key to develop a healthy friendly learning atmosphere inside
your class.

2- Getting students engagement

There is nothing as challenging as getting students engaged. Today's students are
multitasked and can hardly maintain a long concentration. They can easily get bored
and therefore disconnected. There are many ways you can fight off this problem : Use
interesting educational games and activities, use technology and multimedia resources
and finally make your teaching student-centred and try your maximum to relate what
you teach to students immediate environment.

3- Use Humour
Relevant doses of humour to spice up your teaching are highly recommended. Forget
about the authoritative and coercive style of teaching , for experience proved that it
only disheartens learners and kills their motivation. Use humour at appropriate times;
this can lead to students engagement and build up their confidence.

4- Act don't react

Students are very smart and it is part of their juvenile nature to try to get you.
Sometimes ignoring a disruptive behaviour is way better than reacting to it and in case
it becomes repetitive or serious then make sure to talk it out with the student involved
alone and not in front of the whole class.

5- Be clear and precise in your instructions

Remember you are teaching digitally focused students with short attention span.
Several of the problems some teachers face are due to ambiguous and unclear
instructions. Cut off on the clutter and be to the point. Show them the red lines and
explain to them classroom ethics and what you can tolerate.

6- Give room to individualized learning

Not all students are equal in their comprehensive power. Students learn in different
ways, some students are slow learners and others are quick, some kinaesthetic ( learn
by experience or doing ) others are auditory or visual. Keep these considerations in your
mind and do your best to tend to every kind of learner you might have in your class.

7- Positive feedback
" good job, excellent,..ect" are simple words that might not mean anything to you but
they mean the whole world to students. Think back to the days when you were a
student and how a positive feedback from your teacher would make both your and
your parents whole day. Publicly praise positive behaviour and show your students that
you are celebrating their achievements as well.
8- Involve students in decision making
Students tend to do great when they feel they are trusted and that they are real parts
in the learning / teaching operation. Use voting and polling to investigate about a
certain topic or classroom assignment. Try from time to time to give them the wheel and
let them lead.

9- Use peer learning

Peer learning is a form of 'cooperative learning that enhances the value of student-
student interaction and results in various advantageous learning outcomes'. Here are
some of the strategies to help you facilitate successful peer learning as stated in this
article :

"Buzz groups : This is a large group of students subdivided into smaller groups
of 4-5 students to consider issues surrounding a problem.

Affinity groups : Groups of 4-5 students are each assigned particular tasks to
work on outside of formal contact time

Solution and critic groups ; One sub-group is assigned a discussion topic for a
tutorial and the other groups constitute critics who observe, offer comments and
evaluate the sub-group presentation

Teach-Write-Discuss : At the end of a unit of instruction, students have to

answer short question and justify their answers. After working on them individually
they can then compare their answers with each others."

10- Love your subject/ job

The best way to get students interested in your subject is to love it so much that your
passion for the field shows in your attitude. Students positively respond to authenticity.
And as Abraham Lincoln once said " Love the job you do and you will never have to work
a day ".

How Do You Define 21st-Century Learning?

The term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such
as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates
believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world. In a broader sense,
however, the idea of what learning in the 21st century should look like is open to
interpretationand controversy.
To get a sense of how views on the subject alignand differwe recently asked a range of
education experts to define 21st-century learning from their own perspectives.
Twenty-first-century learning shouldnt be controversial. It is simply an effort to define
modern learning using modern tools. (The problem is that whats modern in 2010 has
accelerated far beyond 2000, a year which now seems so last century.)
Twenty-first-century learning builds upon such past conceptions of learning as core
knowledge in subject areas and recasts them for todays world, where a global perspective
and collaboration skills are critical. Its no longer enough to know things. Its even more
important to stay curious about finding out things.
The Internet, which has enabled instant global communication and access to information,
likewise holds the key to enacting a new educational system, where students use
information at their fingertips and work in teams to accomplish more than what one
individual can alone, mirroring the 21st-century workplace. If 10 years from now we are still
debating 21st-century learning, it would be a clear sign that a permanent myopia has
clouded what should be 20/20 vision.

As a follow up to my post on 10 Signs of a 21st Century Classroom, I would like to share some ideas that
we have at my school for achieving these goals. Some are actively implemented by a significant number
of our faculty, while others are still just an idea being trialed by one or two teachers. I am starting with
technology integration (a subject on which much has already been written). I am by no means saying that
these are the best or only ideas out there.

Flipped Classrooms

So much has been shared regarding this idea already that I dont want to spend too much time rehashing.
Our experience with flipping classrooms has seen the most impact with on-level students. Advanced
students seem to perform just as well regardless of how the material is presented. Flipping is occurring
primarily in chemistry, history, and algebra classes, but more teachers were exposed to the concept
during a Tech Tuesday presentation. For more information see Edutopias Flipped Classroom Topic.

Digital Citizenship

Just because students have been using technology their entire lives is no guarantee that they know how
to use them properly. A new freshman skills course is introducing students to concepts such as privacy,
cyber bullying, and copyright infringement.

Student Response Systems

Receiving instantaneous feedback from students has several advantages. Teachers can see immediately
where gaps exist in student knowledge. Students have the opportunity to state their opinions
anonymously. Warmups and exit tickets can be collected paperlessly. While in the past, this sort of
feedback required dedicated devices (clickers), a number of free resources exist to allow any student
device to send and collect data. We primarily use Socrative and Google Forms.

Science Probeware

I absolutely love teaching science. We always seem to get the best toys. A number of companies are
producing sensors that can provide measurements of any number of features: pH, ultraviolet radiation,
nitrate levels in water, gamma radiation, wind speed, etc. This can allow students to perform a more
quantitative analysis of conditions during a laboratory exercise and develop better models to explain
phenomena.
Participatory Research

One of the great blessings of the internet is not merely to read what others have written, but to contribute
to the vast body of knowledge that exists. Our environmental science class has the ability to record local
weather and conditions in a nearby stream. This data can be used not only by our own students, but
made available to other groups online. Our students also participate in citizen science through such sites
as Zooniverse, where they can assist in actual research while learning about supernovae, ocean
ecosystems, or the lives of soldiers during WWI.

Student Created Media

Addressing another important pillar in the 21st Century, technology provides opportunities for students to
express their creativity. Often, in the past, a research project had only one feasible product: a paper.
While certainly possible before the advent of technology in classrooms, it is much more likely now to see
students presenting a video or computer animation as a final project.

Virtual Field Trips

It is very difficult to schedule field trips. Bus drivers must be found, fees must be collected, and instructors
of other courses must be convinced that the trip has educational value equal to the class time missed.
Services such as Skype and Google Hangouts can bring in experts from anywhere in the world without
the hassle of travel or vetting by administration. Recent improvements to online map services (i.e. street
level imagery) can allow students a view into the wider world outside their own community.

Notes:

1. The question might be raised: Why is technology necessary? My methods have worked for years. Why
fix what isn't broken? It is a mistake to think that even if certain methods worked in the past, they will
continue to be successful. The world does not stand still. The needs and requirements of learners are
constantly changing and we must change with them.

2. We are a BYOD school. I have not listed this as a way to integrate technology because merely having
the technology present means nothing. It must be used. We do have certain restrictions on what students
may use as their primary device. As a private school, we have more ability to ask students to purchase
specific products.

3. A very real concern involves helping students to remain on task while using their devices. We have
experimented with teacher software that allows oversight and control of student equipment, but with our
BYOD policy, it has proven to be difficult. Here, the old ways appear to be the best ways. Teachers are
encouraged to circulate through the classroom and communicate clear expectations.

4. To make this list, the use of technology had to achieve a new objective or achieve an objective in a
significantly different way (taking notes on a computer doesn't count). Its not worth doing something if its
not doing something different.
Education Technology Policy for a 21st
Century Learning System
Authors:

Charles Taylor Kerchner

Year of publication:

May 2013

Publication:

Policy Analysis for California Education

Internet-related technology has the capacity to change the learning production system
in three important ways. First, it creates the capacity to move from the existing batch
processing system of teaching and learning to a much more individualized learning
system capable of matching instructional style and pace to a students needs.

Second, technology can help make the learning system smart. Adaptive software
responds to student activity, providing options, assistance, and challenges. It can also
provide feedback to teachers, allowing them to intervene and adjust.

Third, Internet-based technology has the capacity to switch learning production from its
traditional hierarchy to a much more open network. Currently, the official curriculum,
along with associated lessons and tests, flows from a small oligopoly of publishers
whose actions are guided by a handful of large states and school districts. The
economies of scale inherent in curriculum packaging concentrate political and economic
advantage and reinforce the tendency toward one best system and one-size-fits-all
solutions. The network capacity of the Internet opens the production of learning to
groups of teachers, small enterprises, and individuals.

In this policy brief Charles Taylor Kerchner argues that California has an opportunity to
take the lead in harnessing digital technologies and online resources to dramatically
improve the performance of the states schools and students. He identifies key policy
changes that the state can adopt to take full advantage of the promise of what he calls
Learning 2.0.
Educational Technology in the 21st Century
1. 1. Role of Educational Technologyin the 21stCentury JaypeeBorja, RN
2. 2. What could you say?
3. 3. What is Educational Technology?
4. 4. It is the use of technology to improve education. It is a systematic, iterative process for
designing instruction or training used to improve performance. It is sometimes also known as
instructional technology or learning technology
5. 5. Educational Technology, consist of designs and environments that engage learner and
reliable technique or method for engaging learning such as cognitive learning strategies and
critical thinking skills.
6. 6. Technology It is also the application of science (the combination of scientific method and
materials) to meet an objective to solve a problem Is a body of knowledge used to create
tools, develop skills and extract materials
7. 7. Educational Technology in the 21stcentury
8. 8. Teachers in this new environment will become less as instructors and more as
orchestrators of information, giving the students the ability to turn knowledge into wisdom.
9. 9. Teachers and administrators need to cultivate and maintain the students interest in the
material by showing how this knowledge applies in the real world.
10. 10. The Traditional Classroom Ancient Greece Spanish Era Common Classroom
11. 11. TRADITIONAL Delivery vehicles for instructional lessons Technology serves as a
teacher.
12. 12. CONSTRUCTIVIST Partners in the learning process Technology is a learning tool to
learn with, not from.
13. 13. From a constructivist perspective, the following are the roles of technology in learning:
(Jonassen, et al 1990)
14. 14. Technology can play a traditional role, i.e. as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons or
in a constructivist way as partners in the learning process.
15. 15. Whether used from the traditional or constructivist point of view, when used effectively, it
increases students learning, understanding, and achievement but also augments,
motivation to learn, encourages collaborative learning and supports the development of
critical thinking and problem- solving skills (Shacterand Fagnano, 1999)
16. 16. It allows the teacher to utilize many resources that can make teaching more efficient and
effective
17. 17. It also provide assistance in creation, administration and implementation of the following:
Visual Aids Recording and Computing Grades Communication Opportunity for Distance
Education
18. 18. Visuals Computer software help better presentation of information.
19. 19. Recording and Computing Grades Computer hard drives and storage devices are an
excellent way to store data.
20. 20. Information Access There many websites that are useful for education. The internet is
vast source of knowledge that the teacher and students could utilize. Computers enable
 access to the Internet which has information on literally everything. Technology as intellectual
partner
21. 21. Communication Technology as a social medium to support learning by conversing
22. 22. Technology as tools to support knowledge construction Technology as information
vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning- by-constructing: Technology as context
to support learning by doing
23. 23. Proper implementation of technology in the classroom gives students more control of
their own learning and tends to move classrooms from teacher-dominated environments to
ones that are more learner-centered (Russeland Sorge, 1999)
24. 24. Thank you for listening!