Why Learn With

Technology?

Why Learn With

Technology?

What kinds of skills do students need?What kinds of skills do students need?

Lower income students use computers more often for repetitive practice,

whereas higher-income students use computers more often for more

sophisticated intellectually complex applicationsHenry Jay Becker “Who’s Wired and Who’s Not:

Children’s Access to and Use of Computer Technology” Children and Computer

Technology, Vol. 10, No. 2 Fall/Winter, 2000

Old and New Skills: Old and New Skills:

• Communicating• Communicating• Collaborating• Collaborating

• Judging• Judging

• Knowing• Knowing

New 21st Century skill:

Interpreting images and sounds in historical, scientific, aesthetic or

imaginative contexts

Old 21st Century skill:

Using images, sounds and animation effects as raw material for communication purposes

• Communicating• Communicating

New 21st Century skill:

Taking responsibility for differentiated roles and tasks

Old 21st Century skill:

Expanding the pool of collaborators to include people outside the classroom

• Collaborating• Collaborating

New 21st Century skill:

Learning coherent standards to evaluate information

Old 21st Century skill:

Applying different criteria to evaluate multiple sources of information produced for

different purposes

• Judging• Judging

New 21st Century skill:

Learning to understand a predefined canon in various disciplines via textbooks

Old 21st Century skill:

Learning how to construct knowledge from a fluid set of “building blocks” available online

• Knowing• Knowing

Equity?